Birkenhead Town Centre and St Werburgh's Masterplans
The consultation has now closed, thank you for your contributions. A consultation report will be published in due course.
Have Your Say on Kickstarting Birkenhead Town Centre and St Werburgh’s Renaissance
Birkenhead residents, workers, businesses and visitors are being urged to have their say on the opportunity for a dramatic transformation of Birkenhead Town Centre and the adjoining St Werburgh’s area.
The council is seeking to maximise the prospects for the central Birkenhead area with a focus on attracting more people into the town centre and increasing leisure and residential opportunities.
As part of the Town Centre and St Werbugh’s consultation, those taking part will be asked about improving access to the area and about options to encourage visitors to spend more time in the Town Centre and St Werburgh’s areas, such as improved leisure facilities, as well as increasing residential uses.
In the short and medium-term a key aim is to see greater visitor numbers which will be driven by the relocation of the current market to the site of the former House of Fraser store, new leisure and office facilities and by attracting more shoppers.
It comes at a crucial time for Birkenhead and follows the recent submission of Wirral’s Local Plan which is focused on brownfield development for the borough. It also comes after the Birkenhead 2040 Framework which outlined the most dramatic ambitions for regenerating Birkenhead since the 1947 Town Plan.
The Town Centre and St Werburgh’s masterplans now being consulted on aim to see the town centre “rebalanced and vibrant” and its heritage assets celebrated and fully used.
To provide your thoughts on the development of the Birkenhead Town Centre and St Werburgh’s please complete the survey below.
To find out more you can also visit BirkenED's Place, 8-10 Borough Rd Pavement, Grange Precinct, Birkenhead CH41 2XX. It is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 11-5pm. Council officers and members of the design team will be available at BirkenED’s Place to speak to specifically about the Town Centre and St Werburgh's consultation between 7th and 17th December. There will be an organised walking tour of the town centre and presentation of the masterplans during this period. Please follow this link for more details.
