A masterplan to transform a Bromborough Pool brownfield site in Wirral with new homes has been recognised with a national award.

Ainsley Gommon Architects and Wirral Council’s development management team won the Placemaking on Brownfield Land category at this year’s National Planning and Placemaking Awards for their work on the former Prices Patent Candles factory plot.

Commenting on the now award-winning mixed-use scheme, which will also include industrial units, Councillor Phil Davies, leader of Wirral Council, says: “We work closely with the private sector to deliver employment and housing schemes with a high quality of design to shape our communities for the future.

“Prior to the Lever Brothers’ famous development at Port Sunlight, Wirral already had another model village, built by industrialists with a strong social focus to house workers.

“The new development will combine high quality housing and industrial units, as well as open up access to a stretch of the Mersey riverfront that has been closed for decades.

“Regenerating areas like Bromborough Pool is central to our council plan for 2020, and I congratulate Ainsley Gommon Architects and our own officers for their hard work on this.”

The site, which was originally constructed in 1853 and influenced the Lever Brothers’ Port Sunlight village formerly housed workers within a 60-acre purpose-built walled and gated community.

Much of the site has now been cleared and decontaminated as part of the masterplan, which includes the restoration of the 19^th Century clock tower, and a waterfront with a combined riverside walk and cycleway which will be open to the public.

Alf Plant, director at Ainsley Gommon Architects, says: “Ainsley Gommon Architects has been working on Bromborough Pool village and its surroundings since 1988.

“This prestigious award marks the culmination of all this work and will bring the former candle factory site back into use for new housing, recreational space and employment whilst conserving some of the key historic features of the site.”

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