{"id":328408,"date":"2025-08-08T17:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328408\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:20:17","slug":"birkenhead-new-chapter-for-town-as-300m-boost-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328408\/","title":{"rendered":"Birkenhead: &#8216;New chapter&#8217; for town as \u00a3300m boost agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A \u00a3300m development deal for a Wirral town has been signed, promising 1,600 new homes, a new park and a primary school.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Birkenhead Hind Street Urban Village project &#8211; an agreement between Wirral Council and ION Property Development &#8211; will also see the demolition of flyovers to the Birkenhead tunnel, space for new businesses and health facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wirral council leader Paula Basnett described it as a huge step forward and &#8220;the beginning of a new chapter&#8221; for the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The brownfield site on the banks of the River Mersey will be developed in stages over the next 10-15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u00a3300m development deal for a Wirral town has been signed, promising 1,600 new homes, a new park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114994297305462951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}