Wigan Council has given architect Shedkm the green light to convert the authority’s brutalist former HQ into start-up space for new businesses.

Shedkm’s proposals have been worked up for developer Capital & Centric and will deliver desk space for around 300 people, as well as a coffee shop, a gym, a small cinema and a roof terrace.

Wigan Civic Centre was designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership and constructed in multiple phases, the first of which completed in the early 1970s. The five-storey, L-shaped building was vacated by the council in 2018.

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