With plans for 1,700 houses – essentially a new town – on the former Horwich Loco Works site, as well as proposals for thousands more houses in the surrounding area, I believe it is important that we make sure we have the right infrastructure to support all of the new families who will be moving into our area. An application for a new school called Pearl Brook CE Primary School was turned down by the Department for Education recently because it couldn’t demonstrate enough public support for the proposal.
Those behind the application have vowed to fight on and will be reapplying soon, however they still need to show that they have the support of local people.
Do you think there should be a new school on the Loco Works site and do you want it to be faith-based? Let me know your views below and please fill in the survey on the link below: