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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Edward Barnes

Huge planning application expected to be rejected with more than 1,600 opposed

A major Wirral housing plan looks set to be rejected after a long campaign by local residents and councillors.

The plan, which comes from Levehulme Estates, would see up to 290 homes built near Irby, a village in west Wirral, on what one councillor described as “some of the highest quality agricultural land in the country.”

Leverhulme said it wants to “establish neighbourhoods which are distinctively Wirral with a beautiful and bespoke character.”

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