Jobs and economic benefit of Hoylake Golf Resort

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Ephraim Schoenberg

Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,

there is comment on the Stop Hoylake Golf Resort Facebook page that £600k would produce more jobs than the Hoylake Golf Resort scheme and be of greater economic benefit (to the entire Borough).

Please could you tell me what evidence Wirral Council has showing these statements to be incorrect?

The Facebook page says that giving the money to the charities who find jobs for the unemployed would have a better result (more jobs and increased income to the Borough). Will the £600k spent by the Council produce more jobs and have greater benefit for the Borough?

I understand from the Facebook page that roughly £1million has been spent by Wirral Council on the scheme so far. Was it spent entirely within the Borough on companies and employers based within the Borough? If not, how much was?

Thank you for your replies which I hope will lay to rest the arguments on the Facebook page.

I am new to asking freedom of information questions so if I have asked in the wrong way, please will you advise me.

Yours faithfully,

Ephraim Schoenberg

InfoMgr, FinDMT, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Schoenberg

 

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Hoylake Golf resort.

 

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 gives a right of access to recorded
information.  Wirral Council can advise that it does not hold any recorded
information on the merits or otherwise of the job creation scheme referred
in your FOI request.

 

Detailed information concerning the economic and regenerative benefits of
the proposed Golf Resort will be produced and published in due course as
part of the process to secure planning permission and further public
consultation will give people ample opportunity to express their views in
support or otherwise. This will be the appropriate forum for such debate
and exchange of opinions.            

 

Regarding the project development fees expended to date, the services
required by the Council have all gone through various tendering processes
designed to ensure the firms appointed score the highest in terms of both
the quality of their work and the value for money of the price for their
services measured against other tendered bids. It would be
anti-competitive to specify that only local firms could tender and
counter-productive given the majority of the expertise can only be
provided by large multi-disciplinary consultancies that are based outside
Wirral. None of the firms appointed are headquartered in Wirral although
one firm, AECOM, have an office located in Liverpool.       

 

You have the right under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
to ask for an internal review of this decision.  Please direct any request
for an internal review to [1][Wirral Borough Council request email].   If you
were dissatisfied with the result of your internal review, you also have
the right to complain to the Information Commissioner at 
[2]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Lynette Paterson

Senior Information Management Officer

Business Services - Digital

 

Treasury Building

Cleveland Street

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH41 6BL

Tel: 0151 691 8201

[Wirral Borough Council request email]

 

 

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Ephraim Schoenberg

Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
thank you for your reply.

Yours sincerely,

Ephraim Schoenberg