A NEW cafe, micropub and blue plaque to a famous scholar are among the planning applications currently going through Wirral Council’s planning systems.

All three are at varying stages of the process, but are set to mean important changes for their respective local communities.

Firstly, approved this week were plans to transform a former bank on Arrowe Park Road in Upton into a micro-pub.

They are believed to have been made by the owners of the Bow-Legged Beagle in New Brighton, and are for the former Lloyds branch.

The unit was most recently used as a mobile phone accessory shop, and would become a small bar on the ground floor, with a kitchen area and storage on the first.

The owners are applying for permission to open between 11am until 11pm, serving beers, ales and spirits to the public, changing its current use from a retail unit.

There are also plans not yet approved that would see a new cafe open in Seacombe on the site of an old printing shop that closed over six years ago.

If approved, it would mean permission to open a cafe at the unit on Poulton Road, with five tables on the shop floor, as well as kitchen and other staff areas.

Plans were submitted to the council earlier this month, but it’s not yet known which business will fill the unit.

Finally, plans have been approved for a commemorative blue plaque to be erected at Poulton Hall in memory of biographer, scholar and children’s writer Roger Lancelyn Green.

Despite being born in Norfolk, Oxford-educated Lancelyn went on to be a research fellow at Liverpool University in the 1950s – and became well known in Wirral.

In 1957, he became editor of the Kipling Journal, and was known to be part of the Inklings literary discussion group along with CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.

His works include The Adventures of Robin Hood, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, and The Tale of Troy.

His family has reportedly owned the hall for centuries, and Lancelyn reportedly wrote “over 60” of his works at Poulton Hall before his death in 1987.