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After Liverpool City Council loses battle to develop Calderstones Park in the High Court, will Wirral Council drop the unpopular Hoylake Golf Resort project?

After Liverpool City Council loses battle to develop Calderstones Park in the High Court, will Wirral Council drop the unpopular Hoylake Golf Resort project?

After Liverpool City Council loses battle to develop Calderstones Park in the High Court, will Wirral Council drop the unpopular Hoylake Golf Resort project?

                                               

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Liverpool City Council 11th November 2015 Part 1 of 6 Fresh start for organisations on Harthill Road by Mayor Joe Anderson

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Liverpool City Council 11th November 2015 Part 2 of 6 Fresh start for organisations on Harthill Road by Mayor Joe Anderson

Mayor Joe Anderson 11th November 2015 Harthill Calderstones Park issue
Mayor Joe Anderson 11th November 2015 Harthill Calderstones Park issue

Above is a picture of and video of Mayor Joe Anderson speaking in 2015 about Liverpool City Council ’s controversial plans for housing in Liverpool in a much loved park. After two related planning permissions for the project were approved by Liverpool City Council they were then quashed with reasons given in a 27 page judgement by a High Court Judge in a judgement handed down last Friday. Liverpool Open and Green Spaces Community Interest Company brought the successful legal challenge.
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Councillors to discuss proposed Dog Control Public Spaces Protection Order after over 30,000 people sign petitions opposing it!

Councillors to discuss proposed Dog Control Public Spaces Protection Order after over 30,000 people sign petitions opposing it!

Councillors to discuss proposed Dog Control Public Spaces Protection Order after over 30,000 people sign petitions opposing it!

                                   

Cllr Anita Leech (Cabinet Member for the Environment) Wirral Council
Cllr Anita Leech (Cabinet Member for the Environment) Wirral Council

Wirral Council’s cross-party Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee meet next Tuesday evening for a special public meeting to discuss the recent consultation responses on a proposed Dog Control Public Spaces Protection Order.

Two large petitions (the first attracting 15,033 signatures) and an online petition which at the time of writing has 15,415 signatures are opposed to the changes.
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Greenbelt consultation returns to Cabinet on 17th December for further decisions

Greenbelt consultation returns to Cabinet on 17th December for further decisions

Greenbelt consultation returns to Cabinet on 17th December for further decisions

                                 

Councillor George Davies (Cabinet Member for Housing and Community Safety) and Chair of the Birkenhead Constituency Committee 28th July 2016
Councillor George Davies (Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning) 28th July 2016

The papers have been published for the long awaited special public meeting of Wirral Council’s Cabinet to discuss and make decisions on the ongoing omnishambles that is local and national policy on Wirral’s greenbelt.

I sometimes wonder if Baldrick from Blackadder has a relation who works for Wirral Council, as the Cabinet report can be summarised thus and requires a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to get your head around:
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What are the Labour Budget proposals for Wirral Council for 2019/20?

What are the Labour Budget proposals for Wirral Council for 2019/20?

What are the Labour Budget proposals for Wirral Council for 2019/20?

                                    

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Cllr Phil Davies 26th November 2018 Cabinet discussing golf
Cllr Phil Davies 26th November 2018 Cabinet discussing golf

The ancient Hundred of Wirral rests peacefully between the Dee and Mersey estuaries.

Its very crest shows a Oystercatcher upon a red sandstone rock between two sprigs of bog myrtle.
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Election Result (Wirral Council, 2018 By-election): Upton: Labour hold (Jean Robinson)

Election Result (Wirral Council, 2018 By-election): Upton: Labour hold (Jean Robinson)

Election Result (Wirral Council, 2018 By-election): Upton: Labour hold (Jean Robinson)

                           

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Ballot Box by NAS, CC-BY 3.0

Below are the results of the by-election in Upton ward in November 2018 of the election of a councillor to Wirral Council following the resignation of Matthew Patrick in October 2018. As the winner of the election was elected in a by-election, Jean Robinson serves the remainder of Matthew Patrick’s term of office and was elected as a councillor for a term of office that ends in May 2020.
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