Taylor Wimpey plans 275 homes in Wirral
The peninsula’s Green Belt is coming under increasing pressure amid a widening gap between the supply of and demand for homes across the borough.
Volume housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has unveiled plans to construct 275 homes off Lever Causeway on a roughly 40-acre Green Belt site. The developer claims the site meets the criteria for Grey Belt.
The neighbourhood would be located in Higher Bebington, south of Prenton Golf Club. It would feature 96 affordable homes.
Marrons is advising Taylor Wimpey on the plans.
A public consultation on the proposals is now live and will run to 22 November. View the plans
Wirral Council currently has three years’ worth of housing sites to satisfy demand against a statutory target of five. In policy terms, this means that developers theoretically have a better chance of obtaining planning approval for Green Belt schemes, either from the local planning authority or the Planning Inspectorate.
Since Wirral adopted its local plan, the borough’s annual housing target has more than doubled from 800 to 1,630 units, placing pressure on sites not allocated for development in the plan, including ones located in the Green Belt.
In Heswall, Leverhulme Estate, which had plans for around 800 homes across seven Green Belt schemes rejected in 2022, has recently resubmitted plans for one of the proposals amid the changing local and national policy landscape.
