THIS is the full list of Green Belt locations set to be released in a bid for Wirral Council to meet huge government-imposed housing targets.

The list, released in council documents on Friday and set to be discussed by the cabinet later this month, show a total of almost 50 large green belt sites that could be up for development.

Last week, the Globe received a leaked document that outlined which area of Green Belt land is earmarked to be sold-off to developers in order for the council to meet Government-set housing targets.

They include huge areas of land including around Irby and Thingwall, which it was earlier claimed are set to be “effectively merged."

It comes after the council was told it must identify available land for a target 800 homes per year for the next 15 years – a total of 12,000.

That objective cannot be met solely on brownfield sites, meaning these areas have been targeted for development and caused “outrage” earlier this week.

Many of the sites, which total hundreds of acres and stretch across 14 wards, contain areas the council says it will continue to protect, which we have indicated below.

They include areas containing “important historical landmarks, fields and woods”, and are listed below.

The sites recommended for consultation for release are:

Bebington:

West of Landican Lane, Storeton

Little Storeton

North of Rest Hill Road, Storeton (Storeton Woods to be protected)

Storeton Village

North of Marsh Lane, Storeton

North of Red Hill Road, Storeton (Storeton Woods to be protected)

East of Brimstage Lane, Storeton (Umberstone Covert to be protected)

East of Mount Road (Brackenwood Park and Golf Course to be protected)

South of Peter Prices Lane (Brackenwood Golf Course and Poulton Recreation Ground to be protected)

West of Brimstage Lane, Storeton

Clatterbridge:

North of Clatterbridge Road, Bebington

North of Poulton Hall Road, Spital (Dibbinsdale SSSI and Raby Mere Woodland to be protected)

East of Poulton Road, Spital (Dibbinsdale LNR and Brotherton Park to be protected)

West of Dibbinsdale Road (Poulton Hall, Dibbinsdale SSSI and Marfords Wood to be protected)

West of Raby Drive, Raby Mere (Dibbinsdale SSSI and Raby Mere Woodland to be protected)

West of Plymyard Dale, Brookhurst (Bromborough Golf Course and Plymyard Dale to be protected)

South of Eastham Rake (Woodland to be protected)

Eastham:

West of Lowfields Avenue (Lowfields Open Space and Woodland to be protected)

South of Mill Park (Woodlands and ponds to be protected)

West of Rivacre Road (David’s Rough to be protected. The document says this site may also be suitable for employment uses)

East of Rivacre Road (The document says this site may also be suitable for employment uses)

Eastham Village Conservation Area (The document says conservation area controls will remain, and Malone Field, St Mary’s Field and Torr Park will be protected)

St David’s Road

East of Ferry Road (Mayfields Remembrance Park to be protected)

Bromborough and Eastham:

North of St David’s Road (Leverhulme Playing Fields, Eastham Country Park, Green Lane Playing Fields, Eastham Lodge Golf Course, Carlett Park Allotments and Carlett Park Playing Field to be protected)

Greasby, Frankby and Irby:

East of Rigby Drive (Greasby Copse protected)

South of Thingwall Road, Irby (River corridors, Harrock Wood and public rights of way to be protected)

West of Glenwood Drive, Irby (Limbo Lane, woodlands and ponds and public and permissive rights of way to be protected)

Land at 41 to 61 Thurstaston Road, Irby

Rear of Irby Hall

Heswall:

East and West of Pipers Lane (this will be subject to protection of nature conservation interests, ponds and woodlands)

North of Whitehouse Lane (Protected trees to be protected)

Land at Chester Road, Gayton (Gayton Park to be protected)

Boathouse Lane, Gayton (This will be subject to tree protection and nature conservation)

Hoylake and Meols:

West of 13 Acres Road, Meols (public right of way to be protected)

West of Meols Drive, Hoylake (Royal Liverpool Golf Course to be protected)

Moreton West and Saughall Massie, Hoylake and Meols, Greasby, Frankby and Irby:

Land north of Greasby (River corridor to be protected)

Moreton West and Saughall Massie:

Garden Hey Nursery

Barnacre Lane

Saughall Massie Conservation Area (Conservation Area controls will remain)

North of Saughall Massie (River corridor and roadside hedge lines to be protected)

East of Garden Hey Road (Roadside hedge lines to be protected)

Pensby and Thingwall:

North of Gills Lane, Pensby (Cross Hill Reservoir to be protected)

Pensby and Thingwall and Heswall:

West of Barnston Village (Barnston Dale to be protected)

Prenton and Bebington:

North of Lever Causeway, Storeton (including Prenton Golf Course, Prenton RUFC, Lever Causeway, Cow Hey Covert and Marsh Hey Covert)

Upton:

West of Weybourne Close (Rover corridor and public right of way to be protected)

Wallasey and Leasowe and Moreton East:

Land at Wallasey Loop (subject to acceptable highway access)

West Kirby and Thurstaston:

West of Column Road, West Kirby (Stapeldon Wood to be protected)

The sites are alongside a number of others earmarked by Wirral council for housing not on the green belt, which can be seen on the council website.

Cabinet member for housing and planning, Cllr George Davies, said “every inch” of the borough’s brownfield sites would be used to meet the targets.

The document to be discussed by cabinet also includes a list of 91 brownfield sites identified across Wirral where plots exist for the potential to build just two or three new homes, up to sites where it is estimated dozens or even hundreds of new houses could be built.

Cllr Davies said: “The Government knows full well Wirral does not have enough brownfield land to meet their target of 12,000 new houses.

“At the moment, we have identified enough brownfield space for 2,410 new homes, in addition to the thousands which have been granted planning permission but have not yet been started.

“As deputy leader of Wirral Council, our administration’s policy is very much ‘brownfield sites first’.

As residents of this fantastic borough we all value its open spaces, and will continue to protect as much of our Green Belt as we can”

Major brownfield sites already identified include the former location of Land and Marine on Dock Road North which could see plans for up to 78 new homes come forward, and the former Acre Lane Resource Centre in Bromborough, which it is anticipated could see 217 new homes.

The redevelopment of the former Seamen’s Mission at Gibson House on Seabank Road, Liscard could provide space for more than 50 new homes, and the council’s regeneration plans are looking to develop new homes on the former Foxfield School site in Moreton.

Another one of the sites identified, Former Old Tavern Club, Magazine Lane in New Brighton, has now received planning permission for 12 new homes.

Cllr Davies added: “Like all local authorities, Wirral must have a Local Plan.

“But it is crucial our Local Plan is designed based on the distinct needs and characteristics of our Borough, and the needs of our residents.

“This is why we will be talking to residents through an extensive programme of community consultation over the coming weeks.

"We are legally obliged to review our Green Belt land and, while making any of those sites available for development will be our last resort, it has been made unequivocally clear to us by Government, that if we do not complete a plan to meet the Government’s targets, they will not hesitate to complete the task for us.”

Any potential move will be subject to a public consultation, but was earlier this week attacked by a Wirral cabinet member, who said a government minister “sat looking at Google Maps isn’t going to have that local knowledge”.

Cabinet member for jobs and growth Cllr Angela Davies said: “Residents in my ward are outraged by this threat to our open spaces and green belt to simply satisfy a Tory Government national house building target.”

To view maps of all the sites earmarked in the consultation, and the brownfield sites too, visit: https://democracy.wirral.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=121&MID=7609#AI44834