I REMEMBER many years ago when the Omega was first mooted, it was to be Warrington’s version of Silicone Valley.

Thousands of high-tech development and manufacturing jobs, sweeping vistas with manicured green space with lakes – a dream vision of Utopia with Warrington at the forefront.

Now fast forward 10 years and what have we got?

After struggling to attract any of the above, the good people of the borough are shown the abyss – for instance, the ‘Titan’ prison development – we can’t have this, let’s protest and have it stopped.

Was this ever a real possibility or merely a conditioning exercise designed for the reality that followed? Instead of the Utopia all we see as we travel the M62 is a monstrous collection of nondescript warehouses and distribution centres built by huge corporations with minimum wage jobs.

The reason these organisations build here, of course, is for our famous road distribution network.

Where are the manufacturing and high-tech jobs for our children or are we to become the warehouse capital of the UK?

Or is this the future for the entire country, low wages for most and huge profits for the few? On reflection, perhaps it would have been better to opt for the prison.

Graham Anderson
Great Sankey