Plans in for £60m Mosslands rebuild
Wirral Council will consider proposals to redevelop the Wallasey secondary school, a project with confirmed Department for Education backing.
Ellis Williams Architects has designed the 19-acre school redevelopment project, which will encompass adding capacity so the school can take 1,500 pupils, up from 1,100.
Willmott Dixon is lined up as contractor, Oobe is the landscape architect. The professional team also includes Mace, Tace, Plan Red, Roscoe, Flinders Chase, EVR, and Pace Consult.
The new school, which was consulted on earlier this year, will be a single mostly three-storey building with two sports halls and a replacement all-weather sports pitch, along with a multi-use games area.
The intention is that the building be delivered in stages, on the northern part of the existing Wallacre playing fields next to Mosslands.
Effectively, land is being swapped around. The school has no current sports fields of its own, and has an old sports hall. By releasing four acres of the Wallacre fields, Wirral Council will enable the school’s redevelopment; in return the school will give back 3.7 acres of secure, modern fields for use by school and community.
The development project will, in bare numbers, see a 145,808 sq ft facility replaced by one of 172,149 sq ft.
The area currently taken up by the school will, once it moves into the new building, be taken up by sports fields and parking.
Wirral Council will take forward plans for the southern part of the Wallacre independently. For now, they will be retained as sports pitches.
Mosslands, following the development, would house a 1,200-place boys school plus a 280-place mixed sixth form, with a further 24 places for pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs.
The plans can be viewed in full on Wirral Council’s planning portal with the reference APP/25/00792.
The project will mean new sports hall provision for Mosslands. Credit: planning documents
