Wirral's Local Plan 2020 to 2035

Wirral needs a Local Plan. We’ve developed three options to meet housing and employment requirements: our preference is to use only urban areas, including brownfield land.

[smarriott]

12, 000 houses - would this mean improved public transport infrastructure for example another station to service between Moreton and Meols around Mill House Lane. This has been looked at but not implemented, what are your plans for this?

[mjs]

What a load of propaganda rubbish. 'Music' irrelevant and distracting.
Having said that, nothing important was said here. We need to make habitable the many thousands of former homes; flats above shops, empty houses, empty shops (change of use required), derelict residences, single person occupancy in very large properties, abandoned former business/factory buildings/empty schools, flattened former industrial sites etc. Please: no more hairdressers, nail bars, tan studios, fast food outlets, cafes all selling overpriced 'food' or frivolous services etc.

Previous mass people movement from established inner town areas to soulless, depressing council estates from the last century 1900s onwards, (don't blame the Great War, or the WW2 Blitz) including Woodchurch, Overchurch, Leasowe, Moreton, West Kirby, Rock/New Ferry, Tranmere, Mountwood, Ford etc to former swathes of green areas which now themslves need to be demolished - was/is reckless.
Use all the above options and others by imaginative recycling current housing, brownfield areas etc - before stealing more agricultural, recreational land.
Public consultation meetings etc on Wirral has been worthless to date (eg: just say 'golf' resort, amenity closures, fire-stations, special needs schools, health provision eg), having been to numerous such events.

At school I played rugby on Noctorum RUFC fields at 14 years of age my family was about to be forcibly relocated from SM to 'the Woodchurch aka Ponderosa'. With few trade or work chances available, I left Woodchurch SM School at 15, via Woodside station
for Devon having enlisted in one of many newly formed Army Junior Leaders Regiments (Corps, Technical) as a stepping stone to establish a career platform to productive, criminal-free careers. And they were.

Returning to Wirral on retirement, I am 72, I am shocked and saddened at the poor state of half of the Borough, including filthy cracked walkways, car parks, railway lines/land, wind blown and dumped rubbish strewn almost everywhere. Take a look around you now or out of your window - static or moving, (Birkenhead town, Ford Hill for example).

It is going to take more than a Town/Borough Planner to sort it out.

[michaelgregg]

Don't need it any and soon the inspector will stop the plans