Save The Mesnes

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The Mesnes (also known as the Mesnes Field) is under threat with a planning application for Wigan Council to consider. The proposals are to build a boys/girls club on the site within this conservation area.

The idea of a boys/girls is to be welcomed, as Wigan is big enough to support any such facility. Our belief is that the brownfield sites would be better used for facilities like this, rather than use our precious green environment.

The Mesnes Field is our green inheritance to be maintained as a green urban space for posterity. This piece of land is Wigan's oldest feature and it must remain so.

62 Signatures

  • Andrew Lomax
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    • More than enough empty units around town which can be transformed. Whilst their broken, fix them with this idea...
  • Mr Ian Bryant.
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    • We need safeguard vital urban green space for future generations.
  • Carol Littler
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    • Brownfield land should be used for development, not greenfield spaces
  • mark chapman
  • Stephen Nicholls
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    • Mesnes Field should be utilised as an open space for all not as a private club.
  • Neville Buchanan
    • Comments
    • This green space should be retained for recreational use. It would be great to see cricket matches played here again for instance!
  • Susan Parkinson
  • Keith Beckett
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    • Wigan is lacking in wealth creators. A less attractive town makes attracting these people more difficult. Also some of the eyesores should be demolished to make way for the proposed club.
  • Cyril Barnett
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    • This is the last large public space in the town centre and should be kept as such and not built on, remember how we lost the use of the large market square when that was built over in the 1980's.
  • Ian McLoughlin
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    • It is vital that this piece of heritage should not go the way of all the others that Wigan has lost due to the callousness of the Council and it's business partners.
  • Glyn Jones
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    • I disagree with the plans to use Mesnes Field for the proposed New Wigan Boys and Girls Club because I believe there are more suitable brown field sites in the Town Centre and just as close to transport links, given as one of the main reasons for the sitting it on Mesnes Field . Added to this I have been a frequency user of the field for the 10 or 11 years I have lived in the area whether it be walking the dog or recreational activity with the family.
  • Stewart Parr
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    • If the club was built using quality materials built using the skills of quality craftsmen to create a building with vernacular architecture that we can be proud of i would have no problems in using this site. However, i am sure the construction would not come close to these ideals!
  • Viv Croston
  • Keith Guest
  • Norman Eastham
  • Steve Halliwell
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    • Green is good
  • Brian Elsey
  • R G
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    • These people would be more respected if they were to take on some of the land and buildings lying empty and derelict in the town rather than grabbing this prime piece of land.
  • R Eden
  • Eileen Horrocks
  • mick ascroft
  • Joe Mather
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    • I don't know if I am right in assuming that Mr Whelan is the owner of this particular piece of land. Did it not come as part of the package when he bought the old grammer school? I believe that part of the terms of that sale was that as former Manse land it could not be built on. Is this meerly a way around this clause? I like many others beleive that other brown fileld sites within the borough would be better suited to this scheme than the proposed site.
  • Jack Lomax
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    • I was born in Wigan and lived there for more than 35 years. I am outraged at the proposal to build on this hertitage site
  • Kathleen Broome
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    • Why don't they use the old police station in Harrowby Street, or build on on the site of the old Town Hall, which are still central to Wigan.
  • Vicki Stephens
  • Geoff Leyland
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    • Instead of taking away green sites, Wigan should be planting trees and grass on all the current blots on the landscape such as the old town hall site. We cannot let this erosion of green sites continue.
  • Carol King
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    • hate the butchering of our town in the name of progress
  • Steve Gallagher
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    • It's green, lets build on it mentality is all the council know. Backhanders abound, the money grabbing swines.
  • John Bithell
  • Margaret Jones
  • alan hough
  • Mark Tighe
  • mary botting
  • Peter Fleetwood
  • Cora Morris
  • Ian Brown
    • Comments
    • People need open spaces and there are alternative sites. The old police station for example.
  • steven shaw
  • Margaret Burns
  • Paul G
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    • Boys and girls also need green spaces to enjoy. Buildings are more suitable elsewhere
  • thomas.gregory
  • Michael Holding
  • keith buckley
  • Shirl Andrews
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    • Lots of good but empty buildings in the town - much more practical to use one of those. Great idea, wrong location! Simplez
  • Clive Leviston
  • June Fleetwood
  • Ian Burns
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    • The club should be bulit it is great for the Young People of wigan
  • ALAN FREEMAN
  • JAMES FISH
    • Comments
    • All youth zones should be inspirational and challenging and will have:
  • Sarah White
  • Stuart Worthington