Cleveland Street Masterplan

Wirral Council has set out an ambitious vision to turn the Cleveland Street area into a family-friendly neighbourhood. In recent months the council have been working with a design team including Maccreanor Lavington, Landscape Projects and Useful Projects to develop a vision for the neighbourhood. It is important that we hear your views at this early stage about the proposals for this new neighbourhood.

The emerging Local Plan and the Birkenhead 2040 Framework have informed plans for Cleveland Street area. The key driver behind the development is the ambition to create a new, high quality family neighbourhood located near all the services and facilities that residents need. The Local Plan sets out the aspirations to build approximately 1,025 homes and create “a new high-quality residential led mixed-use neighbourhood with new public open space, a primary school and various public realm and building improvements.” The plans for the Hamilton Park Regeneration Area, which includes Cleveland Street neighbourhood, are shaped by these commitments.

Map of Cleveland Street Neighbourhood Masterplan area

The neighbourhood is located south of the Wirral Waters development and north of Birkenhead Park. This location will see the new neighbourhood added to the existing residential community at Hamilton Park and connected to the new proposed Vittoria Studios apartment development.

What do the proposals include?

Homes

• A new neighbourhood for people to live, with 1025 new homes proposed.

• Approximately half of new homes to be houses or maisonettes

• Up to 60% of all homes will be family size, with three or more bedrooms

Access

• Reducing the need to drive, by improving options for walking, cycling and public transport

• Fostering a 15-minute neighbourhood with local services on the doorstep

• Improving the links between the neighbourhood, the Docks, Birkenhead Park, and Birkenhead Town Centre

Business and workplaces

• Retaining employment uses that can coexist with homes

• Creating new employment spaces on the ground floors of residential buildings

Community

• Building a new primary school

• Transforming Duke Street into West Birkenhead’s high street

• Providing new neighbourhood park

Environment and sustainability

• Designing a highly sustainable neighbourhood, designed to for climate change

• Embedding green, biodiverse, edible, playable and flood-resistant open space

• Designed to make it easier for people to reduce their energy use

• Putting systems in place to retain and reuse resources where possible, such as materials, energy, and water.

To provide your feedback please complete the survey below.

Wirral Council has set out an ambitious vision to turn the Cleveland Street area into a family-friendly neighbourhood. In recent months the council have been working with a design team including Maccreanor Lavington, Landscape Projects and Useful Projects to develop a vision for the neighbourhood. It is important that we hear your views at this early stage about the proposals for this new neighbourhood.

The emerging Local Plan and the Birkenhead 2040 Framework have informed plans for Cleveland Street area. The key driver behind the development is the ambition to create a new, high quality family neighbourhood located near all the services and facilities that residents need. The Local Plan sets out the aspirations to build approximately 1,025 homes and create “a new high-quality residential led mixed-use neighbourhood with new public open space, a primary school and various public realm and building improvements.” The plans for the Hamilton Park Regeneration Area, which includes Cleveland Street neighbourhood, are shaped by these commitments.

Map of Cleveland Street Neighbourhood Masterplan area

The neighbourhood is located south of the Wirral Waters development and north of Birkenhead Park. This location will see the new neighbourhood added to the existing residential community at Hamilton Park and connected to the new proposed Vittoria Studios apartment development.

What do the proposals include?

Homes

• A new neighbourhood for people to live, with 1025 new homes proposed.

• Approximately half of new homes to be houses or maisonettes

• Up to 60% of all homes will be family size, with three or more bedrooms

Access

• Reducing the need to drive, by improving options for walking, cycling and public transport

• Fostering a 15-minute neighbourhood with local services on the doorstep

• Improving the links between the neighbourhood, the Docks, Birkenhead Park, and Birkenhead Town Centre

Business and workplaces

• Retaining employment uses that can coexist with homes

• Creating new employment spaces on the ground floors of residential buildings

Community

• Building a new primary school

• Transforming Duke Street into West Birkenhead’s high street

• Providing new neighbourhood park

Environment and sustainability

• Designing a highly sustainable neighbourhood, designed to for climate change

• Embedding green, biodiverse, edible, playable and flood-resistant open space

• Designed to make it easier for people to reduce their energy use

• Putting systems in place to retain and reuse resources where possible, such as materials, energy, and water.

To provide your feedback please complete the survey below.

Page last updated: 02 Aug 2023, 11:32 AM