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Revised development plans for tennis club

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Revised plans to redevelop Hoylake tennis courts have been submitted to Wirral Council.

St Luke’s Methodist Church is seeking outline planning permission (documents) to build a mixed, 14-dwelling development of houses and apartments on the site of St Luke’s tennis club in Charles Road, Hoylake. The tennis courts (pictured) are located opposite the car park behind The Row, Market Street. The previous application, submitted in August last year was for a larger 17-dwelling development. The initial application was withdrawn last November.

The development will have to include some affordable housing and consists of the following:

  • 4 three bedroom houses
  • 2 one bedroom apartments
  • 8 two bedroom apartments

A survey of local tennis facilities has been undertaken (detail) and concludes that “Hoylake is very well endowed with tennis facilities particularly in comparison with surrounding townships of Moreton, Heswall and West Kirby”. The survey reports that St Luke’s Tennis Club has 26 playing members and 10 non-playing members who play on the courts two mornings and one evening per week.

It has been previously suggested that as the tennis club was created as a war memorial, St Luke’s would “ensure that a suitable continuation of this memorial should be established in due course”.

What are your thoughts on this revised planning application?

 

Comments

  1. Pauline says

    August 4, 2014 at 10:50 pm

    Affordable housing is really great but it must always be in conjunction with services. The GP situation in the area is diabolical for instance

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  2. Bob Mason says

    August 5, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    Seeing there are so few playing members, and they play only a couple of times a week, then only from Spring to Autumn months, and weather permitting, it seems ludicrous that the site should not be redeveloped as proposed especially including the social housing component.. This, in itself, would be a fitting war memorial As someone who played at St. Luke’s club, about 55 years ago, I can only highly recommend to planning authorities that the current application be approved.

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  3. Barry banks says

    August 6, 2014 at 11:54 am

    Yes something else it looks like hoylake will lose. Not much left now, I don’t consider it needs even more housing.

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  4. Mike Wilson says

    August 6, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    I can remember, as a small boy, playing football on what was then a croquet lawn with Joe Mercer and his son David, when they lived in the house next door, 23 Grosvenor Road.
    Hoylake does seem to have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to tennis courts and I think many of them are under used most of the time. On my visits there, I rarely see anyone playing tennis on the courts along the prom.

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    • Ann green says

      July 1, 2016 at 7:18 pm

      Mike it’s Ann green / Brady ring me I’m on the same number, would love to meet up or speak xxx

      Reply
  5. Barry banks says

    August 10, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    Tennis courts must be one of the few things Hoylake a few of then , make use it another way, that’s a long time ago when joe mercer was a lad amazing comparison

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    • Mike Wilson says

      August 11, 2014 at 11:57 am

      Joe Mercer wasn’t a lad, I was. Amazing misconception.

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  6. Barry says

    August 16, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    So a good time ago though?

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  7. B banks says

    August 20, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    Maybe so but still a long time ago so shouldn’t have any bearing on what happens now

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    • Mike Wilson says

      August 22, 2014 at 2:39 pm

      My point being that this was not always a tennis court, and therefore had undergone a change of use previously. when it was under-used. Maybe it is time for another change of use, to suit the changing needs of the community.

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  8. Graham says

    August 23, 2014 at 9:30 am

    Hoylake is short of open spaces and room to expand. It already has too much housing and parking will become a worse problem than it is now.
    Please, anything but more housing on the tennis club site.

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  9. Carron says

    February 11, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    As a resident of Melrose Avenue I can only hope that the planning permission includes adequate parking for all these new houses and apartments. Looking at the size of the size of land the proposed development is supposed to fit on this does look very unlikely.

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