Liv Dev Update

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Hear from Beetham, Liverpool City Council, Peel’s Liverpool Waters, Halton Council, St Helens Council, Knowledge Quarter, LJMU, and Everton FC at Place’s annual briefing on the state of the property market in the city region.

Due to take place at Innside by Melia Liverpool on 14 November, this year’s event is sponsored by Fairhurst Architects, Freeths, Muse, Curtins, and Pegasus.

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All sectors will be covered during the morning with a mixture of panels and presentations, along with plenty of networking opportunities.

This event is expected to attract around 150 attendees. Signed up already are guests from David Miller, Cartwright Pickard, Legacie, Maldron Hotels, Homes England, WSP, Brabners, Ardent, Levitt Bernstein, Insall Architects, Savills, Walker Sime, Placefirst, City Residential, Harworth, Keepmoat, and many more besides.

What you will take away

  • Understanding of supply and demand in different market segments in the city region
  • Gauge lender and investor interest in the local market
  • Where are the hotspots that local authorities are prioritising
  • Pipeline of projects: who is doing what and where
  • New contacts for your business

Speakers confirmed

Hugh Frost (x)

Hugh Frost is the founder and chairman of Beetham. Having made his name with Liverpool’s West Tower and Beetham Tower in Manchester, Frost is making a comeback with the delivery of the King Edward project on Liverpool’s waterfront in partnership with a subsidiary of retail giant TJ Morris, having bought the seven-acre site from Peel in April. The scheme promises a cluster of major towers as part of a mixed-use development.

Richard Kenyon (x)

Richard Kenyon is the chief commercial and communications officer at Everton FC. The club’s stunning new stadium is nearing completion on the banks of the Mersey. Kenyon will share his insight into lessons learned from the prominent project and what its impact will be for North Liverpool.

Sophie Bevan (x)

Sophie Bevan is the director of regeneration at Liverpool City Council. Developers are watching closely to see the scale of ambition and delivery capabilities of the newly assembled team at the top of the local authority. Can the city succeed in luring major developers back? Bevan is at the forefront of the city’s ambitions for the future, leading the delivery of major projects that include Festival Gardens and Littlewoods.

Sam Campbell

Sam Campbell is the director of planning and building control at Liverpool City Council. She will speak about the city council’s strategy for the waterfront and its approach to tall buildings.

Chris Capes (800x600)

Chris Capes is the director of development for Liverpool Waters. Namechecked in Rachel Reeves’s first speech as chancellor as an example of how and where Labour wants to get Britain building, Liverpool Waters has a refreshed impetus with new masterplan and funding from Homes England.

Ian Ford, Pegasus, p Pegasus

Ian Ford is a director at Pegasus Group. As an active adviser on projects along the Liverpool waterfront for many years, Ford has a broad and deep knowledge of both the aspirations for the area and the challenges to getting there.

Lisa Harris is the executive director of place at St Helens Council. The council has invested £69m into phase one of a £200m masterplan to transform the town centre. St Helens Council is willing to engage with developers to make sites work.

Dr Aileen Jones (x)

Dr Aileen Jones is the pro vice chancellor for external engagement and partnerships at Liverpool John Moores University. Higher education is rarely out of the national headlines these days against a backdrop of funding challenges and access to overseas students sparking endless policy debates. How does this affect development finance for estate renewal and what can we expect to see come forward from LJMU?

Steven Knowles ( x )

Steven Knowles is a director of development management at Muse. The prolific developer is active in St Helens and is constantly on the lookout for further opportunities. How does Muse view the current market and what advice would it give to those interested in public-private partnerships?

Emily Robson (x)

Emily Robson is the assistant chief executive at Knowledge Quarter Liverpool. The poster project for Liverpool’s development scene in recent years has delivered eye-catching offices and spaces for science and technology innovators. What does the pipeline of future developments look like?

Wesley Rourke (x)Wesley Rourke is the executive director of environment and regeneration at Halton Council. Hear about the council’s regeneration priorities and how property developers can get involved in this diverse and ambitious borough between Liverpool and Warrington.

Kate Bull is the director of economy strategy, skills, and sustainability at Liverpool City Council. Bull is responsible for crafting the path forward for Liverpool’s economy. Expect to hear her discuss the role of life sciences, tourism, and the commercial sector plays in the city.

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Great line-up and sure to be an interesting event with lots of exciting projects happening across the LCR – hopefully some tough and reasonable questions will be asked about how we turn the positive talk into positive delivery.

By Anonymous

If questions are allowed it would be useful to ask what actually is the strategy for the Ten Streets, as at present mixed messages are going out that it is an area in transition, but some investors are being told applications are being refused because they are not in keeping with the industrial make up in that location. Also some applications for bars are being refused while others allowed, just don`t get it, also the Bonded Tea Warehouse lays unused when a trusted developer had an application for residential refused due to a parking issue.

By Anonymous

    Questions are always allowed at Place North West events, and encouraged! We ask attendees to send them on the day using Slido. Will pass on your comment to the event chair, Paul Unger.

    By Julia Hatmaker

Offices. Pall Mall we have had no tangible news on for years. What is being done to encourage office development and improve take up as Liverpool lags behind almost every major and even not so major UK city in this regard. The Martins Bank renovation to grade A offices has made no progress since Kinrise pulled out, anything being done to get it going again? The one in Manchester has a new developer on board but for Liverpool, nothing. How does a city the size of Liverpool have no current office development under construction?

By Anonymous

Sam Campbell, really needs to be challenged on the slow and very often confusing messages her planning department sends out. It really seems they go out of their way to say no, don’t they realise the prosperity of the city’s economy depends on new investment and employment opportunities.

By Liverpool4Progress

Only 9 working cranes in the Liverpool area + empty planning agendas dominated by small scale HMOs. We where promised serious progress but that crane count is pitiful. What’s going on?

By Anonymous

Will Kate Bull from LCC be able to explain the economic strategy for the city, which logic might tell us does not include building offices in Pall Mall as the city is struggling to get a developer to build even 200,000 sq ft if offices here.
Meanwhile the LCC cabinet member for growth and the economy has nothing to report of any major importance, and that’s been the case for many months.

By Anonymous

What is the latest on the Infinity Towers development, or not as the case may be ?

By Anonymous

Be interesting to see both Hugh Frost and Sam Campbell on the same platform.
The first who wants to build a cluster of by far Liverpool’s tallest buildings, while the second has been pivotal in persuading developers that they can’t build beyond mid rise in most cases and only in a very small number no more than 30 storeys.

By Anonymous

Be worth it just to hear from Hugh Frost, who at least has a track record of delivery unlike others on the panel. The lack of real development activity in the city-region – no new commercial space in central Liverpool, no real progress on stalled sites, unfunded town centre schemes etc. is painful despite the bluster of some local politicians.

By Anonymous

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