There are 69 sites of biological importance in Wirral.
These locally designated sites are protected through the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) process under UDP Policy NC5.
The schedule of sites of biological importance is a material consideration in the determination of individual planning applications.
Since the adoption of the UDP in 2000 the sites have continued to be surveyed, initially by Wirral Wildlife, with the assistance of other specialist wildlife groups, and more recently by the Wirral Local Wildlife Sites Partnership.
This has resulted in two formal revisions to the schedule of sites of biological importance in 2011 and 2017 to reflect current ecological value.
The latest schedule, a summary of the changes since 2000 and the reports of each review can be viewed below:
Site Plans
- 1 Royal Liverpool Golf Course, Hoylake
- 2 Grange Hill, West Kirby
- 3 Caldy Hill, West Kirby
- 4 Stapledon Wood, West Kirby
- 5 Newton Common, West Kirby
- 6 Caldy Golf Course
- 7 Caldy Hospital Grounds
- 9 Irby Quarry
- 11 Harrock Wood, Irby
- 12 Backford Road Pond, Irby
- 13 Royden Park, Frankby
- 15 Wirral Way (Caldy to Heswall)
- 16 Wirral Way (Heswall to Borough Boundary)
- 18 The Dungeon, Thurstaston
- 19 Piper's Lane, Heswall
- 20 Quarry Road East, Heswall
- 21 Heswall Beacons
- 22 Wittering Lane, Heswall
- 23 Bush Way, Heswall
- 24 Gayton Wood
- 25 Gayton Hall Wood
- 28 Benty Heath Lane Ponds, Raby
- 29 Willaston Copse, Raby
- 30 Barnston Dale
- 31 Murrayfield Hospital, Thingwall
- 32 Manor Wood, Thornton Hough
- 33 Thornton Hough Ponds
- 34 Stanley Wood, Storeton
- 36 Arrowe Park
- 37 Limbo Lane Pond, Irby
- 38 Arrowe Brook Farm Ponds, Greasby
- 39 Greasby Copse and Ponds
- 40 Storeton Wood, Higher Bebington
- 41 Old Sewage Works, Clatterbridge
- 42 Thornton Common
- 43 Raby Mere
- 44 The Marfords, Brookhurst
- 45 Bromborough Golf Course Ponds
- 46 Hargrave House Farm Ponds, Brookhurst
- 47 Plymyard Dale, Brookhurst
- 48 Lowfields, Eastham
- 49 Holm Hill, West Kirby
- 50 Eastham Woods
- 51 Old Hall Road Woods, Bromborough
- 53 New Ferry Butterfly Park
- 55 Burrell Road, Prenton
- 56 Wirral Ladies Golf Course, Noctorum
- 57 Bidston Hill
- 59a Wallasey Golf Course
- 59b Leasowe Gun Site
- 60 Old Birket, Leasowe
- 61 Leasowe Reedmarsh
- 62 Bidston Marsh
- 63 Sandbrook Lane Pond, Upton
- 64 Paulsfield Drive Woodland, Overchurch
- 65 Overchurch Park Woodland, Upton
- 66 Leasowe Common
- 67 Meols Field
- 68 Pasture Farm Ponds, Moreton
- 69 Upton Bridge Wood
- 70 Colley's Farm, Thurstaston
- 71 Prenton Dell and Claypit
- 72 Former RAF Camp, Greasby
- 73 Lower Heath Wood, Thingwall
- 74 Tom's Paddock, Clatterbridge
- 76 Former Hotel Victoria, Lower Heswall
- 77 Manor Farm, Frankby
- 78 Heswall Fields
- 79 Frankby Cemetery