Visitors From Forestry Commission and Mersey Travel are Impressed with Delivery to Date

This week Birkenhead and Bidston were visited by both representatives of Mersey Travel,Wirral Council and The Forestry Commission who are supporting the Wirral Green Streets and Green infrastrucutre Programme through until 2015.

The Merseyside Local Sustainable Transport fund will create a minimum of 8km of greened routes, planting over 1000 large street trees in 'green-deprived' areas leading up to the dockland areas of West and East Float in the Mersey Waters Enterprise Zone.

Mersey Travel representatives were impressed with the number and scale of the plantings that have occured in such a short timescale and the impact this will have in terms of creating greened routes for walking and cycling as part of sustainable transport options for residents wanting to access training, education and employment.

Keith Jones Forestry Commission Area Director for the North West and West Midlands said 'strategic tree and woodlands creation acts as a ‘spark plug’ to ignite wider growth' after visiting the Wirral Green Streets and Green Infrastructure plantings where 360 trees have been planted this year on Wirral's streets and green spaces across Bidston and Birkenhead.

Jane Hull, principal Advisor for Social Forestry (Place) in Forest Services for the Forestry Commission said 'I cam away with a strong sense of how the investment in green infrastrucuture was not only improving the immediate environment and prospects for the local economy, but crucially helping the confidence of investors in the positive future of Wirral Waters'

   Richard Mawdesley Projects Director for Peel Developments, who own the
   Wirral Waters site is working on a number of bids to attract further investment
   in the areas infrastructure and to attract investors to create jobs, housing and
   an accessible functional dockland area.Further information can be found on the
   Wirral Waters and Mersey Waters websites.