Wirral News
The latest Wirral news: planning decisions, council and crime updates, business and community stories, each linked back to its official source.
Top story
Wirral Polling Stations: 6 Venues Change, 1 Still Missing
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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Merseyrail
Merseyrail E-Bike Ban From 1 January: What Is Still Allowed
Non-folding e-bikes are barred from Merseyrail trains, stations and cycle stores from 1 January. Folding e-bikes and pedal bikes are still allowed.
Community
Three Wirral Teens Cast in a Film Bound for Cannes
Emmet, 16, Jenna, 14, and Brooke, 13, from the Wirral are filming The N.E.S.T. Project with a friend in the lead. The makers are aiming for Cannes in May 2027.
Council
Wirral Day Centres: Fewer Buildings Planned After Vote
Councillors chose a plan ending in fewer day centre buildings, though users ranked no change first. Four centres need £765,185 of repairs.
Transport
Royal Daffodil: When Wirral Can Ride the New Mersey Ferry
The £26m Royal Daffodil, built in Birkenhead, sailed on 22 September. Its first public cruise is Saturday by ballot, with passenger service later this autumn.
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.
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.
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Wirral Bus Changes: Two Routes Withdrawn, Most Renumbered
From 25 October the 216/217 and the 423 are withdrawn, 14 routes get new numbers and two new services start.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%.
Planning
Bromborough Wharf Plan: 534 Homes, Half Affordable
Vistry says at least half of its 534 Bromborough homes will be affordable. The outline permission was granted on a council finding that none were viable.
Health
Clatterbridge Cancer Care Scores 9.2/10, England 8.9
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre scored 9.2 out of 10 in the 2025 national cancer survey, against 8.9 for England, and beat expectations on 16 of 61 questions.
New Brighton
New Brighton Parkrun: Vale Park Route Set, No Start Date
Wirral Council has funded a parkrun through Vale Park and New Brighton Promenade and is asking for volunteers. Birkenhead's event needed 52 last Saturday.
Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight Bridge Inn Bought by the Village Trust
Port Sunlight Village Trust has bought the Grade II listed Bridge Inn, built in 1900 as a temperance hotel. Greene King stays on, with no changes planned.
Oxton
Oxton Conservation Area: Survey Closes 31 August
Wirral Council's Oxton conservation survey closes on 31 August. It feeds a plan replacing the 2010 appraisal, whose Article 4 idea was never acted on.
Jobs
Wirral Claimant Count: One Ward at 8.6%, Another 0.9%
Wirral's claimant count fell over the year while the UK's rose. But 18 to 24s are up 150, and Birkenhead and Tranmere sits in the top 3% of English wards.
Education
Wirral Met's £4m Birkenhead Build Opens in September
A new Maths and English Centre at Wirral Met's Twelve Quays campus is finished and takes students in September. The NEXUS Engineering Hub follows in October.
Meols
Hoylake Carrs Wetland: £430,000 Work Starts Near Meols
Machines are in at Hoylake Carrs. Fifteen scrapes and a low bund will hold 45,000 cubic metres of floodwater above Meols, and the site stays closed to walkers.
Wirral Council
Wirral Polling Stations: 15,900 Voters Face a Move
At least 15,900 Wirral electors would vote somewhere new from May 2027. Every ward's proposed change, and how to object before 5pm on 18 September.
Birkenhead
Grange Road West: one-way stays, planters and orange road go
Wirral Council will keep the one-way system on Grange Road West in Birkenhead but remove the orange surfacing, planters and benches and bring back parking. Removal starts within a fortnight.
Bromborough
Wirral Youth Market Bromborough 22 Aug: 85+ young traders
The biggest Wirral Youth Market yet comes to Allport Lane, Bromborough on Saturday 22 August, 10am to 4pm: 85+ young traders and performers, free entry, free fairground rides.
Business
Deborah Alfa: Brimstage salon firm enters liquidation
The company behind the award-winning hair and beauty salon at Brimstage Hall Courtyard went into creditors' voluntary liquidation on 7 August 2026.
Planning
Wirral Local Plan consultation extended to 28 August
Wirral Council has moved the deadline for comments on its Local Plan 2045 scoping report from 6 to 28 August. How to have your say before 5pm that day.