Wirral to green-light £130m Bromborough homes
Plans from Grammont Group and Black Pearl Homes to redevelop a former biofuels site off Dock Road South into 975 homes are in line for approval next week.
The joint venture submitted separate applications to build the homes in 2022.
Grammont controls a site earmarked for 564 homes while Black Pearl, through an SPV, controls a site designated for another 377.
Grammont’s scheme comprises 400 two-, three-, and four-bedroom houses and 198 one- and two-bed apartments. It would be built on a 35.5-acre portion of the site.
Black Pearl’s project would deliver 265 two-, three-, and four-bedroom houses and 112 one- and two-bedroom apartments. This part of the scheme was originally going to be much larger but has been reduced by around 200 units since plans were first lodged. The homes would be constructed on 22.4 acres of the wider plot.
The two developments would provide a total of six affordable homes, well below the 20% set out in council policy. This is due to viability constraints, which will be retested at a later date to see if more affordable homes can be delivered.
Wirral Council has recommended the projects should be approved, subject to final sign off by the secretary of state.
GL Hearn is advising the developers on design and Cre8 Land and Planning is the planning consultant for both projects.
To learn more about these applications search for reference numbers OUT/22/00957 and OUT/22/00956 on Wirral Council’s planning portal.
Only 6 affordable homes!
By Anonymous
So it’s profit before provision
By Anonymous
if only there were better and more playgrounds and some more exciting architecture thrown in and what about primary school? is everybody expected to drive to port sunlight ? Come on, you can do better and aim for excellence next to two listed villages : Price and Port Sunlight. Less lazy computer plotting more imagination and vision
By Anonymous
Stuck in planning for over 2 years? Did the applicants submit prematurely with a half-baked submission, or was this down to poor management by Wirral Council’s planning department? Surely a development of this scale had some pre-application discussions to iron out anything prior to submission?
By Anonymous
Surely if having affordable homes is one of the main goals, we shouldn’t be wasting this opportunity by approving a project which does NOT meet the goals. Where are there 1000+ new people going to register for a dentist/GP/school? How will the roads handle extra 1000 cars? Maximise green spaces which at least have some evidence behind them for supporting better mental health. Focus on quality over quantity.
By Anonymous
Wirral Council do not have the local community at the heart of any point. 6 social housing homes is a poor at best and negligence at worst. Put a third party company’s profit over the people who the council are supose to be supporting. It will be very interesting to see what else has been agreed in section 106.
By Mike
Where is the infrastructure upgrade. The roads in this area where for low volume industrial/light commercial traffic. We now have this housing project, bromborough pool housing project and the old hall/riverside housing project all within a short distance of each other. At the centre of this is the croft shopping area and commercial estate. How are these roads expected to take the traffic. Imagine the traffic at school run times as there are no nearby schools.
By Anonymous
6 Affordable homes isn’t good enough for a development of this magnitude
By Anonymous
Design choices aside it’s really good to see this long neglected brownfield site recycled, with good public riverside access. If we want more recycling of brownfield the trade is things like ‘affordable housing’, let the govt pay for that!
By DenSity
For such a prominent waterfront site the design quality is hugely disappointing.
By Anonymous
Do any of the people commenting on a website for property news understand how affordable housing provision works? The developer effectively subsidies the affordable housing. If the economics of the development don’t allow more than 6 affordable homes there is little the council can do – other than refuse the whole development and lose the benefit of hundreds of new homes.
By Brero