The Wigan Pier scheme comprises 55,000 sq ft office space, events and commercial spaces for food and beverage outlets, as well as leisure, retail, and community facilities.
The buildings also have great potential for performance, workshop and exhibition spaces delivered by cultural organisations.
‘Wigan Pier’ was made famous by author George Orwell, whose 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier is regarded as a classic account of working-class Northern life. ‘The original ‘Pier’ was the humorous local description of a coal loading jetty.
One of the key buildings is the 18th century Gibson’s Warehouse, re-built in 1984 as The Orwell at Wigan Pier, located on the canal side near the former Wigan Terminus Warehouses which were built in 1777 and refurbished in the 1980s.
After Covid caused delays, work re-started late 2022 on Pier 2 and 3 (the old Orwell building and education centre) as multi-event space, and work recently started on Pier 4 and 5, which will be used for temporary events.
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