Planning

The Town and Country Planning legislation exists to safeguard and enhance the environment, and to ensure that conflicting pressures for land use are determined with the community's best interests in mind.

The proper consideration of planning applications constitutes a significant part of the work undertaken by Wirral's planning department.

Planning News

  • The Council will be consulting on eight draft Settlement Area Policies between 30 January and 12 March 2012.  The final Settlement Area Policies will be included in a statutory land-use planning document called a Core Strategy Development Plan Document, which will be used as the basis for determining individual planning applications. Further information and a copy of the consultation documents can be viewed here.
  • The final consultation stage of the Waste Development Plan Document known as “Representations on Soundness” closed on January 20th 2012. Representations received will now be considered. More information can be found here.
  • The Planning Inspectorate website is due to close by the end of September 2011. All appeal and other casework information will now sit alongside the on-line appeals system on the Planning Portal - Planning Inspectorate pages