Hunt starts for Liverpool waterfront strategy team
“A highly experienced and exceptional consultancy team, which has both international and local recognition” is sought to reimagine the city’s iconic waterfront along the River Mersey.
Liverpool City Council has begun the tender process for a consultancy team to develop its waterfront strategy, with expressions of interest due before 12 January 2024. The opportunity can be seen on Proactis with the opportunity ID of DN701841.
The estimated value of the contract is £196,000, with a projected start date of 12 February 2024 and an end date of 31 March 2025.
Liverpool City Council wants the future waterfront strategy document to “set a creative and ambitious vision for its evolution, to ensure future transformation creates successful neighbourhoods, helping local communities and the wider city thrive,” according to the Proactis listing.
The strategic document will focus on the six miles between Festival Gardens and Bramley-Moore Dock, guiding its development over the next 15 years. Upon its completion, it will be adopted as a supplementary planning document.
The intention to craft a waterfront strategy was announced in September. At the time, Cllr Nick Small, the city council’s cabinet member for city development, said: “This is an amazing opportunity and I hope the appointed team approaches the challenge with the imagination and verve befitting a world-class city”.
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By Anonymous
Great. But will it get past the planning committee?
By Anonymous
Sounds great but it might help if backward councillors can actually embrace growth rather than deter it.
By Paul8
Imagine if someone wanted to build the liver building today. It would be deemed to big and reduced to 3 stories.
By HR3
Seems to me they talk but never walk.
By Anonymous
But what’s the point?
By Anonymous
Committee needs dealing with first
By Anonymous
After the planning committee’s latest refusal of a 13 storey apartment block why are we bothering. Whatever is proposed will be questioned as to it’s affordability and look, as everything has to comply with the ideas of the comrades on the committee. God help us when the Festival Gardens plans are revealed, as if they don’t equate with the dumbest of designs and a height of 2 floors then it’s got no chance. The baseline is no one in Liverpool is allowed to be wealthy or display individuality by wanting to live in a high-rise.
By Anonymous
There’ll be a building there one day. I hope I’m still topside. Nice old cgi though.
By Capn Ahab.
I think its a good idea, and a step in the right direction.
Why is everyone so negative, really feeds into the stereotype about Scousers being unhappy with everyone all the time.
By Anonymous
Scousers are more down to earth than Mancs
By Anonymous
Utterly pointless until the planning committee is reformed or brought dragging and screaming into the 21st century. The ambition of any plan will be curtailed by the knowledge that anything with any massing will be rejected.
By Anonymous
Taking a long long time !
By George
only for planning to reject anything put forward by them
By Anonymous
Yet another plan and yet another strategy for our beloved waterfront that will come to create absolutely nothing in the same way that many others have that have gone before it. Call me cynical but I have heard it all before…….regularly.
By Brendan R
Rather than commissioning an outside agency to come up with a waterfront strategy is there any way that LCC can harness the energy and enthusiasm that many correspondents to ‘Place North West’ clearly have for the future development of not just the waterfront but for the city and region as a whole? I think that would be a really valuable and as yet untapped resource to utilise. The many correspondents clearly care about our city and what is happening to it.
By Brendan R
I’d be disappointed if I wasn’t so apathetic . Wait for the hoopla when they come up with a plan only for the hoopla to be replaced by the reality of the hiss of a deflating bouncy castle, the deafening roar of silence and the gentle distant rustle of tumbleweed as hopes and dreams once again take flight upon the breeze. Still.., mustn’t grumble.
By Nimrod
Liverpool City Council wasting another £196000. Not one proposal of any significance or size will be passed. This weeks planning decisions summed up the continued, anti development ethos voiced by the council.
By Stephen Davis