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Seaward, 17 Lingdale Road, West Kirby, Wirral, CH48 5DG
The Creation of Vehicle Parking on Existing Grassed Lawned Area to Front of Property & Widening Of Existing Boundary Wall Vehicle Entrance
1 Axholme Close, Thingwall, Wirral, CH61 1BH
ERECTION OF DETACHED GARAGE
BURNS HOUSE, 147A Park Road North, Claughton, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 0DD
Erection of a two-storey entrance extension, a first floor balcony to the rear and addition of external wall insulation to existing external walls with additional external alterations.
Carlett Oil & Fuel Storage Depot Ferry Road, Eastham, Wirral, CH62 0AP
Full planning application for the demolition and remediation of onsite infrastructure, erection of a residential development for 136 affordable dwellings with associated means of access, creation of r
73 Prestbury Avenue, Oxton, Prenton, Wirral, CH43 0UQ
5.35m single storey rear extenion
Former Croda Site Land North Of Marshall Close And Pool Lane, CH62 4TU
S73 application to amend Condition 2 (Plans) to amend Landscape Masterplan, 16 (Landscape Implementation) to include amended river embankment and amended acoustic bund, 19 (Acoustic Bund) to change de
24 Appleton Drive, Greasby, Wirral, CH49 1SJ
Demolition of the existing garage and erection of a two-storey side extension and part single-storey rear extension
SUNRIDGE, 34 Plymyard Avenue, Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 6BN
Single Storey Rear Extensions, First Floor Side Extension, Two Storey Front Extension, Roof Extension with increased ridge height Along With Front & Rear Roof Dormers
23 Stanley Road, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 1HN
Two storey front and rear extension; erection of single storey garage replacing existing; single storey rear extension with green roof and balconies; erection of side gate to front elevation; erection
34-38 Conway Street, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 6JD
Application for planning permission on a retrospective basis for the subdivision of existing hot food takeaway (sui generis) premises to two separate hot food takeaway
6 Winfrith Drive, Spital, Wirral, CH63 9HX
Proposed single storey rear extension
5 Church Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5EE
Retention of detached garden room and retrospective alterations to boundary treatment and rear access arrangements, together with proposed timber pergola and fencing to the rear garden of a Grade II L
5 Church Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5EE
Retention of detached garden room and retrospective alterations to boundary treatment and rear access arrangements, together with proposed timber pergola and fencing to the rear garden of a Grade II L
20A Pensby Road, Heswall, Wirral, CH60 7RE
Discharge of following conditions of RETX/25/01366: 1 - 3 year commencement 2 - Approved plans 3 - Details of cycle and waste storage facilities.
29 Fulbrook Road, Spital, Wirral, CH63 9HT
New single parking space to side of house off Buckland Drive.
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When Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, raw rate
29.8%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
30.6%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
0.8 percentage points below expected. Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
469 appeals counted, 449 judged either way (134 allowed, 315 dismissed), 20 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 282 | 278 | 87 | 31.3% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 128 | 125 | 34 | 27.2% | 35.6% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 20 | 19 | 7 | 36.8% | 33.3% |
| Enforcement Notice | 16 | 8 | 1 | 12.5% | 13.5% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 7 | 6 | 1 | 16.7% | 36.9% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 6 | 6 | 2 | 33.3% | 20.6% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 4 | 4 | 1 | Too few judged | 25% |
| High Hedges | 3 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 36% |
| Environmental | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council planning portal.
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