AUGUST 2021- STILL FIGHTING!

We NEED your help to show the strength of feeling against this development by signing this NEW PETITION to present to Wirral Council. 

Please sign here even if you have previously added your name to ANY other petition against demolition of Faraway Cottage.

The developer has submitted a new planning application (almost identical) despite all previous council planning refusals and a dismissed planning inspectorate appeal. 
We need to be sure this new petition conveys our objections to this NEW APPLICATION-AUGUST 2021.

We received 300 change.org signatures for our previous petition and it had a huge impact, thank you. We need help to send the same message again! 

A locally loved landmark in Lower Heswall (22 Farr Hall Drive) is under threat of demolition. This picture perfect, 100 year old Thatched cottage sitting on an unadopted Bridleway, featured on Channel 4‘s Coast V Country and was described as a ‘quaint chocolate-box cottage’ that stole the hearts of potential buyers. It forms a beautiful pair with the neighbouring property, 5 metres apart. It is now in the hands of developers who plan to demolish the cottage and replace it with a huge 3.5 storey urban apartment block housing 13 bedrooms and insufficient car park. 

Reasons for so many people objecting to this development include:  

• Inadequate outlook and living accommodation for potential future occupants;
• inadequate amenity space due to 3.5 storey block, car park, walkways, bin stores….squeezed onto unsuitable plot for maximum profit;
• Loss of a locally loved heritage asset and replaced with a huge, overbearing design that will overwhelm neighbouring homes; 
• Overlooking windows and balconies into neighbouring gardens and homes; 
• An urban, haphazard design that is not in keeping with the character of the area;
• Increased traffic and safety concerns for Bridleway users, particularly school children/parents and the riding school; 
• Creation of a new car park entrance onto a Public Right of Way leading to the Wirral Way tourist attraction.
• Insufficient parking, resulting in parking on the Bridleway, increasing traffic dangers to pedestrians and horse riders on the steep, unlit, unpaved path. 

Should you wish to object/make comment to WBC please visit https://planning.wirral.gov.uk/online-applications 

Application No. APP/21/01428  (22 Farr Hall Drive).                  Closing date: 23rd August 2021

Please share this petition and help to save this beautiful cottage, protect the Bridleway and show how much WE STILL OBJECT to this damaging development. 

Many thanks in advance for your support.