Thank you to Sajid Javid for taking the time to visit Horwich Loco Works - and to members of Horwich First for taking us round.
Brownfield sites like the Loco Works are the sorts of places where we should be building, but I'm not convinced that Bolton Council have a plan for the development and certainly not for the infrastructure and services that need to be built. Traffic on Chorley New Road is already very bad and the last time the Council talked about building a new school, they suggested it should be built on the old asbestos tip, before deciding it would be better to expand existing schools elsewhere - thus creating even more congestion. This is going to be a massive development for our town and I'm grateful to the Secretary of State for taking the time to hear our concerns.