Eckersley Mill

Plans for Eckersley Mill to be transformed into hotel and apartments

A historical mill could be redeveloped into more than 800 apartments and a 120 bedroom hotel.

Plans have been submitted for Mill 2 in the Eckersley Mill complex in Wigan.

Planning permissions for Mill 1 to be converted into a leisure facility with a food hall and office space and for Mill 3 to be transformed into 137 apartments have already been granted.

Wigan Borough Council will make a decision on the Mill 2 application at a later date.

This latest application by the Heaton Group means all three of the former cotton mills at the Grade II-listed site, originally built between 1883 and 1920, could be redeveloped.

Proposals for Mill 2 include plans to demolish parts of the site, including the former welfare building and the reeling room, and to build a "residential senior living area" with private gardens.




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A very ambitious project indeed that will need some serious investment if it's ever to see the light of day as Eckersley Mill was in a shocking state structurally when I worked on the conversion of some of the lower units of Mill 2 into what became Pooles Bakery and later Galloways as an apprentice brickie back in 1991.

Internally it wasn't much better either although I remember us busting open a mysterious locked Victorian style door that had been hidden behind a stud wall we had taken down and nobody knew about that eventually led into what had been the mills Engine Hall which was beautifully tiled inside with many high arches where various parts of the engine had been housed and the cables had once ran.

It’ll be fantastic if some of the buildings can be redeveloped as proposed.

Residential living with garden suits me 

“Let’s have a proper long look at what’s going on at Eckersley Mill!” Wigan Watch 8/9/23 (from 7:12)

jo anne wrote:“Let’s have a proper long look at what’s going on at Eckersley Mill!” Wigan Watch 8/9/23 (from 7:12)

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