The Leverhulme Estate has applied for planning permission to construct up to 290 new homes, as well as "sport pitches", "play areas" and "wildlife habitats" in a Wirral village.
The Leverhulme Estate, founded by Lord Leverhulme who was behind the construction of Port Sunlight, has applied to build up to 290 new homes in the village of Irby, Wirral, in an area of green belt land East of Glenwood Drive. Their planning application said, if successful, they intend to build up to 290 homes, almost a third of which will be affordable housing, as well as "green infrastructure" that includes "sports pitches, play areas and parkland, wildlife habitats and green corridors".
The proposed development at Irby is part of wider plans to bring 780 new home to the Wirral, all built on green belt land owned by the Leverhulme Estate. The wider plans were slammed by people living in the Wirral last month.
