{"id":124562,"date":"2025-09-09T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124562\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:42:14","slug":"youve-got-to-feel-for-the-residents-no-one-wants-to-be-living-next-to-this-monstrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124562\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You\u2019ve got to feel for the residents – no one wants to be living next to this monstrosity’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents say they can’t sell their homes due to the ‘cruise liner’ warehouse overshadowing them\"TheThe towering steel structure imposes itself over the semi-detached homes in Wigan(Image: Image from the MEN)<\/p>\n

One of the councillors who opposed the \u2018cruise liner\u2019 warehouses overshadowing hundreds of homes in Tyldesley has called for a \u2018robust change\u2019 to the planning system following the outrage of local residents.<\/p>\n

Independent Coun James Fish was standing on the Henfold Estate in front of one of partially built warehouses called for the Government and local council officials to \u2018start getting into the real world\u2019 when it comes to deciding whether planning applications should be approved or not.<\/p>\n

A major gripe of the residents, as well as Coun Fish and his colleague Coun Stuart Gerrard, is that the effect a development has on the value of property nearby is not considered relevant in planning law.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIf committees and officers are being told not to consider the potential of households losing the value of their homes, then we need to start getting into the real world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve got residents here who can\u2019t sell their houses. We\u2019ve got householders having to remortgage. We\u2019ve got one particular resident who\u2019s had to remortgage his house and pay Wigan<\/a> council \u00a363,000 because of shared ownership.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if he tries to sell his house, he\u2019s already \u00a363,000 out of pocket. He\u2019s got two young children. It\u2019s just not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CounCoun James Fish, Independent<\/p>\n

Coun Fish also believes planning officers\u2019 recommendations – for approval or refusal of applications – should be removed.<\/p>\n

He went on: \u201cCommittees should make a decision without a recommendation, because nine times out of 10 they will go along with the recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coun Fish said there needs to be [a greater] radius for residents living near a site to be notified and that members of the planning committee should visit all major applications.<\/p>\n

The towering steel structure imposes itself over the semi-detached homes in Wigan. Families living in the shadow of an enormous warehouse say it feels like a “cruise ship” has landed in their back garden in Tyldesley, Wigan. The colossal steel frame, which is part of a 350,000 sq ft industrial site, looms over fences and hedges, dwarfing homes that stand just metres from the development<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no site visit here,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a request put in for a particular site visit, but the response was that no site visit was needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Stuart [Gerrard] speak regularly. We both share the same argument that this should never have been approved. We both objected to it and gave our reasons why.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main objection was the height of the buildings – 18.5 metres (60ft) – it doesn\u2019t take a genius to work that out on a piece of paper -that it\u2019s twice the size of a particular house.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe towering steel structure imposes itself over the semi-detached homes in Wigan(Image: SWNS)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother was close proximity to particular houses, again. We raised light pollution, noise pollution, traffic. There\u2019s a massive, long list.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, officers just came back and said all the relevant authorities had been asked for their input, they didn\u2019t have any objections, so there was no reason not to approve the application.<\/p>\n

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\u201cQuite a few of my colleagues on the planning committee just didn\u2019t ask the right questions for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to feel for the residents because no one wants to be living next to this monstrosity. It\u2019s just ridiculous in scale. No one wants to live next door to something this size.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents say they can’t sell their homes due to the ‘cruise liner’ warehouse overshadowing themThe towering steel structure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,39599,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-124562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-tyldesley","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}