Plans lodged for £131m Wirral housing project
A 22.4-acre chunk of the Bromborough Wharf masterplan is to be redeveloped into 564 homes under proposals submitted by Grammont Group and Bromborough Riverside Regeneration.
The joint venture has submitted an application to build the properties on a former biofuels site off Dock Road South, the first phase of the 1,200-home project.
The £131m proposals are being brought forward by the joint venture and Bromborough Riverside’s development arm Black Pearl Homes.
A total of 96 of the 564 homes proposed in the first phase, would be assisted living flats delivered in a single six-storey block.
There will also be 244 one- to three-bedroom apartments across a further three, six-storey blocks.
As well as the apartments, the scheme features plans for 224 two-, three- and four-bedroom houses.
Grammont and Bromborough Riverside held a public consultation on the 1,200-home masterplan earlier this year.
At the time, Black Pearl Homes director Bjorn Martenson said that Bromborough Wharf “will support the council’s ambition to have a brownfield first approach for new housebuilding in Wirral and deliver a housing mix that caters for all ages and local needs.”
A second application for 622 homes on a neighbouring 33.5-acre plot is also being readied.
GL Hearn is advising the joint venture on design and Cre8 Land and Planning is the planning consultant.
To learn more about this application, search for reference number OUT/22/00957 on Wirral Council’s planning portal.
Nearby, Wirral Council lodged plans for 250 homes on the 19-acre former Ministry of Defence site off Old Hall Road in July.
More positive news for the Wirral and the city region, while bringing people to the waterfront giving views across the river.
A bit of joined up planning would allow a basic jetty and landing stage to be built so the Mersey Ferry can extend it`s services to commuters not just to central Liverpool but with further berthing facilities over at Brunswick/Otterspool, as surely this can help offset the use of cars for both work and leisure purposes.
By Anonymous
Worth noting the former MOD site is just half of a wider masterplan for circa 450 homes and both schemes are in for planning at the moment. Great to see these big schemes progressing. Hopefully it will soon result in meaningful housing delivery.
By Anonymous