HAVING READ your recent articles on the proposed "super estate in Westhoughton", I wish to make the following comments:

WESTHOUGHTON is once again being targeted for the building of new homes at the expense of green belt land and the environment in general

THESE homes, plus the buildings on the new industrial estate, are likely to produce an extra 2,000 vehicles attempting to enter the traffic flow (each day at peak times), at the Chequerbent roundabout.

THE proposed bypass will not carry the amount of traffic that travels along Park Road, Westhoughton, and, therefore the residents of Park Road will not benefit from a real reduction in traffic.

THE combination of the traffic from the proposed bypass, together with the traffic travelling on Park Road, will create gridlock on the A6 and Snydle Way.

WHIILE the population of Westhoughton will increase with the building of this estate, I can't envisage that this increase in the population will benefit the shopkeepers in Westhoughton as residents will have no direct access from the proposed 'super estate' into the centre of the town, except by way of the Chequerbent roundabout

I do not believe that the proposed mini-supermarket in the centre of the new estate would be a viable proposition. People will still use the big supermarkets and the out-of-town hypermarkets.

I wish to register my full support for the people of Westhoughton who are in total opposition to this development going ahead.

Barbara Ramsden

A very concerned resident.

Mill Street, Westhoughton

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