Supplementary planning documents

Supplementary planning documents provide additional information on the detailed application of development plan policies to help land owners and developers prepare acceptable planning applications. They are material considerations for planning decisions.

Four supplementary planning documents have been adopted. The Council’s Economy, Regeneration and Housing Committee at its meeting on the 17th June 2025, resolved that four Supplementary Planning Documents should be retained with additional explanatory notes identifying the parts of the document that have been superseded and will no longer be applied, following the adoption of the Wirral Local Plan on the 31st March 2025.

Supplementary Planning Guidance notes

The Council’s Economy, Regeneration and Housing Committee at its meeting on the 17th June 2025, resolved that the following Supplementary Planning Guidance notes should be retained as interim guidance following the adoption of the Wirral Local Plan on the 31st March 2025.  Where required, additional explanatory notes identify the parts of the document that have been superseded and will no longer be applied.

Withdrawal of Supplementary Planning Guidance notes

Further to the decision of the Economy Regeneration and Housing Committee at its meeting of 17th June 2025 (minute 6 refers), all remaining Supplementary Planning Guidance notes (other than those listed above) have been withdrawn by the Council and will now no longer form part of the Council’s consideration of decisions on planning applications.   The withdrawn supplementary planning guidance notes are listed below.

Withdrawn Supplementary Planning Guidance Notes
Number Title 
SPG1 Commercial Development
SPG2 Noctorum Ridge Guidelines
SPG3 Mountwood Guidelines
SPG4 Meols Drive Guidelines
SPG5 Stanley Road/Kings Gap Guidelines
SPG6 Gayton Guidelines
SPG7 Gleneagles Park Guidelines
SPG8 Caldy Village Guidelines
SPG9 Sheltered Housing and Residential Care Homes
SPG12 Pre School Child Day Care
SPG13 Self-Contained Flat Conversions
SPG14 Residential Roads and Footpaths
SPG15 Conversion of Agricultural Buildings in the Green Belt
SPG16 Landscaping
SPG17 Trees
SPG18 Bidston Village Conservation Area 
SPG20 Birkenhead Park Conservation Area 
SPG21 Oxton Village Conservation Area 
SPG22 Rock Park Conservation Area 
SPG24 Eastham Village Conservation Area 
SPG25 Caldy Conservation Area 
SPG26 Frankby Conservation Area 
SPG27 Gayton Conservation Area 
SPG28 Heswall Lower Village Conservation Area 
SPG29 Thornton Hough Conservation Area 
SPG30 West Kirby Old Village Conservation Area 
SPG31 Saughall Massie Conservation Area 
SPG32 Wellington Road Conservation Area 
SPG33 Thurstaston Conservation Area 
SPG34 Bromborough Village Conservation Area 
SPG35 Barnston Village Conservation Area 
SPG36 Bromborough Pool Conservation Area 
SPG37 Flaybrick Cemetery Conservation Area 
SPG38 Unscheduled Archaeological Remains
SPG39 Sites of Local Importance for Nature Conservation
SPG40 Sites of Local Importance for Earth Science Conservation
SPG41 Car Parking
SPG42 Providing for Cyclists
SPG44 Waste Disposal – Evaluation of Potential Landfill Sites
SPG45 Environmental Assessment
SPG46 Guidelines for Six-Sheet Adverts
SPG47 Planning Out Crime

The reasons for these decisions are set out in Appendix 2 of the Report to the of the Economy, Regeneration and Housing Committee - 17th June 2025 (item 6 refers).

Following the withdrawal of the above documents, Wirral Council will cease to make any physical or digital copies of the documents available on its website and will remove them from its offices and public libraries. A notice to the effect will be placed in the local press and in all public libraries, and is available to view below: