Plans unveiled for £155m Bromborough Wharf
Grammont Group and Bromborough Riverside Regeneration are teaming up to bring up to 1,200 homes to a large brownfield site off Dock Road South.
A consultation for the project, dubbed Bromborough Wharf, runs through 6 April.
The 58-acre, riverfront site currently has several derelict industrial buildings and brownfield open space on it. Grammont and Bromborough Riverside Regeneration want it to be a thriving neighbourhood with a mixture of terraced, semi-detached and detached houses.
The developers’ plans also include four-storey apartment buildings and purpose-built accommodation for older people who need access to care and support. Of the 1,200 proposed homes, 20% are set to be designated affordable.
EV charging points will be built into the eventual planning application, as well as pedestrian and cycle routes. The developers are also proposing a sponsored bus route to go through the site.
In an effort to build community and boost biodiversity, there will be landscaping done to the riverfront and a seven-acre public park will be created.
Bromborough Riverside Regeneration’s development company, Black Pearl Homes, will be working on the project. The construction of Bromborough Wharf is anticipated to take ten years and create 190 jobs.
“Bromborough Wharf will support the council’s ambition to have a brownfield first approach for new housebuilding in the Wirral and deliver a housing mix that caters for all ages and local needs,” said Black Pearl Homes director Bjorn Martenson.
“We’re looking to create a sustainable riverside community that will be a desirable place to live for generations to come,” he continued.
Nick Uzel, managing director at Grammont Group said: “This is not just about delivering new homes. Our vision for Bromborough Wharf will deliver real benefits for the local community, with a unique opportunity to support residents’ health and wellbeing by opening up a riverside space and providing a new promenade along the River Mersey.”
Cre8 Land & Planning is the planning consultant for Bromborough Wharf. GL Hearn is the masterplanner and landscape architect.
You can learn more about the project on the consultation site: bromboroughwharf.co.uk
Lucky Bromborough if this becomes reality, a really a great opportunity to develop this waterfront, and fantastic views of a live, commercial river, very much look forward to seeing this on site.
By Anonymous
An excellent proposal. The planned promenade will benefit the whole community, giving Bromborough residents direct access to the river. At the moment, I think, despite Bromborough being next to the river the only way to access the River Mersey is a mile or so walk either down to Eastham Ferry or up to the Port Sunlight River Park.
I hope more sections of the river between these two points can be made accessible in the future.
By Port Sunlight
I am concerned there is no mention of a medical centre or school. already it is almost impossible to get an appointment or get into primary school there has been lots of houses built but no new essential services
By Bromborough
The traffic onto the a41 would be terrible. With the potential for an extra 2400 cars. The a41 is a bottle neck. We don’t have enough health care facilities or schools to accomdate it? I’ve seen picture with high rise flats at least 10 stories high? We all know high rise flats are a failure of the 60s and 70s.
By Anonymous
“We all know high rise flats are a failure of the 60s and 70s”. What a weird comment. Have you ever been to any European city?
I would counter-argue that suburban sprawl is a failed experiment of the 1950s. An experiment which increased traffic congestion, tarmaced the countryside, killed wildlife, and produced endless fields of boring suburbia for people to live out painfully boring lives.
Give me a flat in a 5 storey apartment block in the heart of a city, instead of a boring house in a boring suburb with boring neighbours living boring lives any day of the week!
By Anonymous
High-rise is generally only a failure if the construction is not good, and /or if the wrong residents live in them, lots of good tenements were demolished in inner-city Liverpool not because they were poor but because many residents rejected them and then they were vandalised and stigmatised, a number of these blocks remain today and make good housing for those who choose to buy or rent them.
By Anonymous