The former home of Heaton’s Bakery in Wigan will make way for a new apartment block for young people at risk of homelessness.
The three-storey tower block will provide 38-homes at an affordable rate for people aged between 16 and 25 - who are deemed at risk of becoming homeless.
Your Housing Group, who describe the Boundary Street site as a ‘Foyer facility’, run numerous other similar social housing developments.
The apartment block will allow young people to live independently, whilst being close enough to lines of support if needed. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Just a short walk from the heart of the town centre, the property would provide communal and training space ‘to encourage social interaction and to deliver key training courses to the residents’, according to developers.