Festival Gardens clean-up to begin in spring

This year will see fresh services launched including a development map to complement news stories and branded content production for partners.

Liverpool-based charities Kind and Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust have launched the search for a multi-disciplinary design team to deliver the long-awaited restoration of the grade two-listed Welsh Presbyterian Church in Toxteth. 

The Victorian Society has highlighted the 10 buildings "most at risk of further dilapidation and loss" across the UK, including sites in Liverpool, Cheshire, and Manchester.

The city council has been given an extra £652,000 by the Government to accelerate the delivery of its clean air plan, due to be delivered by the end of October.

The Mayor of Liverpool has pitched the £230m bid to Boris Johnson’s new Government in a bid to boost the city’s economy through new powers and funding, including incentives for the private sector to build more energy-efficient homes.

Peel L&P has appointed Leep Utilities to provide electricity to the development to support future phases of the £5bn project.

The Merseyside Pension Fund has backed Peel Energy’s plans for a district heat network to support the delivery of the wider £5bn Liverpool Waters site.

The Metro Mayor has chosen a team of consultants including Arup, ABPmer, BECG, and Grant Thornton to draw up an outline business case for a tidal power scheme on the Mersey, one of the key elements of the city region's plan to be zero-carbon by 2040.

The council will press on with a district heat network for Paddington Village in the city’s Knowledge Quarter, with energy provider Vital picked to deliver the project.