Liverpool City Region Development Update 2026

In 2017, Rotheram was elected as the first ever Liverpool City Region Mayor, representing 1.6m people across the boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and the Wirral and was subsequently re-elected in 2021. Since taking office, he has created 60,000 jobs, 30,000 apprenticeships and 30,000 homes. He has taken the historic decision to take back control of the region’s buses, launched a new £500m fleet of publicly owned fleet of trains, and led the region’s economic recovery from the pandemic with a £150m COVID Recovery Fund. In 2024, Rotheram was elected for a third term as Mayor with 68% of the vote, his highest personal mandate and more than any other elected Mayor in the country.

Alexander specialises in Real Estate matters. He has acted for a range of clients both domestically and internationally, covering private and public sectors. He is able to act on the acquisition and disposal of property, landlord and tenant matters and property finance. Alexander's experience includes acting for developers, investors and lenders (primary, secondary and tertiary) covering transactions in the residential, commercial, retail, industrial and care sectors.

O'Boyle is an architect specialising in regeneration, infrastructure, and place-making projects across the UK. After working at Hawkins\Brown in London on the delivery of landmark projects including Tottenham Court Road Crossrail Station and the Thames Tideway Tunnel, she relocated to Manchester in 2017 to lead major regeneration and infrastructure projects. She has delivered Strategic Regeneration Frameworks, business cases and visioning studies for numerous local authorities and is currently leading the Liverpool Central Strategic Regeneration Framework on behalf of Liverpool City Council, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Platform 4.