Taylor Wimpey in for Halsnead planning

The council has informed the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that it needs extra time to submit its long-awaited local plan, despite pledging to meet the June deadline earlier this summer.

Developer Engie Regeneration has secured consent for 266 homes across 16 acres at the former sports centre off Whitefield Drive, once tipped to house a 50,000-capacity stadium for Everton FC.  

Blackburn-based developer Mullberry Homes has moved to increase the size of its Aintree residential development by 10 units, two years after it won approval from Sefton Council for 43 homes on the 4.6-acre site. 

Stewart Milne Homes has withdrawn its application for 225 homes in Halsnead after it was recommended for refusal by the council, leaving a hybrid application from Bloor Homes and Maro for 123 homes at the same site the sole item in front of the planning committee tomorrow.

The council has signed off on a plan to build 1,500 homes on 200 acres between Halewood and Everton FC’s Finch Farm training ground. 

The Sovini Group subsidiary is building 61 homes on the site of a former primary school in Rock Ferry, having secured planning permission.

The developer expects to submit a planning application this summer to build a residential community on the former Eccleston Park Golf Club in St Helens, which closed in 2018. 

Warrington-based affordable housing provider Your Housing Group has submitted an application for 266 houses on a derelict 16-acre site off Whitefield Drive. 

Long-awaited plans to regenerate an area destroyed by a gas explosion in New Ferry in 2017 have taken a step forward as the council continues its search for a development partner.