Township Forums are the local element of Wigan Borough Partnership and contribute to the delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement
The Town of Wigan is split into two Townships, Wigan North and Wigan South. Wigan North contains the Town Centre and the areas of Beech Hill, Springfield, Swinley, Scholes and Ince.
Wigan North covers an area including the electoral Wards of Wigan Central, Wigan West and Ince, and covers the areas of Ince-in-Makerfield, Scholes, Springfield, Beech Hill and Swinley. The Township also contains Wigan Town Centre. It is bordered by the Wigan South Township, on the other side of the North Western railway line to the south, Standish, Aspull Shevington Township to the north and Hindley Abram Township to the east and is right at the heart of the Wigan borough. At the centre of the Township are the Town Hall, both Wigan Wallgate and Wigan North Western railways stations, Wigan Infirmary and the Pagefield and Parson’s Walk sites of Wigan and Leigh College as well as the Grand Aracade and Galleries shopping centres. The main Wigan Life ‘hub’, the Wigan Life Centre, will also be based in this Township with sites at either side of the Town Hall.
Wigan North Health Profile
Health profile of Wigan North Township (.pdf, 170kb).
Wigan North Area Profile
To see how Wigan North compares to the other nine Townships, see the Township Key Indicator Index (.pdf, 26kb), which ranks all ten Townships according to a range of key indicators. Wigan North's specific performance can be seen in more depth from the Township Key Indicator Spine Chart (.pdf, 9kb). Wigan North's Key Indicator Profile Report (external link) contains the actual figures for each of the Key Indicators contained in the Index and Spine Chart.
Place Survey
The Place Survey is a bi-anuual national survey undertaken by every local authority in the country. It asks residents about many different issues including how they feel about their local area, the services they receive and about local issues such as anti-social behaviour, litter and transport. A Place Survey Presentation (.pdf, 38kb) highlighting local findings has been created for each of Wigan's ten Townships.
WISDOM
For more statistics and information on this and other Townships, WISDOM (Wigan's Information System of Dynamic Online Maps) provides you with easy access to local statistics and intelligence about each of the 10 Townships in the borough, as well as other geographies.
