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1 VOLUME 1 Wigan TOWN CENTRE >>>THE PLAN23 CONTENTSW igan Town Centre has a thriving high street, but suffers from empty voids linked with the Galleries shopping centre and declining market, and there are growing pressures on town centres to condense, diversify, and remodel themselves to ensure future is by far the largest town centre in the borough for shopping, services and employment, with over 120,000 square metres of retail floorspace, over 300,000 visitors per week and supporting about 10,000 jobs. The town hosts many significant events, such as the 10k run, food and drink festival, Christmas lights switch on, international markets, armed forces day parades, and a whole host of summer street entertainment; all of which bring tens of thousands into to centre at any one , the town also has a role to play within the wider area, as one of the sub-regional town centres within Greater Manchester: over the last few chall

6 7 02 WIGAN TODAY The Borough of Wigan has a population of 322,000 people, of which 90,000 people reside in the town of Wigan itself. Our population has

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