39 houses set to be built on field despite hundreds of objections

Plans had been submitted to Wirral Council for 39 homes on a field off Grange Road in West Kirby but this rejected in February 2023 after objections from local residents about the plans.

The Local Plan is currently under government inspection and proposes building more than 14,000 homes on the Wirral. Crucially it doesn't involve any green belt developments and designated 48 areas in towns as protected green space. He argued the benefits of the proposal outweighed the harms, and even though the land was designated a green space, "the Council’s assertion that the LGS designations are sound and unlikely to change cannot be said with any great certainty at this stage."

He added: "The Leverhulme appeals can be clearly distinguished from the current appeal. Unlike this appeal for 39 units within the settlement, the Leverhulme appeals relate to a much larger scale of development of some 788 units on a number of green belt sites outside settlements, where the existing and proposed policy framework is different."

Cllr Jeff Green, leader of the council's Conservatives, said: “I am incredibly disappointed. I believe the case I made and the case that the local residents made at the public inquiry were very strong cases indeed.

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