Liverpool’s Local Plan – setting out how the city will meet the challenges of a growing population, regenerating neighbourhoods and employment needs over the next decade – is set to be formally adopted. Following a six week public consultation in the summer, an independent planning inspector has concluded that – subject to a number of … Read more
“It’s strange how your career can come full circle. I have worked in Liverpool 8 as a youth worker, dance teacher and a creative producer, working closely with the community, young and old, on many diverse projects in various venues across the patch. In a past life I was the Director of South Liverpool Arts … Read more
Liverpool has set out an unprecedented £1.4bn plan to help boost the nation’s post-Covid recovery and preparations for a post-Brexit economy. The city has submitted a 178-page report to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor outlining how the city aims to prevent a socio-economic crisis deeper than the 1980s recession, with a multi-layered programme which … Read more
The owners of Sciontec Liverpool have announced a major new shareholder in a boost to the city’s knowledge sector.
Lydia Fazakerley is a student at Edge Hill University and has spent the past four weeks gaining first hand experience in the Communications and Marketing Team. Lydia has told us what it’s like to live in a £1 house, one of Liverpool City Council’s innovative housing schemes. I haven’t lived in Anfield for long, 18 … Read more
As Liverpool enters the 2020s, we take a look at the plans and schemes which are set to shape the city for the decade ahead. In many ways this is a pivotal year as a series of transformational developments are set to begin – or complete – which will transform Liverpool well into the 21st century. … Read more
The dramatic removal of Liverpool’s Churchill Way flyovers enters a new phase this weekend with the removal of a key central section.
Kier Property and CTP have secured planning consent for their transformational Pall Mall office development in the heart of Liverpool’s commercial business district.
Wates Construction has received planning permission to build Liverpool City Council’s new Cruise Terminal Hotel, marking a major step forward for Peel L&P’s Liverpool Waters, the city’s major waterfront regeneration scheme.
A masterplan aimed at transforming the epicentre of Liverpool’s musical heritage is set to go out to public consultation later this month.
Liverpool City Council is to buy more than 55,000 sq metres of prime waterfront land at Kings Dock from Homes England for £1. A report to the council’s Cabinet tomorrow (Friday, 27 September) seeks approval to acquire the freehold interest for a nominal sum, to help trigger a new multi-million redevelopment programme. The purchase follows … Read more
A blockbuster filming complex set to transform the historic Littlewoods Building, creating nearly 4,000 new jobs, is to open in 2021. The former home to Littlewoods pools had been derelict for years until it was purchased by the City Council and subsequently sold to Capital and Centric property developers in 2017. A September 2018 fire threatened … Read more
Thanks to the work of a Liverpool voluntary group, the Anfield Alley Angels, the recycling rate in Anfield has increased by nearly 80% from 6% to 82% in six months. This is almost three times the current rate for Liverpool as a whole. To celebrate the success of the initiative, which was set up in … Read more
St Julie’s Catholic high School in Woolton is the latest to be opened as part of a multi-million pound investment by Liverpool City Council.
Local residents are being asked to help shape proposals for over 100 high-quality new homes in the Yew Tree area of north Liverpool by attending a community consultation event.
The green light has been given to plans to relocate the famous “Greatie” market at Great Homer Street to a new facility on Dryden Street.