There are whole swathes of the town that need clearing and replacing with more modern housing and commercial outlets. Many of them properties around Tyldesley, Revoe, Bloomfield, Central Drive and Waterloo wards are over 100 years old and up to 170 years old if I remember right? Of course it would be nice to see them replaced with an emphasis on designs that are sympathetic to their historical past. No doubt, when it does happen, we will see multi-couloured, cheap Housing Association modern day terraces that offer no aesthetic beauty or any hope of them lasting anywhere as long as the ones bulldozed, the ones on and around Tyldesley Road/Rigby Road being a prime example.