Peel brings forward next 1,800 Wirral Waters homes
Vittoria Studios is the latest part of the developer’s £4.5bn regeneration scheme to emerge.
Peel L&P has submitted two applications seeking permission for 1,815 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments on a plot facing Vittoria Docks.
Located within the East Float neighbourhood at Wirral Waters, Vittoria Studios is split into two elements.
The first, Vittoria Studios West, will see the delivery of 891 apartments and 28,000 sq ft of commercial space across three blocks.
The second, Vittoria Studios East, is slightly larger. It comprises another three blocks containing 924 flats and 28,000 sq ft of commercial space.
The residential proposals at Vittoria Studios East supersede earlier plans for a 400,000 sq ft office development on the site. The proposals were revised due to “market pressures”, according to a planning statement.
The six blocks, which will front the proposed Sky City element of Wirral Waters – the area earmarked for the tallest buildings within the 500-acre masterplan – will range in height from four to 15 storeys.
Existing occupiers within commercial units at Vittoria Dock are to be relocated to MEA Park, another element of the wider Wirral Waters masterplan.
Vittoria Studios is one of five new urban quarters within Wirral Waters’ East Float neighbourhood. The others are Northbank, Four Bridges, Marina View and Sky City.
The £130m Wirral Waters One, a 500-home build-to-rent development at Northbank, is now on site. This part of the masterplan is being funded by Pension Insurance Corporation.
Outline permission for Wirral Waters was granted in 2012. Once complete, the neighbourhood will feature around than 13,500 homes and more than 4m sq ft of commercial space.
Eden Planning, Re-form Landscape Architecture and HTA Architects are advising Peel L&P on its proposals for Vittoria Studios. Hydrock is providing advice on energy, sustainability and air quality.
This is much needed in order to re-populate this part of Birkenhead and regenerate the local economy, hopefully too we see some regeneration around the Woodside ferry terminal which looks a bit sad at present but has massive potential.
By Anonymous
I wonder who’s paying.
It won’t be Peel.
By Sid
Great for the Liverpool City region.
By Anonymous
Wirral Waters seems to have well over 10 years’ worth of plans for blocks of flats for which there appears to be little demand and zero commercial viability without £hundreds of millions of public money which doesn’t exist. The grant-funded 351 unit scheme with Urban Splash has already collapsed into administration after just 30 units, despite public funding. Perhaps the facts are showing that outlandish marketing, colourful pictures and public money just aren’t enough ?
By YeahRight
This in principle is a great idea but in practice it becomes a nightmare. If you know the area you will know the dock road links Wallasey to Birkenhead and Bromborough, also its the link for the Wallasey tunnel, M53 and the Ferries. So you can imagine how busy the road is now. Add in another 1800 homes and businesses and you can see where this is leading. Traffic will be crazy not to mention parking for all these homes. Spillars Mills flats down there now have parking issues with people parking on the busy road and on the verge which is supposed to be for wild flowers. Developers hardly ever sort parking and transport facilities into account when planning these things.
By You don't need to know
Just because the Urban Splash scheme has stalled it can be salvaged, anyway there were workers on site there 2 days ago so all is not lost.
As regards transport in the area, yes it does get busy but urban areas are like that, also many young flat dwellers now make use of bikes and scooters, also there are relatively nearby ferries to cross to Liverpool if needed, and with a bit of effort a local tram network could be provided based on the already existing lines and wires.
By Anonymous
Great news! I cannot see how people even think of any of this as a negative. Roads will be widened, people will have better housing to relocated to meaning a better quality of life. Birkenhead has no modern developments like this and for one of the UKs largest towns this is well needed. Redevelopment is slowly happening in Blackpool too which is the largest town by population in the UK. Cannot wait to see the whole wirral waters finished, the roads look very appealing to walk through by the college. I do not care much about cars, which wirral waters has slightly neglected but public transport should be increased to help people not rely on cars. Its a truly urban development so cars should not take priority over humans!
By Anonymous
Just looks like another oak and Eldon gardens to me
Houses are what people need not the constraints of living in high rise blocks of concrete
By Anonymous
@Anon June 10 8.16am, guess what ,some people actually want to live in flats with a waterside view and have no garden, both young and mature people , there`s tons of houses available on the Wirral for those who choose that lifestyle, eg hundreds next to Moreton station, so why be so negative ,or do you just want a boring flat landscape of suburban semis.
By Anonymous