Earlier this week partners from across the housing, regeneration and community sectors came together for the launch of our new Strategic Housing Partnership (SHP) in what was an important milestone for Wirral.
More local firms and entrepreneurs will continue to get fully funded, practical help to start or grow a business thanks to an extension of the Wirral’s Business Support Service through to March 2027.
Wirral is being showcased to audiences across the country this spring as part of VisitEngland’s ‘All on the North West Coast’ campaign, which is promoting some of the region’s most distinctive coastal destinations.
Earlier this week partners from across the housing, regeneration and community sectors came together for the launch of our new Strategic Housing Partnership (SHP) in what was an important milestone for Wirral.
Attracting more people into Birkenhead town centre with improved leisure and residential opportunities alongside promoting new business uses and bringing in more shoppers are key elements of the plans for improving Birkenhead’s town centre.
As well as helping attract more visitors to the town centre the ambitious plans being put forward for St Werbugh’s in Birkenhead aim to significantly increase leisure and residential opportunities.
The striking Copper Mill and Steam Yard apartment blocks at waterside residential development, Millers Quay, have reached 80% capacity just ten weeks after completion.
The £9m plus revamp of Woodside ferry terminal is underway as part of a major regeneration project to turn the area into a ‘vibrant and unique waterfront destination’.
Plans to kick-start the regeneration of a former gasworks in Birkenhead and create an urban village adjacent to the town centre have moved a step closer thanks to a massive new funding approval from Homes England.
Since reopening in Autumn 2023 following a £2.7m revamp, Bidston Sports and Activity Centre has welcomed residents in their thousands to stay active in state-of-the-art facilities - with a brand-new high specification gym and free weights area, immersive cycling studio and two cafes on offer.
The masterplans form key planning documents for the future development of large swathes of Birkenhead town centre and underpin the council’s Local Plan that focuses on a ‘brownfield first’ approach.
As the school term starts and the journeys to and from school return, more of our children will be travelling actively thanks to the efforts of Wirral schools to become Modeshift accredited.
