Birkenhead’s Gaumont cinema earmarked for housing

The housebuilder has lodged a planning application for the first phase of its proposed residential community on Green Belt land near St Helens, for 186 homes east of the site.

The regeneration specialist, with affordable housing provider Your Housing Group, will start construction of a £37m residential scheme on Whitefield Drive this month.

Housebuilder Gleeson has won full approval for a 139-home scheme at the former ICI recreation club site in Weston Point.

Housebuilder Bellway has acquired Wirral Business Park in Greasby, a village in Wirral, for an undisclosed sum, enabling it to start building 127 homes on the site. 

A full planning application for Taylor Wimpey’s 337 homes at Halsnead Garden Village, Whiston, has been registered by Knowsley Council.

The council has informed the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that it needs extra time to submit its long-awaited local plan, despite pledging to meet the June deadline earlier this summer.

Developer Engie Regeneration has secured consent for 266 homes across 16 acres at the former sports centre off Whitefield Drive, once tipped to house a 50,000-capacity stadium for Everton FC.  

Blackburn-based developer Mullberry Homes has moved to increase the size of its Aintree residential development by 10 units, two years after it won approval from Sefton Council for 43 homes on the 4.6-acre site. 

Stewart Milne Homes has withdrawn its application for 225 homes in Halsnead after it was recommended for refusal by the council, leaving a hybrid application from Bloor Homes and Maro for 123 homes at the same site the sole item in front of the planning committee tomorrow.