Plans in for Wallasey retirement flats

Leader of the council Cllr Pat Hackett has promised its upcoming Local Plan will feature no Green Belt release, in a pledge that backtracks from previous proposals to allocate nearly 50 sites for development.

Anwyl Homes has hired Shaun Sumner from Redrow as construction director in its Lancashire division, which also covers Merseyside. 

Bellway is set to secure planning consent to build 127 homes on a now-vacant plot at Wirral Business Park.

Proposals for 236 houses and a 100-bed care home will head to committee next week with the council pushing forward the scheme “to avoid the planning process being blamed” for construction delays.

Mulbury and Magenta Living are in line to secure consent for the 19-acre site after more than halving housing numbers to 243.

The housebuilder has advanced plans for 162 homes within the wider East Halewood masterplan on a site currently used by the Liverpool branch of the RSPCA, and home to the grave of Blackie the War Horse.

The joint venture developers looking to regenerate the Cowley Hill Works site are to finalise a draft masterplan following a “positive” first round of consultation.

Sefton Council’s housing company Sandway Homes is set to secure consent for its latest development, due to feature 30 homes outside Southport.