THE Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is planning big things for Tyldesley.

Firstly a 600-home development on green belt, on the old Cleworth Hall pit site.

If that goes ahead we can expect an extra 2,500 people living off the Manchester Road area, with another 1,200 cars in Tyldesley.

Additionally there is a very narrow access to the area from Peel Avenue, Cherrington Drive and Walford Avenue – all narrow 20mph limit roads unfit for heavy traffic.

We would have years of heavy building equipment, lorries, diggers and noise from large building construction sites.

All this after three years of chaos with the guided busway traffic jams, and the ordinary heavy traffic which is already slow moving for much of the day.

On top of this we have another development only three quarters of a mile away on Sale Lane near to the guided busway, where it crosses the A577 at Mossey Common Road.

Another 600 houses across to the Astley boundary, another 2,000 people and another 1,200 cars and the infrastructure cannot cope with the existing population, involving schools and hospitals.

The facilities of the town have not grown in the past 35 years and have been ground down by a Labour Council for decades.

Think of the Tyldesley Baths, Tyldesley Technical College, the guided busway fiasco and Formby Hall – the list is endless. I believe Wigan Council only exists for the people of Wigan, not Leigh or Tyldesley.

And I think the only way to effect change is to vote the council out of office and get people in who care about our town.

If everybody in Tyldesley refused to pay council tax while we are waiting, the council would go bust because it would be £25,000,000 short in a year.

Then it would have to do something.

I say that we need people power and waste of time councils out of office.

M T Colgan

Fulbrook Way

Tyldesley