Wirral Council and ION Developments have signed a Grasp Improvement Settlement setting the framework for the ten–15 12 months regeneration, which varieties a centrepiece of the borough’s brownfield-first technique.
Huge former fuel works website at Hind Avenue will probably be remodeled
A funding bundle – made up of £29.8m from Properties England and £22.4m from the Liverpool Metropolis Area Mixed Authority – will probably be used to ship main remediation and new infrastructure works wanted to unlock the location.
Sisk has already accomplished early surveys, design and vegetation clearance and can now transfer on to a two-year predominant works programme to organize the land for the primary 633 houses.
Plans embrace demolishing the 2 flyovers to the Birkenhead tunnel in addition to diverting a sewer beneath the location.
The scheme’s first part will concentrate on the southern a part of the location, earlier than shifting to the northern part.
As soon as full, Hind Avenue City Village will ship 1,600 new houses alongside inexperienced area and group amenities, instantly linked to Birkenhead city centre.
The Liverpool-based developer ION has a robust monitor file in delivering large-scale regeneration and mixed-use schemes, together with Liverpool’s Paddington Village and Pall Mall workplace district.
