General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Mr Sedge.

I am only saying what I have read with my own eyes in the Wigan Evening Post and heard from a senior policeman, you sound like you don't believe me so all I can do is tell you the circumstances in which I came across this information.

One evening and this is getting on for ten years ago, there had been a bad accident and Scot Lane was closed, the traffic jam was horrendous I was driving in Kitt Green and the road through to Challenge way had been completed not to long before this and it was fully tarmaced with pavements and street lights and traffic had started using it, I remember myself driving through from Challenge Way and I thought, like others that we now had a new road through to Kitt Green and the motorway, but this new route was very short lived when a metal barrier and gate was put across the road, but sometimes the gate was open and you could drive through and this particular evening I went to see if it was open, when I arrived at the gate which was shut, there were several police officers there who were examining the gate and it transpired that the police were trying to find the key holder for the gate, because they wanted to open it and divert the traffic through there, and then they were discussing cutting off the padlock and were in the process of arranging this when they got a message which told them to "hang fire and don't cut the lock off" after a few minutes a "senior police officer" appeared from the Challenge Way side of the gate and told the officers that they could not open the gate and he told them that it was something to do with Dave Whelan" Heinz was not mentioned.
The policemen there were disgusted and thought that it was ridiculous that the gate could not be opened and now I notice that a large quantity of soil has been placed across the road to ensure that traffic does flow through there.

On the subject of adopting the road, if that was the case I am sure Wigan Council would have adopted that road a long time ago, if it would have meant there then being a Marsh Green bypass in place.