Save Saughall Massie's Green Belt

Save Saughall Massie's Green Belt

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Our green spaces, whether in the urban areas around Wallasey, or the Green Belt around Moreton and Saughall Massie, are under threat.

For 18 years, Wirral Council failed to produce a legally-required Local Plan. A Local Plan not only shows the areas that can be developed (such as run down urban areas), it also lists those which the Council wants to protect, such as green space and Green Belt.  

Just as Wirral's draft Local Plan was about to approved, and be in force for the next 15 years, the Government announced on 30 July that they were changing the formula for calculating how many houses and flats each council should build. Instead of 14,000 in Wirral, the target rose to 35,000. This volume of new build cannot be built without using the Green Belt - there isn't enough Brownfield land in the Borough.

In an emergency council meeting we called, Councillors agreed to respond to the Government rejecting the new formula and target. Only Labour Councillors voted against our call.

While we wait for the Government's response, residents can also respond directly to the Government. It closes on 24 September 2024

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News

3,000 residents learn of Labour's broken Green Belt promise

Almost 3,000 people living near to Saughall Massie's Green Belt have started to receive letters from the local Councillors, following the news that the Government was more than doubling Wirral's housing target. There are fears that even with the regeneration the run down parts of the Borough - in B

United front to challenge Green Belt threat?

Councillors and MPs in Wirral are being urged to work together and present a ‘united front’ in response to Government proposals that would see swathes of the Borough’s Green Belt lost forever. Publication of the increased housing target for Wirral – from 14,560 to 35,100 – has been met with outrage

NEWS: Government housing target threatens Wirral Green Belt

Councillors have reacted with fury to new Government housing targets, published yesterday by the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner. Instead of aiming for 728 houses a year, as currently agreed, Wirral will, under the new target, have to build 1,755 houses a year.  The new housing target an

NEWS: Government tells Wirral to think again on Green Belt

A pledge by the new Chancellor to build on Green Belt has set alarm bells ringing in Wirral, as the Borough’s long-overdue Local Plan enters the final stages. On Monday, in her first speech since being appointed, The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves, announced that councils, including Wirral, will be instructe

NEWS: Fears for Green Belt in Wirral

Conservatives in Wirral are warning against giving Labour a blank cheque to concrete over the Borough's Green Belt.  In a briefing to The Sunday Times, Labour have announced that from ‘day one’ they would begin an all-out assault on the Green Belt. 
 

Beach gridlock breakthrough

An extraordinary meeting called to agree the next steps for Hoylake’s beach has backed calls by a majority of residents for action. A recent consultation by Wirral Council saw an overwhelming two thirds of respondents endorse removal of undergrowth and weeds from a large stretch of the beach. Coun

Local Plan takes another step forward

Following the public inquiry into Wirral's draft Local Plan, the Inspectors have now written to Wirral Council with their initial comments. Inspectors have advised that the Plan as it currently stands needs a number of changes to enable the Plan to be adopted. Some of the changes reflect the Gover

Good news for Wirral's Green Belt

Building homes on brownfield land will be turbocharged under a major shake-up to planning rules to boost house building while protecting the Green Belt.

Residents' Briefing: Wirral's Local Plan

Hearings to assess Wirral’s proposed Local Plan have now ended and, last week, Councillors met with the Council's Chief Executive, Interim Head of Planning, Director of Regeneration and the Council's barrister, Christopher Katkowski KC The Local Plan will show where various types of developmen

Confirmed! Green Belt at risk under Labour

A Labour Councillor who was elected on a promise to protect Wirral's Green Belt has quit the Party. Gail Jenkinson, elected in Greasby, Frankby and Irby in May, has resigned from Labour, following the Party's decision to water down support for protecting Green Belt and, instead, offer up large part