The Hind Street Urban Village development will bring in over £300m of public and private investment into Birkenhead and is one of the largest planned projects being carried out by Wirral Council as part of its regeneration plans.
Standing outside Birkenhead Central station, Steve Parry, the managing director of Ion Developments, said: “If you look at this and where we are standing now, it cuts off the station from the town centre. The main reason is connecting this area to the town centre. It will mirror what it was originally.
“Birkenhead’s biggest benefit is its accessibility but it’s also its disadvantage. What would you stop at Birkenhead when you can get off at Liverpool One?” The Hind Street site where the homes will go is currently derelict with the old car park crumbling and little sign of its past gasholders and terraced houses. It has now mainly been repopulated by common wild grasses and self seeded plants and trees according to Ion.
“It is far quicker to get from Birkenhead to Liverpool city centre. It is really what the selling point is with this.” "This was a bend that used to come in from the river. The river was then narrowed. If we went down far enough, any contamination is one of the issues we have got to deal with.”