Detailed plans have already been lodged to create another 1.1M square feet of logistics and manufacturing space at the Wingates Industrial Estate in Westhoughton.
An employment and skills statement put forward by AE Yates Civil Engineering said they aim to jobs” target=”_blank”>work with local companies and labour wherever possible.
The statement said: “The overall project involves remediation and redevelopment of predominantly undeveloped agricultural land at Wingate’s, located south of Chorley Road and west of Wimberry Hill Road, 1km northwest of Westhoughton Railway Station.
“The scope of work includes bulk earthworks with extensive cut and fill modelling, landscaping, installation of new services infrastructure, landscape bunds, attenuation ponds.”
“A majority of our employees are from the local area already and as a business our roots in Bolton are important to us.
“During the course of the Wingates project we endeavour to use local companies and labour wherever possible and feasible.”
The Harworth Group was given the go-ahead to expand the Wingates Industrial Estate, not far from Logistics North in Westhoughton, back in January 2020.
At the time the developers argued that this would help create around 1,500 jobs.
The employment and skills statement follows up from Bolton Council has heard previously about the need to prioritise “local jobs” at the site.
At a meeting in June last year council deputy leader Cllr Akhtar Zaman said that the authority’s officers were working with developers to ensure as many local jobs and apprenticeships as possible were created.
Cllr Zaman said at the time that the application had included an employment and skills strategy.
He had been responding to a question put by Cllr Arthur Price, of Westhoughton North and Hunger Hill.
Bolton Council announced on Thursday May 1 this year that the employment and skills statement had been approved.
