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The Rooftop Of Gorse Hill Reservoir Water Tower Gorse Hill Road, New Brighton, Wirral, CH45 9JB

LBC/25/01896Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved

Council decision: Conditional Approval

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Proposed telecommunications upgrade to an existing site on the rooftop and internal room of Gorse Hill Reservoir Water Tower. The proposed works include the swap out of 3 no. antennas in the same locations, remove 3 no. existing MHA's and 3 no. BOBS and replace with 6 no. MHA's, 3 no. BOB's, 6 no. Active routers and 1 no. GPS node together with works within the internal room and ancillary works.

Received
8 December 2025
Ward
New Brighton
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.16 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Rooftop Of Gorse Hill Reservoir Water Tower Gorse Hill Road, New Brighton, Wirral, CH45 9JB. Wirral has handled 310 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 8 December 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across New Brighton. We hold 910 applications in total for the CH45 postcode area.

93% of heritage applications at Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CH45 9JB
Application type
Listed Building Consent

Planning application dates

Validated
8 December 2025
Consultation expiry
16 January 2026
Consultation end
16 January 2026

Planning decision

Decision
Conditional Approval

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    8 Dec

    Proposed telecommunications upgrade to an existing site on the rooftop and internal room of Gorse Hill…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongsideAPP/25/01895
  2. 2025
    8 Dec

    Proposed telecommunications upgrade to an existing site on the rooftop and internal room of Gorse Hill…

    This applicationApprovedHeritageLBC/25/01896

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