”A backlash has begun against plans to remove large swathes of land in Wigan from the Green Belt to make way for housing and employment parks”

'Things round here are already horrendous - this will make it worse'

Residents on the march to protect their Green Belt

“Hundreds of furious people have marched round a swathe of green belt land on the border of Wigan and Salford to protest plans to release the area for housing development.”