Passengers traveling in taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs), including app-based services, will be kept safer under tough new licensing standards that are set to be introduced in Wirral, following new Government advice to all local councils. 

Many local residents have written to us highlighting roads in need of repair and the council has received up to £1 million for such works.  Across Wirral West and South there are many roads included in the plan. You can find a full list attached below. 

Conservatives in Wirral have welcomed the Eat Out To Help Out Scheme, which will give people in Wirral up to 50 per cent off their bills in restaurants, cafes and pubs on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout August.  

In a dramatic last-minute decision, Wirral’s outgoing Cabinet has agreed with demands from the Conservative Councillors to delay the reintroduction of parking charges on the Borough’s high streets and country parks.

The team leading a major new national review into improving health outcomes in babies and young children has been invited to Wirral by the Chair of Wirral’s Children and Families Scrutiny Committee.

It has been announced that a further £3 million is being paid to Wirral Council by the Government to support the Borough during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

This brings the total value of grants paid to Wirral Council to just under £100 million.

The decision of Wirral’s outgoing Labour Cabinet to reintroduce parking charges from 3 August has been called in for review, following concerns that the move could be the final blow to some of the Borough’s struggling high street retailers.

The latest figures from Public Health England, showing a further fall in Covid-19 outbreaks in Wirral care homes, have been welcomed by a local Councillor.

Since 6 April, when 18 of the borough’s 127 reported an outbreak, just one care home has reported an outbreak in the latest week. 

Schools in Wirral have been included in the new, national plan to improve school facilities.

Wirral has been allocated its share of the £434 million investment to expand classrooms, upgrade facilities and improve the education of children across the whole country.

A cash boost for the hardworking volunteers at the Heswall Society and Heswall in Bloom has been given the thumbs up by residents and businesses in the town.