Urgent Community Action Required: Green Belt Land Near Caldy at Risk
A large-scale development proposal affecting Green Belt land beside Caldy Golf Club and stretching towards Flissy’s Coffee Shop and beyond is currently open for public comment — but very few residents are aware it is happening.
The deadline to respond is Friday 3 January 2026, and this consultation has taken place quietly over the Christmas and New Year period, when scrutiny is naturally low.
The scale is far bigger than most people realise
This proposal covers over 50 football pitches of open countryside. In real terms, it would back directly onto Caldy Golf Club, extend towards Flissy’s Coffee Shop, and replace open, accessible Green Belt land with an industrial-scale solar installation.
This would include:
Solar panels up to 3.5 metres high
Security fencing up to 2.5 metres high
CCTV, substations and wide access tracks
Construction traffic for up to 12 months
This is not temporary — it is proposed for 40 years
The development is being proposed for up to 40 years, meaning it would span more than one generation. The actions we take now will directly determine whether children who are only just being born today and those who follow them — will ever experience this land as open countryside.
If this goes ahead, we also lose the enjoyment of this landscape now:
Walking your dog
Walking with friends and family
Enjoying open views across the estuary
Tourism
Those views would be replaced by fencing, panels and infrastructure. Once this land is enclosed and industrialised, there is no easy way back.
This is not about opposing renewable energy
This is not an objection to renewable energy in principle. There are many locations across the UK better suited to large-scale solar developments — including sites that are not heavily used by the public and not protected Green Belt land.
Crucially, Wirral residents will not directly benefit from the electricity generated, yet the environmental and visual impacts will be felt locally every day.
Why acting now matters
This is not yet a planning application. It is an early but critical stage known as EIA Scoping, where the developer is asking Wirral Council to agree what environmental impacts they do not need to assess.
This stage sets the bar for scrutiny later. If we do not act now, key impacts may never be properly assessed.
Adding your voice:
Takes around 5 minutes
Requires no planning knowledge
And every individual email counts
What you need to do
When you email Wirral Council, your email should:
Contain the draft text below in the body of the email
Include the WGSA EIA Scoping Report Representation PDF as an attachment
(This is the document you are formally agreeing to and can be downloaded below.)
Draft email text (copy and paste)
Please copy the text below into the body of your email, then add your own name, address and date at the end.
Dear Wirral Planning,
I would like to confirm that I agree with the comments and requests in the EIA Scoping
Report Representation, a document produced by WGSA – Thurstaston Group, and would ask for
the points within it to be considered accordingly.
I/We understand it to be acceptable and require that this Representation is recorded as a distinct
Representation made by the undersigned.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Name: [Your name]
Address: [Your full address]
Date: [Date]
Where to send it
Email: planningapplications@wirral.gov.uk
Cc: christopherheather@wirral.gov.uk
Subject line: EIA Scoping Comments – SCO/25/01850
Important
Please attach the WGSA EIA Scoping Report Representation PDF to your email, download file below.
This ensures your response is treated as a formal endorsement of the detailed objections
Each email is counted as a separate individual response
If this Green Belt land matters to you for today, for your children, and for future generations, please take a few minutes to act now.
