Wirral Waters, Peel’s £4.5bn regeneration scheme in Merseyside, has been granted final planning approval by the secretary of state.
The 17m sq ft plan for the East Float site on the derelict docks in Birkenhead was approved by Wirral council’s planning committee last month. But it needed final approval by the secretary of state, due to its scale as the largest regeneration project in the UK.
Consent was granted yesterday when communities secretary Eric Pickles wrote to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to say that a public inquiry would not be held.
The application includes 13,521 new homes, up to 4.5m sq ft of office and research space, and more than 645,000 sq ft of retail space.
Peel said that up to 20,000 jobs would be created in the area over the next 30 years as a result of the project.
Richard Mawdsley, development manager at Peel, said: “After four years of planning work we can move into the ‘marketing phase’ of the project.
“Big, catalytic occupiers – whether cultural, educational or commercial - only start getting interested when we can demonstrate we have a consent in place.”
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