Approximate Population: 64,100

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, was nearly included into the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, when that was formed on 1 April 1974. It was removed from the proposals before the Local Government Act 1972 had its first reading, and instead remained in Cheshire as part of the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston. The two towns, and the other villages that comprised the borough, are places on the Wirral Peninsula that are not part of Merseyside.

In 2007, plans were announced which proposed combining the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston with the Chester and Vale Royal districts to form a new “West Cheshire” unitary authority. On 25 July 2007, following a consultation period, the name of the new unitary authority was officially announced to be City of Chester and West Cheshire. This was the subsequently renamed Cheshire West and Chester Council and the Conservatives won control of this Council in elections in May 2008, including winning a majority of seats in the Ellesmere Port area for the first time. The new unitary authority came ito being on 1 April 2009.

The town continues to grow and expand, and more housing estates and shops are being built. The industrial sector is still a major employer in the town although in recent years, a number of factories have been closed and jobs lost.

The Vauxhall plant at Ellesmere Port is now Vauxhall’s only car factory in Britain since the closure of the Luton plant in 2004, and currently produces the Astra and Vectra models for the British market. Doubts over the plant’s future were ended in 2007 when General Motors confirmed that the next generation Astra will be built at the plant when it is launched in 2010.  The Vectra’s replacement is also expected to be built at the plant from 2008.

Chartered Surveyors Ellesmere Port Cheshire

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