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Six Wirral polling districts get new venues for May 2027, from the Williamson Art Gallery to the Grange pub. One Oxton district still has nowhere to vote.
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead Market to Open at TJ Hughes on 25 February 2027
Wirral Council has set 25 February 2027 to open the new Birkenhead Market at TJ Hughes, after preconstruction work found water damage in the building.
West Kirby
Hilbre Crossing Tool: 20,000 Users, Tide Times Verified
Its times match the Admiralty figures Wirral Council links to, and its windows follow the official three hour rule. The free site says 20,000 have used it.
House Prices
Wirral House Prices £603 Off Record, Terraces at a Peak
The average Wirral home hit £221,849 in July, £603 short of January's record. Terraced and semi-detached houses are at all-time highs; flats are not.
Transport
Wirral Bus Changes: Two Routes Withdrawn, Most Renumbered
From 25 October the 216/217 and the 423 are withdrawn, 14 routes get new numbers and two new services start. The full old-to-new list for Wirral.
Community
West Kirby RNLI: 30 Years of Service, and a Station First
Mark Taylor received a 20-year long service medal, and Tom Clark the first 10-year award ever presented at West Kirby. Both came on crew night, 2 September.
Crime
Rock Ferry and New Ferry: 850 Cannabis Plants, Seven Arrests
Seven arrests and a cannabis farm of more than 850 plants, after Merseyside Police and partner agencies targeted Rock Ferry and New Ferry on 11 September.
Schools
Birkenhead Park School Ofsted: Absence Halved to 16.8%
Persistent absence fell from 41.5% to 16.8% and GCSE passes nearly doubled, in the Ofsted report published 8 September. Three areas graded strong.
Wirral
Peak Cluster: Wirral Surveys Can Happen Without Consent
Wirral voted 56-0 against the CO2 pipeline. Its own report says refusing survey access changes little: notice was served on the Wallasey foreshore in August.
Wirral
Wirral Planning: All 5 Recommended Despite Two Petitions
Officers back all five applications at Thursday's Wirral Planning Committee: a Wallasey hostel, five Heswall flats and a compound behind the Lighthouse Inn.
House Prices
Wirral House Prices June 2026 Restated to £216,538
Land Registry has restated Wirral's June average to £216,538, up 8.3% in a year. Terraced houses rose fastest at 9.6%; flats rose least at 5.2%.
Wirral
Wirral Remembrance Sunday: 8 November, Parade Rules
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Merseyside Police no longer close Wirral's roads for parades, and the council's own order page allows 12 weeks.
Wirral
Wirral Christmas Markets: Birkenhead Sets 7 Nov and 5 Dec
Birkenhead Market has set two free Saturday craft markets, 7 November and 5 December, 10am to 4pm. Port Sunlight and the dockside market have no 2026 date yet.
Wirral is one of the few places round here where the council’s name and the name people use are the same word. It is a peninsula with the Mersey on one side and the Dee on the other, and residents say they are from Wirral rather than from the borough or the county.
The two coasts are not alike. West Kirby, Hoylake, Meols, Caldy, Heswall and Thurstaston look across the Dee to Wales. Birkenhead, Wallasey, New Brighton, Bebington, Bromborough and Port Sunlight face Liverpool and the docks. One council decides planning, bins, parking and licensing for all of it, and publishes the evidence where hardly anyone reads it. We read it and report what is in it, linking to the document each time.
Every fact carries a link to the document it came from.