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Housing: All new housing is to go onto brownfield land, which, in 'planner speak', is previously developed sites and back gardens. (There are minor exceptions.) The UDP draft states that brownfield sites should not be used if there is not capacity in the existing infrastructure but this is likely to be ignored in each and every small addition.
Greenbelt: The Greenbelt has not been moved in Standish, though it is planned to diminish it at Gidlow Ln., Beech Hill. Policies relaxing the normal tight greenbelt rules are defined for Kilhey Court and its grounds.
Employment: The Bradley Ln. Estate site is slightly enlarged to protect marginal areas around it from housing.
Standish Village Centre: This is being denoted a 'Town Centre' and within it a 'Principal Shopping Area'. These policies aim to keep shops as shops, 'take aways as 'take aways' and so keep housing out. The conservation area is unaffected.
Air Pollution: The M6 has been defined as an area of air pollution the fine sounding policies will have little impact because it is unlikely anyone wants to build a polluting factory or housing estate in the central reservation.
Roads: The link road from the M58 into Wigan, and beyond, is still in the UDP. It is intended, long term, to take traffic weight from places like Standish. More local roads have been defined important and worthy of 'improvement' for the general flow of traffic than in the previous UDP.
Transport: The wording of the plan is more biased toward pedestrians and cyclists than the previous plan. (It remains to be seen if this helps limit the rapidly increasing density of accesses to small 'back garden' developments.)
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