11 Transition Bays Along The Burbo Bank Onshore Export Cable Route Which Runs Between LEASOWE BEACH And The ONSHORE SUBSTATION In Wallsey Data via plota.co.uk

Approved LDP/26/00409 - Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
Utility infrastructure
Council
Wirral 3.3/10
Date received
26 Jun 2026
Decision date
13 Sept 2026
Postcode
CH46 3RD
Type
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed

Description

Burbo Bank Wind Farm and is seeking a lawful development certificate to confirm that future repair and maintenance works to the onshore underground electricity cables at 11 'joint bay' locations between Leasowe Beach and the onshore substation in Wallasey would be permitted development. In the event that a fault is detected, any cable replacement is anticipated to be on a like for like basis. Works will take place on a reactive rather than proactive basis if a fault is identified… Data via plota.co.uk

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How this decision compares

Decided in 79 days from validation, 29 days slower than Wirral's median of 50 for lawful development certificates. Approved, as 85% of lawful development certificates here are.

84%decided within 8 weeks
85%approved
19,896decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent lawful development certificates in Wirral to go on. Wirral decision record →

Site constraints 7

Special protection area: Mersey Narrows & North Wirral Foreshore
3 designations overlap here. A habitats assessment is needed.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
SSSI: North Wirral Foreshore SSSI
Natural England must be consulted on work that may affect it.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Birkenhead to Welsh Border across the site
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.
Priority habitat: No main habitat but additional habitats present
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
Agricultural land, grade 5
Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Wirral
Planning Authority Score
3.3/10
Poor
#227 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Wirral is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #200 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
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Wirral decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #164 of 296
90%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #198 of 296
57%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #200 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #197 of 296
62%
Minor dwellings approved
47 decided (1-9 homes)
86%
Major dwellings approved
7 decided (10+ homes)
77%
Change of use approved
61 decided
909
Total decisions
112 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings