A blog about Wirral Council, Wirral Council's councillors & officers
A blog about Wirral Council's public meetings, Wirral Council's councillors, Bidston & St. James ward and other public bodies on Merseyside
Hundreds protest about climate change and greenspaces before, during and after Liverpool City Region Combined Authority meeting
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After consultation government proposes to use higher 803 Local Plan figure for new households on the Wirral but insists it isn’t a “target”
Last year, the Office of National Statistics published new figures which changed the household projections for the Wirral Council’s Local Plan from 803 a year to 477 a year. The difference being around 226 households a year.
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Why is the Minister directing how Wirral Council prepares its Local Plan and what are councillors doing?
Councillors on Wirral Council’s Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee will meet again (which is their third public meeting within a month) on Thursday afternoon to decide on a call-in regarding the last decision by Cabinet before Christmas last year on the Local Plan.
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Councillors “call-in” Wirral Council Cabinet decision on controversial Local Plan for further scrutiny
Councillors on Wirral Council have “called-in” a Cabinet decision made just before Christmas (17th December 2018) about the controversial Local Plan.
Video of the Cabinet meeting starting at the point where the Local Plan is discussed is below.
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Wirral Council planning application dispute involving 3 marquees in greenbelt listed for Court of Appeal hearing in March 2019
Later this year (floating dates of either the 5th March 2019 or 6th March 2019 have been set) there will be a Court of Appeal hearing (estimated at 5 hours long) in London about a Wirral Council planning application decision involving three marquees at Thornton Manor in Wirral’s greenbelt.
The appeal to the Court of Appeal is from an order last year of Mr Justice Kerr ([2018] EWHC 560 (Admin)) dated 23rd March 2018 that quashed the planning permission that had been issued without conditions. This followed a hearing at the Administrative Court in Manchester on the 31st January 2018.
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