RESIDENTS are celebrating the completion of a series of homes projects in Leigh after “years of being surrounded by works”.
A number of new flat projects have been carried out in The Broadway over the last few years.
Last month, one of the landmark developments, which has been “ten years in the making”, was finally completed as the new homes hit the market.
The first of the 20 new homes at St Clements Gate, next to Henry Burgers, in Leigh Broadway were placed on the market by estate agents Scott and Stapleton, with a two-bedroom flat listed at £850,000.
Another development is Ace the Broadway, which SJT developments started work on in March 2023. The building works at the site are almost complete, with 50 per cent of the flats now sold, and the first commercial unit moving in in October.
Opposite is the Grand Hotel, previously transformed into a plush housing complex with 18 homes and will have a restaurant and a spa. Plans were recently submitted to reduce the number of flats from five on each of the first and second floors, instead of the originally planned six on each.
Leigh councillor Carole Mulroney believes it is time for the amount of building work to come to an end. She said: “The Grand seems to have been stalled for a while now. There always seems to be people wanting to do different things with it. But I think most people in Leigh just want it finished now, so it is not an empty building site.
“The other development, next to Henry Burgers, is already finished, and the one across the road from The Grand is almost there now. It will be nice for that area to be completed.
“Residents have suffered for some time with the amount of activity in terms of building works.”
Residents were also pleased to see the progress of the developments.
Phoebe Brown, from Leigh, said: “I think they are great. We have had The Grand forever, the other one is taking up an old factory space, so I think it is a good thing, as long as they don’t go mad.”
Another added: “It has been like living on a building site for the last six years. But it was quite dilapidated, so it is an improvement.”
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