Wallasey

United Kingdom Coastal 2 - Good

The bathing water is situated on the north west coast of England, on the Wirral; sitting between New Brighton Beach to the east and Moreton Beach to the west. It has a wide expanse of sand with a shallow profile to Liverpool Bay. There are sea defences (concrete steps and banking) at the back of the beach with car parking behind, at a regular height high tide the sea does not extend to the concrete banking.

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Water

Coastal bathing water

Location

Wirral, Merseyside, Wirral District

Season

Designated bathing water since 1988. Official monitoring season runs from May to September.

Water Quality

Good (2025). Assessed under rBWD

Risks

The New Brighton Pumping Station was upgraded by United Utilities in 2008 to reduce the number of discharges made during the summer. The improvements were designed to protect bathing water quality at Wallasey bathing water.
There are six surface water outfalls that can be seen at Wallasey beach. There should be no impact on the bathing water quality at the beach as the outfalls should only discharge clean surface water.
There is also a disused outfall near the beach. There is no impact on bathing water quality from this outfall.
Under the programme of work for United Utilities (from 2015 to 2020) all storm overflows close to bathing waters have had equipment installed to monitor spills to the environment. This will help to identify where bathing water improvements may be needed in the future.