RESIDENTS are going about the streets of Hoylake photographing buildings in a bid to get Wirral Council to create a Conservation Area. Spurred into action by the demolition of cornerstone buildings like Stanley Hotel and Broomfield, newly-formed Hoylake Heritage Group is creating a dossier of snaps on property they think should be protected and conserved.

"Hoylake has a history and it needs to be preserved," says local resident Haysha Royko on behalf of Hoylake Heritage Group.

She is also asking bikers who use the pitch and putt course in Queen's Park to contact her on 632-6180.

"The bikers are damaging this local amenity and I would welcome a talk with them or their parents about providing a proper track."

Plans to change the former Minto House School in Birkenhead Road, Meols, from a nursing home into 12 flats with three-storey extension, have just been lodged with Wirral Council.

The application is APP/1999/5946/D and can be viewed at Wallasey planning department until July 1.

Some residents in the Grosvenor Road area of Hoylake, are organising a protest at a proposed housing development on railway sidings land near their homes.

The application APP/1999/5599/D is for 22 flats in four two-storey blocks on land rear of Hoylake Railway Station. Plans can be inspected at Wallasey, comments by June 17.

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