00:00Across Merseyside, development plans are bringing change to transport public spaces and community facilities.
00:07On the Wirral, two new bus services are part of the return of the local network to public control.
00:13The 453 is set to link Irby and Heswell with Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
00:17Circular services numbered 483 and 484 are planned to connect Arrow Park Hospital with West Kirby, Mells, Hoylake, Morton, Shogalmassey
00:27and Upton.
00:27The wider changes are intended to bring more evening and weekend services and better links with Merseyside stations.
00:34In Liverpool City Centre, a dedicated hub for care-experienced young people could be established in Williamson Square.
00:41More than 800 young people up to the age of 25 receive support from the council, but services currently operate
00:47from temporary accommodation for one day a week.
00:50A report proposes spending £458,000 to fit our premises under a 10-year lease.
00:56The hub would offer drop-in support, private appointments, social space, laundry services and advice.
01:02Estimated running costs of around £180,000 a year would be met from existing service budgets.
01:09Meanwhile, Wirral councils working towards removing the brightly covered road markings that earned Grange Road West in Beckenhead, the nickname
01:17Watsit Street.
01:18The design was introduced as a traffic-calming trial, but the councils decided to remove the markings and street furniture
01:25after significant public concern.
01:27The plan cost around £300,000.
01:31Council leader Paula Basner described the spending as a waste of money while maintaining traffic-calming measures when needed and
01:37arguing the road should be one way.
01:39The planters and street furniture have been moved elsewhere.
01:42Preparations for resurfacing are continuing, although the timing depends on other work.
01:47Elsewhere, residents in Irby are continuing to raise concerns about an unauthorised encampment on privately owned Green Beltland off Townsend
01:56Avenue.
01:57Caravans and machinery moved on to the site in late summer and the council issued a temporary stop notice requiring
02:02certain operational and engineering works to stop.
02:05The notice is temporary and residents want clarity about what happens afterwards.
02:10Residents told the council's planning committee they'd experienced anxiety and disruption.
02:14The committee chair said a retrospective planning application had been submitted, but it was not yet valid because more detail
02:21was needed.
02:22Finally, work on a £30m sewer improvement project at The Mystery is being paused, while United Utilities carries out further
02:30ground investigations and engineering studies.
02:32The company is restoring the grass and plans to remove the hoardings once the grass is taken, allowing the affected
02:39area to return to public use during the pause.
02:42The proposed underground tank would hold 5.5 million litres of rainwater and is intended to help reduce flooding, including
02:49around Queen's Drive.
02:50No date has been confirmed for construction to restart.
02:54And that's your round-up of the latest developments across Merseyside.
