WIRRAL residents seem to have lost the will to host royal wedding street parties.

Compared with the 39 applications to close roads across the borough for the last royal event in 2011, this year there has been just ONE.

The only street embracing the British tradition on Saturday will be Alverstone Avenue in Claughton, where a special event temporary traffic notice has been agreed with Wirral council.

The local authority said it had received “a number of other expressions of interest”, but applications did not then materialise.

A spokesman said the contrast between now and 2011 may be because fees for such events to obtain temporary road closures were waived that year for the wedding of William and Kate.

That made it much simpler and cheaper for residents to stage them, and they took place in locations from Wallasey to Heswall, he added.

Those in Wirral still wanting to attend a street party to celebrate the wedding of fifth in line to the throne Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could always get the train up to Sefton.

There are ten taking place in that local authority – mostly in Bootle – after the council, like various others across the UK, waived road closure costs again.

Liverpool City Council also waived the costs, but said this week it is expecting just two street parties to take place.