It’s far from "flaming June" in Farnworth as light drizzle breaks through the overcast Monday afternoon skies. The second largest town in the borough has a smattering of shoppers on Market Street but its a huge, under construction new housing, retail and leisure development which dominates the skyline. Developers Capital & Centric say the Farnworth Green project is "a re-boot of the outdated precinct into a town centre neighbourhood".
The Farnworth Green development is set to be completed later this year Due to open before the end of 2024, Farnworth Green will have 85 one and two bedroom flats and 12 family homes, 20,000sq/ft of space for bars, cafés and independent stores, a ground floor community hub and a new public square. Boundary changes ahead of the July 4 General Election mean Farnworth is in the newly named constituency of Bolton South and Walkden. It includes the Bolton wards of Farnworth North, Farnworth South, Great Lever, Kearsley, Queens Park and Central (part), Rumworth (nearly all) and a very small part of Hulton along with the City of Salford wards of Little Hulton, Walkden North and Walkden South.
Yasmin Qureshi has been the Labour MP for the previously named Bolton South East area since 2010. Other declared candidates standing for the parliamentary seat are Mohammed Afzal (Conservative), Gemma-Jane Bowker (Lib Dem), Jack Khan (Workers Party), Philip Kochitty (Green) and Julie Pattison (Reform). One of the features of politics in the town has been the su.
