Liverpool ramps up Anfield Square redevelopment with acquisitions
The long-awaited regeneration of a vacant plot of land in the shadow of Liverpool FC’s stadium has taken a step forward after the city council acquired Your Housing Group’s remaining land interests.
Liverpool City Council has paid £381,000 to housing association YHG for 18 leasehold and freehold titles remaining from when there were still houses on the 2.5-acre Anfield Square site.
The plot has been cleared and the YHG deal will allow the authority to move towards being able to market the site with a clean title and “enable the realisation of the long-term regeneration vision for this site”, the council said.
The city council intends to bring the site to market alone after failing to agree a business case with YHG for the redevelopment of the plot and turning down an approach from the football club to deliver a hotel there, according to council documents.
The authority wants to deliver a “best-in-class development comprising a mix of leisure, entertainment, and employment uses, encouraging public interaction and providing essential public amenities”, the documents state.
An options analysis is currently being undertaken to design a development brief for the redevelopment of the site.
Last October, Place North West reported the council is looking at short-term uses to activate the site before a longer-term solution is drawn up.
The meanwhile use could be brought forward in partnership with the football club, the council confirmed last year.
The authority’s Anfield Spatial Regeneration Framework refers to the site as “a significant development opportunity capable of accommodating a range of uses to improve the vibrancy and economic potential of the area”.
Let consultation merry go round begin!
By Anonymous
Move Wallton Breck Road so the Kop can be expanded, this infrastructure project could have the backing of the Government so as to provide the catalyst for more housing and job opportunities plus an expanded Anfield stadium, or is that only applicable to Manchester and it’s ambitions for OT?
By Liverpolitis
Please consider investment that will benefit the residents and encourage visitors to spend with local businesses outside of the football season. The neighbourhood see Airbnb all year round and these visitors need to be encouraged to spend locally
By Anonymous
Ironic they want a “best in class” development when one of the reasons funding was pulled from the nearby Homebaked Oakfield Terrace scheme was that the specs for the houses (zero-carbon refit) was deemed too expensive for the land values in the area.
“Best in class” as long as its only working class eh?
By Anonymous
“The council looking at short-term uses before a long term solution is drawn up”, and that’s why there’ll be no Government involvement cos they don’t really have a clue what they want to do in the next 5 years.
By Anonymous
They have totally ruined the whole area over many years, it’s disgraceful and nothing is ever said about it.
By John
Expand Merseyrail and have an underground station with the entrance in the ‘square’ perfect for fans but more so for local people to be better connected and help job growth.
By GetItBuilt!
Liverpolitics – Areas around many sports stadiums have benefited from some public money including: Man City, West Ham, Everton to name a few, I’d also be amazed if some public money hasn’t already gone into the regeneration of the Anfield area near Liverpool FC’s stadium. Public/Private partnerships often makes the development world go around.
By Anonymous
Wish someone would do something about the parking chaos every matchday, people parking everywhere grass verges the lot, build a car park.
By Lin
Both LFC and EFC should be made to do more to help the areas around them – they make enough money from their stadia and their fans! And both are in areas that could really do with a lot more help!
By Bob Dawson
@ Bob Dawson. don’t you think Everton and Liverpool are doing plenty already to help the local economies around their stadiums. On each match day the pubs and cafes are full to bursting and obviously on European match nights at Anfield the air b&b’s are in great demand. Now consider the silly parking restrictions that the City Council have imposed on and around the new Everton Stadium and these are already harming the local businesses.
By Anonymous
Why turn down a proposal from the club?
By Observer
When will the penny drop around the need to open a train station nearer to the stadium serving the wider Anfield, Breckfield and Everton areas?
By Anonymous
Why doesnt the club get the land, offer to build a church and new properties to relocate the ones behind the kop (as part of a mixed use scheme, small boutique hotel?) And work with the council to demolish behind kop and move the road, put a small roundabout at petrol station to reduce car speeds
By Jay