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'Avenue' approach to Wirral Waters (From Wirral Globe)
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'Avenue' approach to Wirral Waters
8:00am Saturday 14th July 2012 in News By Geoff Barnes
Artist's impression of Wirral Waters scheme
HUNDREDS of trees are to be planted on green spaces and roads leading to the planned Wirral Waters development to create an environmentally friendly approach to the £4.5bn docklands venture.
Peel Developments' Wirral Waters proposal – which has been given the green light by the government - will create more than 20,000 jobs in a broad range of commercial sectors; more than 13,000 homes; office and workshop accommodation and extensive leisure and cultural facilities over a 30 to 40-year period.
The £1m planting scheme will involve the planting of up to 600 trees on the approaches to East and West Floats at Wirral docks.
Funding will be provided by the Setting the Scene for Growth programme operated through the Forestry Commission.
The Mersey Forest will spearhead the initiative that uses street tree planting as a mechanism to improve the quality of life for people in town and cities.
Green Streets works at the heart of the community with residents and partner organisations to promote the value of greenery in tackling a range of social health and economic issues.
The project will also include measures to "green" key routes in the area; create a community-based growing project; establish a "multi-age" park and establish areas of intermediate woodland and wildflower meadows.
The streets and green spaces targeted for the scheme lead from and through residential areas and along key highway links bordering the Wirral Waters site.
The planting scheme would support proposed development activity in the area.
In addition, local transport infrastructure plans, including improved cycling, walking and local transport routes, would be enhanced.
Peel plan part of the imaginative Wirral Waters development as an "international-quality leisure destination."
They propose a series of five different quarters at East Float – each with its own character and design.
They would be called Sky City, Northbank West, Four Bridges, Marina View and Vittoria Studios.
Wirral Council's cabinet will meet on Thursday night to ratify the planting scheme.
Comments(12)
council officer
says...
10:17am Sat 14 Jul 12
Jokes aside, I really hope this project comes off for the next generation! However, I have a horrible feeling this Council will find a way of messing things up!
Wirralrob
says...
10:30am Sat 14 Jul 12
I hear after what happened in Corfu Street, you need planning permission to plant a daisy in this borough.
antisthenes
says...
4:31pm Sat 14 Jul 12
That's £16,666 per tree!
Agree we need to green the grot surrounding the docks but why can't this be done by local landscaping firms employing local people who really are at the 'heart of the community' ?
That way Peel get to establish their green credentials whilst generating local jobs.
Sounds to me like it used to be back when out of towner green monopoly charity Groundwork were raking in the green pound..more jobs for the Green Boys!
bloodtub
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5:36pm Sat 14 Jul 12
red devil
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4:31pm Sun 15 Jul 12
Jimrob
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10:23pm Sun 15 Jul 12
Which Labour Councillor is about to make a killing by selecting the lucky, golf playing friend to sell them to the Council?
djrimmer
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11:49pm Sun 15 Jul 12
WirralAl
says...
9:53am Mon 16 Jul 12
The scheme is not green it is about as ungreen as it could possibly be.
When you build a house do they put the trees in first?
Is a tree the next smoke screen?
The council needs to sort out it internal issues before this can be progressed.
We have the worst council in the country and you get this crap.
The dock road does not have the space for trees. Each normal tree has a spread of say 15ft. What will the trucks and buses do to avoid them.
EddieGremlin
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11:56am Mon 16 Jul 12
spamfiend
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8:08pm Wed 18 Jul 12
Wirral_Man
says...
8:56am Thu 19 Jul 12
I do like street trees and the improvements that they bring to a street - just compare the feel of some of the streets in Bebington that still have (most) of their trees - e.g. Prince's Drive to those where they have been lost e.g. Alexandra Drive. However the key point here is that they must be maintained because when the local "darlings" break one of these if it isn't replaced or trimmed this will be seen as a challenge to break them all and we'll have a Avenue lined with stumps and holes in the pavements.
Oh and yes I am plesantly suprised by this as WMBC does sadly seem to of decalred war on the trees of Wirral recently!
uncatom says...
9:10am Sat 14 Jul 12