General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Before Martland Park was developed, Walthew House Lane was nothing more than a dirt track and certainly not suitable for motor vehicles and after Martland Park was built it was a senior policeman who told me that Dave Whelan had stopped that road being used has a cut through to Spring Road and thus providing a bypass for Marsh Green and it was also in the local newspapers at the time, that Dave Whelan had said that he would only allow that road to be used if it was part of another road which was proposed which would have seen Miry Lane extended to Scot Lane and then up Challenge Way past the JJB Warehouses and across Spring Road and across the fields coming out opposite the motorway access road at Orrell, thus providing another route to the M6 from Wigan Town Centre.
It probably did not get the go ahead because to sounded to sensible to the Wigan Council Highways Deparment.

And in the case of the road from Stadium Way to Newtown, it was in the papers when it was completed that Dave Whelan said the road could only be opened amd used on match days only.