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12 affordable family homes are to be built on a vacant brownfield site in Tranmere, after work has began on a new housing development.
Magenta Living and construction firm Seddon have started work on the Whitfield Street development, marking their third development partnership project.
The scheme is set to provide 12 three-bedroom homes. Whitfield House previously sat on the site, a sheltered housing accommodation scheme that was cancelled in 2008. The land was later leased to the NHS to be used as a staff car park.
Homes on the site will be energy-efficient, designed to help residents keep their homes warm and manage their bills.
Paul McGrady, Chief Financial Officer at Magenta Living, said: "With significant demand for affordable housing across Wirral, developments like Whitfield Street are an important part of our commitment to delivering genuinely affordable homes and producing more homes for social rent."
He continued, “We have a clear target to build 1,300 new homes by 2030, with over 300 new homes already in the pipeline. Our ‘Wirral First’ strategy means over 90% of our new homes will be built in the Wirral."
The development will bring the unused land back into use at a time when around 4,700 households are on Wirral's housing register.
Richard Sterling, development and decarbonisation director at Seddon, said the project showed how smaller brownfield sites could help address housing demand.
Wirral Council leader Paula Basnett added that the development demonstrated how unused land could be brought back into use to provide affordable housing in areas where it was needed.
