March, 2018 | A blog about Wirral Council, Wirral Council's councillors & officers

High Court Judge quashes greenbelt planning application for 3 marquees issued in “error” by Wirral Council in 2011

**Cllr Phil Gilchrist (front) speaking at the Extraordinary meeting of Wirral Council on 4th April 2016 who chaired the Planning Committee referred to below in 2010**

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Planning Committee (Wirral Council) 22nd March 2018 Part 4 of 4 Agenda Item 14 Judicial Review Update

Last Thursday councillors at a public meeting of Wirral Council’s Planning Committee were told that the long-awaited decision in the judicial review case would be handed down soon (which can be watched in the video clip above). An oral hearing of both the permission application and the substantive judicial review were both heard on the 31st of January 2018.
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Why has Minister Sajid Javid requested a “team of experts” to intervene at Wirral Council after Wirral Council’s repeated delays in producing a Local Plan?

Photo 4 - Cllr Phil Davies answering questions Birkenhead Constituency Committee 1st March 2018 — Cllr Phil Davies answering questions at the Birkenhead Constituency Committee 1st March 2018

Edited 27.3.2018 14:32 An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated one of the other three councils facing intervention was Castlerock, this has now been corrected to Castle Point.

The latest in an exchange of letters between the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP (Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government) and Cllr Phil Davies (Leader of Wirral Council) has been published.

Wirral Council’s failure to produce a Local Plan (which are their policies by which planning applications are decided) has led to intervention. Out of the fifteen local government bodies that the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP wrote to initially (which included locally Liverpool City Council and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority) only three (Wirral Council, Castle Point Borough Council and Thanet District Council) have caused enough concern to warrant intervention.
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What will Cllr Phil Davies answer to a question about the financial risks of Hoylake Golf Resort?

Photo 4 - Cllr Phil Davies answering questions at the Birkenhead Constituency Committee public meeting (1st March 2018) — Photo 4 – Cllr Phil Davies answering questions at the Birkenhead Constituency Committee public meeting (1st March 2018)

Ed – this was edited on 20th March 2018 at 9:33 pm to include video of the questions to Cllr Phil Davies and answers given on the 19th March 2018

Tonight (19th March 2018) I will be asking at a public meeting of Wirral Council’s councillors the following question of Cllr Phil Davies about Hoylake Golf Resort:

Cllr Phil Davies has explained at a number of public meetings what he thinks the benefits of the Hoylake Golf Resort project are, could he further please explain how the financial risks (including the financial risk of Wirral Council lending the developer millions of pounds if planning permission is granted) will be both managed and mitigated please?

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What did Cllr Ian Lewis ask about a new maternity service in Seacombe due to start on the 20th March 2018 and why wasn’t the councillor for Seacombe present to hear it?

Health and Wellbeing Board (Wirral Council) 14th March 2018 update on maternity

Wednesday afternoon’s public meeting of Wirral Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board started without its Chair Cllr Phil Davies. Usually if he can’t make it, one of the other two Labour Cabinet Members on the Board (Cllr Bernie Mooney and Cllr Chris Jones) chair the meeting instead.

However they weren’t there either.
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Wallasey Constituency Committee Chair refuses to give verbal answers to many Hoylake Golf Resort questions!

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I Know Nothing! – Fawlty Towers – BBC

Cllr Bernie Mooney (Chair of Wallasey Constituency Committee) 13th March 2018

A number of people who were at last night’s public meeting of the Wallasey Constituency Committee (which can be watched below) have commented on the strange decision to have verbal answers given at Public Question Time to all questions submitted by the public except from those that were in any way related to the Hoylake Golf Resort.

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Wallasey Constituency Committee 13th March 2018 Part 1 of 2
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High Court Judge quashes greenbelt planning application for 3 marquees issued in “error” by Wirral Council in 2011

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What did Cllr Ian Lewis ask about a new maternity service in Seacombe due to start on the 20th March 2018 and why wasn’t the councillor for Seacombe present to hear it?

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