Hoylake Neighbourhood Plan

Revised Replacement Application for Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area Re-Designation - February 2024

The Hoylake Community Planning Forum, known as 'Hoylake Vision', was last re-designated by the Council on 2 October 2018.

A revised application to re-designate the Forum for a further five years has been received.

The revised application replaces the application documents originally published by the Council on 15 December 2023 and include a more detailed plan of the geographical area proposed to be included in the Forum’s neighbourhood area.

The revised application documents listed below have been published for public comment:

A revised background note sets out the issues that must be considered by the Council before it takes its decision:

Further details about the consultation are set out in the Consultation Notice below:

Paper copies of the revised application documents can also be viewed at West Kirby Library during normal opening hours.

Comments on the revised application documents must be received by the Council at one of the addresses below, no later than 5.00pm on Friday 12 April 2024:

  • By email at forwardplanning@wirral.gov.uk
  • By post at: The Forward Planning Manager, Wirral Council, Regeneration and Place Directorate, PO Box 290, Wallasey, CH27 9FQ

Further information can also be provided at 0151 691 8235.

There will be no need to re-submit any comments that were submitted on the original application that was published by the Council on 15 December 2023 unless you wish to make additional comments on the changes that have now been proposed.

The Council will not be able to keep your name or your comments confidential. The Forward Planning Privacy Notice provides information on how your data is held and what it will be used for. View the Forward Planning Privacy Notice 

If the Council agrees to re-designate the Hoylake Community Planning Forum as the Neighbourhood Planning Forum for Hoylake, no other organisation or body may be designated for that neighbourhood area until that designation expires or is withdrawn.

Original Application for Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area Re-Designation - December 2023

The Hoylake Community Planning Forum, known as 'Hoylake Vision', was last re-designated by the Council on 2 October 2018.

An application to re-designate the Forum for a further five years has been received.

The application documents listed below have been published for public comment:

A background note sets out the issues that must be considered by the Council before it takes its decision:

Further details about the consultation are set out in the Consultation Notice below:

Paper copies of the application documents can also be viewed at West Kirby Library during normal opening hours.

Comments on the application must be received by the Council at one of the addresses below, no later than 5.00pm on Friday 09 February 2024:

  • By email at forwardplanning@wirral.gov.uk
  • By post at: The Forward Planning Manager, Forward Planning Team, Regeneration and Place, PO Box 290, Brighton Street, Wallasey, CH27 9FQ

Further information can also be provided at 0151 691 8235.

The Council will not be able to keep your name or your comments confidential. The Forward Planning Privacy Notice provides information on how your data is held and what it will be used for. View the Forward Planning Privacy Notice

Information on the Council's previous decision to re-designate the Forum in October 2018 can be viewed at Hoylake Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area Re-Designation 2018

Neighbourhood Development Plan

Wirral Council resolved to legally 'make' the Neighbourhood Development Plan for Hoylake on 19 December 2016. View the wider background to the decision.

Decisions on whether or not to grant planning permission in Hoylake will now need to be made in accordance with the Neighbourhood Development Plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.

A copy of the Council's Decision Statement and the final version of the Neighbourhood Development Plan can be viewed below:

Background

Wirral Council agreed to designate the Hoylake Community Planning Forum on 30 April 2013. The community planning forum will have a life of five years. Further information can be obtained from the Community Forum website.

The public contact for the Neighbourhood Forum is Nigel Blacow (Membership Secretary) who can be reached at membership@hoylakevision.org.uk

The Hoylake Community Planning Forum published a draft Neighbourhood Development Plan for public consultation in January 2015 and submitted their final proposals to the Council for publicity and independent examination in September 2015. The Council published the proposals for public comment in November 2015. The deadline for comments was 22 December 2015.

The draft Neighbourhood Plan and the comments received were submitted to an independent Examiner, who recommended that the plan should proceed to a local referendum, subject to a number of modifications. The Council accepted the Examiner's recommendations and the modified documents were published in September 2016.

Additional Examination Documents:

The wider background to the publication of the proposed Neighbourhood Plan can be viewed on the Democracy pages of the Council's website.

The local referendum on the Neighbourhood Development Plan for Hoylake, as modified following independent examination, took place on 01 December 2016.  86% of those who voted, voted in favour of using the plan to help decide planning applications within the Neighbourhood Area. Find out more about the results of the referendum.

The Leader of the Council (as Portfolio Holder for Strategic Economic Development, Finance and Devolution) recommended the final 'making' of the Neighbourhood Development Plan on 9 December 2016. View the wider background to the decision.