Venues rush to be ready for Everton kick-off

Shame the council want to stop everybody parking!!!! I get it in housing areas, but there are roads wheee parking was not and never would be a problem, and yet still they put yellow lines or restrictions on. And dont tell me it aint true!!!! I parked roughley between goodison and bramlet for 40 yrs and now i cant!!!! Why!!!???? Pathetic

Why these proposals take longer than the statutory period of 13 weeks is beyond me. Anyone reading this wanting to invest in the area wil be thinking why bother.

All this unorganisation represents what Liverpool city council have been like for decades. They are all over the place. That whole area should have been redeveloped by now or near completion. Unprofessional on all levels but they will never learn and people will continue to vote them in 😵‍💫

An investigation needs to be carried out as to why the surrounding streets have not had a masterplan, cpo’s to clear vacant derelict buildings, new developments, literally anything happen to the immediate area. It doesn’t take a town planner to realise that a Merseyrail station should have been developed on Boundary Street with the adjacent plots developed for bars, restaurants, retail with hotels and apartments above – maybe called Everton Avenue. Existing businesses could have been moved with financial assistance. This would have been the perfect arrival for fans with a very short walk to the stadium and places to spend lots of money in Liverpool and boost the economy and create jobs. Boundary Street could have been configured so it could be closed to traffic on busy match days so fans have more space.

We have worked with the Terrace bar which opened last weekend, this is a great venue with a lot of effort been put in to creating a great venue not only for match days but to enhance what the area will offer moving forward, development will ripple along the “Dock Road” a focus on quality and long term ventures is essential avoiding the operators looking for a quick buck.

I love the panic in all of these applications, the shock that a 52000 seater stadium got dropped off over night… 1640 capacity is 3% of the capacity.. 140 of them in shipping containers!!! What a shame that the council couldn’t capitalise on the stadium by putting things in place 5 years ago.

The land taken up by the Holy Trinity Marquee deserves something better, such as an apartment block, which may happen as the Marquee is temporary for 2 years. The immediate land round there should become a small neighbourhood and give life to the location 7 days a week. Any hotels round there won’t just benefit from Everton, as I’m sure lots of matchgoing Kopites will look for rooms round there.

People don’t vote for planning officers…

Great to see LCC’s planning officer – who found the time to attend the licensing committee – firmly put back in their place and rebuked for making irrelevant comments by the licensing committee chair. The Howard Kendall Suite’s licence was granted, and now LCC planning should do the right thing, grant planning permission, and stop playing silly games that undermine investment.

Complete and utter farce

The council have literally had years to sort out infrastructure and hospitality around the stadium. Two weeks before the start of the season they are arguing with applicants who want to build food and drink outlets. This situation is unbelievable but typical of the way the council operates. I suggest Evertonians take a flask and some butties.

I think some of the blame should lay with Peel, let’s face it if it wasn’t for the Everton Stadium none of this embryonic investment would be happening along Regent Rd, as Peel have had years to do something and haven’t, but have just received £55m from the Government towards infrastructure works. Some of the new venues, like the Bluehouse, look really good, and it does look like further investment will happen in the near future but the Mayor needs to seize the moment and build a Merseyrail station somewhere nearby, while the Council need to encourage investment as there is ample land for residential, leisure,and industrial uses.

They even struggle to build a food venue due to the lack of support from the council, you couldn’t make it up !! but the people of Liverpool think they are marvellous when it comes to voting

@Anonymous 09.39 There is a Merseyrail station nearby – it’s called Sandhills and it’s just 11 minutes away. The issue is that the station platform capacity allied with signalling capacity and the relative inflexibility of staffing rosters mean that there’ll never be the capacity available to handle the demand placed upon them.

@August 07, 2025 at 9:39 am Anonymous. Some of the blame should lay with Peel? They may be a landowner of Liverpool Waters and sold off the site for the stadium but how are they to blame for the lack of venues, planning and licensing together with the market dynamics that create investment.

Will they build some tea room’s nearby? Not everybody wants to drink beer!!

Can we have a fish market here instead

@ Anon 10.38am, if there was another station around the Stanley Locks location then passengers from town could alight there thus putting less pressure on Sandhills, any the locals around Vauxhall and the Eldonians would benefit from a new station as well as any new residents as there are planning applications for new flats which would boost the population further round there.

If you go to a game at old Trafford all the local businesses sub let their space to football fans.
Why not allow that by the Hill Dickinson

Let them goahead

Can you park on the other side of the river and get a ferry across the Mersey to the ground ?

@ Tony Bond, depends where you are based, you can get a ferry from Seacombe to Liverpool, normally one per hour, and walk to the Everton Stadium from there. However you could easily park near a Merseyrail station, say Birkenhead Park, where trains go to Liverpool about every 10 mins.

Absolute joke that nothing has been done in the 5 years since they started building the stadium. Heard a few people blaming Everton football club for lack of effort. But this has got nothing to do with Everton FC.its all down to the Liverpool city Council…I can bet your bottom dollar that infrastructure would of been put in place if the other lot were moving to a new Stadium.

Looks very smart and get transport sorted out then everybody will be happy.

I see now that the local councillor has expressed his concern about the number of bars and licensing applications being made near the Everton Stadium. He says its a nice area and too many bars will not be a good look in this location. Here we go again, councillors objecting to investment, how about this Councillor having a vision for the area which includes residential which will provide footfall and custom for these bars and then other businesses will follow like cafes, local shops, mini-markets,etc.
A lot of these Liverpool councillors are experts at blocking things but find it difficult to come up with positive visions.

Why’s it took so long for all these businesses to submit planning apps?

Possibly because of Everton’s financial problems there may have been doubt as to whether the stadium build would run smoothly, but we now see the fantastic outcome. Some businesses like The Bluehouse had no doubts and cracked on with their development and it’s a triumph, as is the Terrace Bar next door.
Others places like Ten Streets Social have upped their game and it was rammed on Saturday, as was Invisible Wind Factory.
Most of the makeshift bars won’t last as I can see developers wanting to share in the positive atmosphere that Everton have created and I expect to see a lot more building taking place in the next few years.