Wallasey councillor condems plans to build 13 homes on grazing land

The planning application which was submitted to Wirral Council’s planning website on March 29 of this year could see houses built on grazing land bounded by Greenleas Road, Greenleas Close, Leasowe Road and the North Wallasey Approach slip road.

READ: Plans to build 13 family homes on ‘neglected site’ in Wallasey

The proposal, put forward by Eden Planning & Development Ltd for developer Starship Group Limited, is seeking to build the houses with access from the bottom of Greenleas Close, near Greenleas Primary School, a designated 'School Streets' area.

The new plans are an opportunity to create “well-designed family homes in a highly accessible and suitable location” according to a design and access statement submitted on the council’s planning site.

Plans to build 13 family homes on ‘neglected site’ in Wallasey (Image: Eden Planning & Development Ltd)

The statement added that the build would also be an opportunity to address “local housing needs” by providing “well designed affordable homes” on an otherwise “neglected site”.

The residential site would include 13 homes including six semi-detached houses, six terraced and one detached. Each three-bed property will have two parking spaces and access to a private back garden.

Following the refusal of an application in March 2023, the proposal was amended to respond to the concerns raised by local residents which included overcrowding and noise. The proposal was reduced from 17 to 14 units and then down to 13 having identified concerns for overdevelopment and overbearing impact on neighbouring occupants.

However, despite the amended plans, local councillor for Wallasey Ian Lewis, along with Greanleas Primary School and other local residents, submitted petitions against the plans.

Cllr Ian Lewis told the Globe: “Once again, we have a developer saying almost anything to obtain planning permission.

“This land is not ‘neglected’ as they now claim. It has never has been developed and is not therefore a brownfield site. 

“Since it stopped being used for grazing, it has become a wildlife haven, acting as a valuable buffer between the busy A554 on side and a primary school and homes on the other.

“Barely four weeks ago, the developer told the planning committee that their application for 14 houses was the minimum that would make the site viable.  

“Now, they have come back with a plan for 13. Well unlucky for them – they were either wrong then or they are wrong now, which is it?”