Prima Neighbourhood Plan

Putting customers and communities first

Click here to enter our gardening competition! Your Neighbourhood about the area local facilities The town of Birkenhead is situated in the north eastern part of Wirral Birkenhead town centre is a vibrant area only minutes away from and offers many things to visit and explore. Birkenhead has a population most of our properties. Some of Birkenhead’s local facilities include: of 88,818. Prima Wirral manage approximately 90 properties in • Pyramids Shopping Centre - Over 100 stores from small Birkenhead and the surrounding areas. Most of our properties however, independents to big brands. are based in central Birkenhead, close to all amenities including the • Excellent Transport Links - Fantastic transport links to shopping centre, parks, cinema and the historic Hamilton Square. and Chester. Hamilton Square train station, the Woodside Ferry and Birkenhead Bus Station are all only 5 minutes Community Events & CLubs away. Kingsway Tunnel offers direct access to Liverpool City Centre. There are a wide variety of clubs and community centres in • Plenty of local schools to choose from the local area. These range from Birkenhead Park which has an • Birkenhead Park - First publicly funded civic park in the world. interesting and varied programme of events throughout the year, • Lady Lever Art Gallery - Outstanding British eighteenth and to the local schools and voluntary groups. nineteenth century paintings. • The Hive Youth Zone - Safe environment where young people • Wirral Pretty Muddy 5k - 29th June 2019 can come and enjoy themselves. • Race for Life - 30th June 2019 • Wirral Transport Museum - Working museum and working • Wirral Walking Festival - May 2019 heritage tramway preserving Buses, Trams & other local transport • Wirral In Bloom Festival - 11th & 12th August 2019 related vehicles. • Tranmere Football Club - Professional football club currently in League Two. • Vue Cinema - Showing all the latest mainstream movies. • Supermarkets - Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco Express. Your Neighbourhood planned improvements Community Action Days A full list of any planned, cyclical and capitalworks can be found here. Our next door knock/area audit in Birkenhead is on 25th September 2019. Our next regeneration clean-up day in We will soon be undertaking a stock condition survey on all PHA housing Birkenhead is on 10th October 2019 at Antiques Triangle. to identify any neccessary improvements. Regeneration & development Local Councillors If you are looking for a property in this area then Wirral council are currently consulting the local community on a Councillor Pat Cleary please click here to join our proposed £150m regeneration of the town centre area. This will Councillor Steve Hayes waiting list. include new commercial premises and building upon the existing Councillor Jean Stapleton retail and leisure offer.

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Our properties in Birkenhead. Neighbourhood indicators

The information shown on the next few pages show different measures of people’s satisfaction with their neighbourhood, education levels, tenure of housing, crime rates, population and the sense of community cohesion in the neighbourhood. The data included here is taken from the postcodes in which we own homes only.

All crimes “I’m satisfied with the local 82.2 December 2017 to November 2018 79.2 area as a place to live” 79.3 1016 “I belong to the 62 57.7 neighbourhood” 58.2

“People from different 80 backgrounds get on well 76.2 76 together in the local area” Anti-social behaviour incidents December 2017 to November 2018

Aged 65+ 85 “I am satisfied with both my 82.4 83 198 home and my neighbourhood”

“I can influence decisions in 26 29.9 the local area” 28.9

% Car crimes 0 20 40 60 80 100 Dec 2017 to Nov 2018 Birkenhead Social Housing Areas 29 Neighbourhood indicators

Social rented households Owner occupied households Rented from private landlord Other rented dwellings 545 150 132 13 65% (England average - 17.7%) 17.9% (England average - 64.1%) 15.7% (England average - 15.4%) 1.5% (England average - 2.8%)

Local authority rented Owner occupied Housing Association rented Other

70 64.1 60 55.4 50

40 38.5 32.4 30

% Of households 19.6 18.2 20 17.9 17.3

10 9.5 9.5 9.4 8.3

0 Birkenhead Social housing areas England Neighbourhood indicators

Education Population

Birkenhead Social Housing Areas England Aged 0-15 Working age Aged 65+

35 100 9.1 30 90 15.1 17.9 30 27.4 80 25 22.5 70 60 20 74.1 50 64.7 63.1 15 40 % Of population % Aged 16-74 10 30 20 5 10 16.8 20.2 19.1 0 0 People with no qualifications Leasowe Social housing areas England

Health & Social Work Retail Manufacturing

18% of all people in 18% of all people in 9% of all people in employment employment employment Largest Industry Sector Second largest industry sector Third largest industry sector Action plan 2019 - 2020

Action Partners/Staff Resources Details Outcomes Date

To undertake cyclical • Prima Wirral Assets Team • Complete external painting and associated • Improve the external appearance March decorating works to • Housing Officer repairs work, where required, to houses, of Prima Wirral properties and 2020 Prima Wirral properties fences, shop fronts and communal areas the neighbourhoods in which we manage/own stock

To undertake planned • Assets Team • Fit new flooring, build a new bike storage • Improve the quality of Prima Wirral Jan capital works to Prima • Housing Officer unit and remodel the bin store at Antiques properties 2020 Wirral properties Triangle

To undertake area audits • Local Councillors and Local • As appropriate, consider a rolling • Develop an action plan from each March as identified by Housing Authority Staff programme of intelligence-led estate walkabout, with agreed outcomes 2020 Officers and the local • Police walkabouts with key partners and local and organisational responsibilities to community • Not for profit local residents. They will target issues/areas of resolve organisations concern to residents and we will work • Monitor progress on action plans on • Tenancy Sustainment Staff jointly with partners to seek local solutions a quarterly basis • Housing Officers i.e. fly-tipping hotspots, potholes, illegal • To work with partners to resolve • Tenants parking, etc. solutions

To undertake regeneration • Local Councillors and Local • As appropriate, consider a rolling • Improve the environment in local areas March clean-ups as identified by Authority Staff programme of intelligence led estate clean by reducing fly tipping and targeting 2020 Housing Officers and the • Police up days with key partners specific areas of concern to local local community • Not for profit local residents • Promote the availability of local services organisations available to residents • Tenancy Sustainment Officers • To engage with residents and the • Housing Officers wider community to promote positive • Tenants engagement to improve the local • Schools environment

Engage all residents in • Prima Wirral finance team • Undertake annual satisfaction survey with • Review service costs and deliver Jan improving communal • Housing Officers residents who pay a service charge for value for money in the services we 2020 services communal services regarding the quality and provide to all residents costs of those services