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Beechwood is a housing estate situated between Bidston and Noctorum, to the west of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The estate was built in the 1960s as the Ford Estate and completed in the mid to late 1970s, to house people moving from the North End of Birkenhead and providing a better standard of living.〔(Beechwood Chapel, Who we Are ) Accessed 2014-02-06〕 Most of Beechwood is former council property, bought from Wirral Borough Council by local tenants who formed a community housing association. Some of the council houses have been sold under the Right to Buy scheme. The estate is the most northerly of three housing estates within a mile of each other, the other two being at Woodchurch and Noctorum. The estate is now separated into three sections, these being Upper Bidston Village,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Upper Bidston Village sign on Fender Way at the northern end of Beechwood )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fender Way, Birkenhead, England )〕 Beechwood and Greenfields.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greenfields sign on Fender Way, Beechwood )〕 In recent years the estate has seen significant redevelopment of the former wooded area at 6th Avenue and through the demolition of maisonettes, tower blocks and residential care homes, with the construction of new affordable homes by private investors. ==Government== Beechwood is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside. The estate is part of the parliamentary constituency of Birkenhead. The current Member of Parliament is Frank Field, a Labour representative. He has been the MP since 1979 and currently holds a majority of 15,395. The area is also part of a local government ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, this being Bidston and St. James Ward. Beechwood is represented on Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by three councillors. These are Jim Crabtree, Ann McLachlan and Harry Smith, who are all Labour councillors. Ann McLachlan is also the deputy leader of the council.〔(Borough Council, Your Councillors by Ward ) Accessed 2014-02-07〕 The most recent local elections took place on 22 May 2014. The electorate numbered 9,932, there was a turnout of 26.6% and the majority is 1,161. The result was declared at 11:57.〔(Wirral Borough Council, Election Result for Bidston and St. James ward on 22 May 2014 ) Accessed 2014-05-29〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beechwood, Merseyside」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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