Wirral lines up Hind Street land swap
The local authority wants to relocate a skip hire firm outside of the 65-acre regeneration area’s boundaries and has identified a site for the company to move to.
A2B Skip Hire is currently based at a site off Jackson Lane in Birkenhead close to the Queensway Flyovers. The site falls within the Hind Street regeneration zone, earmarked for 1,600 homes overall. The flyovers are also tipped for demolition as part of the project.
Wirral Council is working with development partner Ion to deliver the first phase of Hind Street, which comprises 655 homes and 14,000 sq ft of commercial space.
While A2B’s current site is earmarked for redevelopment in a later phase of the project, the council is keen to secure ownership of the site at an early stage.
As a result, the authority is proposing a land swap that will see it give A2B a plot off Limekiln Lane in Wallasey, 2.5 miles away from its current home, in exchange for the skip hire company’s Jackson Lane site.
The Limekiln Lane plot is much larger than the Jackson Lane site but both are valued at £200,000 due to issues such as the presence of Japanese Knotweed impacting the former, according to Wirral Council.
Sisk is due to begin the remediation of Hind Street this autumn using £52m of funding from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Homes England.
