A CONTROVERSIAL 99-home development looks set to be given the go ahead at a council meeting tomorrow.

Residents and councillors have raised access and traffic concerns regarding the proposed 2.84-hectare development to the west of Tiverton Avenue in Hindley Green.

A petition with 119 signatures and 33 letters from residents contesting the Bellway Homes development have been sent to Wigan Council.

But the council planners have concluded in a report that the development should go ahead as proposed and will detail their findings to a Wigan Town Hall committee at 2pm tomorrow.

Residents have called for access proposals to be changed to enable vehicles to enter the new site from Corner Lane rather than by Tiverton Avenue being extended.

But planners have recommended the committee approves the application with conditions but not with altered access.

The report says: “The proposed access arrangements will create additional vehicle movements along the established cul-de-sac links in Tiverton Avenue, Taunton Avenue and Harbern Drive.

"However the increase in vehicular traffic is not envisaged to have such an impact on residential amenity to justify seeking alternative access arrangements or resisting the proposal."

New Greater Manchester mayor and former Leigh MP Andy Burnham joined councillors in raising concerns about how the development would effect traffic around Tiverton Avenue and Habern Drive.

And in July angry residents protested against Bellway Homes waggons illegally accessing a public footpath near the site.

They blockaded the normally quiet Tiverton Avenue cul-de-sac with their cars to prevent construction vehicles crossing the path.

Police were called to calm the situation down.

At the time the council admitted Bellway Homes did not have a permit to use the footpath to access the site, where it had wanted to carry out survey work.

The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework aims to allow 25,000 new homes to be built by 2035.