Groundbreaking takes place at £135m Wigan Galleries redevelopment

Ground at the £135m Galleries shopping centre redevelopment scheme has been broken this week in the heart of Wigan town centre.

Wigan Council’s strategic development partner Cityheart approved enabling works to start the redevelopment at Wigan Galleries.

Land Referencing Services

LRS were delighted to be involved in this project at the early stages.

The existing 440,000 sq ft shopping centre will be demolished to allow plans for 464 new homes to be built. In addition, a hotel and a multimedia centre with a cinema, 10-lane bowling alley and indoor mini-golf are planned as part of the project.

Appointed contractor, BCEGI has started work on site commencing with the demolition of the car park bridge.

The work is due to take 18 months in total, however, during this time once areas of the site have been demolished, new development phases will commence.

New Market Hall

The first of these phases is the New Market Hall, which is due to be delivered by 2024.

Planning for the redevelopment of the Galleries shopping centre was granted a year ago.

Warren Taylor, director of Cityheart, said: “We are fully committed to delivering this important scheme and continue to work alongside Wigan Council and local community to achieve our vision. It is exciting to see the first stage of the transformation taking place, together with the new hoardings that have been erected, it really feels like tangible progress is being made.”

A new market hall, shops and office space have also been approved. Traders will stay in their current location until the new market is completed.

Warren Taylor, director of Cityheart, said:


““We are fully committed to delivering this important scheme and continue to work alongside Wigan Council and local community to achieve our vision.

“It is exciting to see the first stage of the transformation taking place, together with the new hoardings that have been erected, it really feels like tangible progress is being made.”