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PeterP

On about property and infrastructure, 40yrs ago Worsley Mesnes was at it's peak in property numbers, there was the high density council estate and some private house building had been done in the vicinity of the council estate, and I am not talking about the Worsley Mesnes boundary which adjoins Hawkley Hall, I am talking about the area in between Warrington Road and Poolstock Lane, boundaried by Poolstock Brook and the railway line and Smithy Brook, and I say 40yrs, that being back to 1983, because they stated to demolish the Worsley Mesnes council estate in 1984, before the concrete was even dry from the construction of it in the 1960s and 70s

The council estate had literally thousands of dwellings on Worsley Mesnes, houses, bedsits, flats, maisonettes, high rise flats, sheltered accommodation, shops and a pub, club and a GP surgery, the only thing it lacked was a jail, and apart from the houses, just about everything else has gone, and the flats which remain are going to be demolished at some time in the future, and the council told me at an open day public consultation event, that over time they would like the houses to be replaced with super efficient houses, of the same type which have been built in Durham Street in Whelley.

But as regards the old Pemberton Collieries site, which is only across Warrington Road from Worsley Mesnes, that now has hundreds of new houses on it, so that is going to be a strain on the local infrastructure, as regards, GP, dentists, schools etc, they only thing is that around here, the road situation is lot better with the opening of the new road, but in somewhere like Ince, where they are going to build hundreds of new houses, on a already congested road system, I dread to think what is going to happen to Ince in the coming years infrastructure wise.