English Cities Fund, the consortium of Muse Developments, Legal & General and Homes England, and St Helens Council have committed to regenerating the Merseyside town, including delivering a potential £200m mixed-use scheme.
The hotel developer and operator is to open the grade two-listed Rainhill Hall in St Helens after converting it into a 47-bedroom hotel and wedding venue, following a year of financial difficulty for the wider group.
The developer, part of housebuilder Keepmoat Homes, with regeneration specialist Torus, has acquired a vacant site at Lancots Lane to redevelop into 63 homes.
Chancerygate's refreshed plans for industrial space at the former Peerless refinery site on Dunnings Bridge Road have secured the go-ahead from Sefton’s planning committee.
The council aims to launch a procurement process in January to appoint a development partner to build it an 81,000 sq ft headquarters in Huyton to kickstart a wider regeneration of the town.
The combined authority has awarded £214,000 to three initiatives to tackle racial divides in the city-region, including a pilot to expand the work of the International Slavery Museum within the grade one-listed former Dock Traffic Office.
The vocational education provider has signed a five-year lease to occupy the entire 13,000 sq ft historic building, after taking two floors at the former Tyrers department store on Bridge Street in September.
The industrial developer expects to receive permission next week to add 7,000 sq ft to its existing 95,000 sq ft consent for 12 units at the former Peerless Edible Oils factory near Liverpool, in response to high market demand.
The developer has received £2.05m from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to help fund infrastructure works to progress its 240-unit residential development in St Helens.
Wirral Growth Company has hired demolition specialist PP O’Connor to knock down part of the retail complex in Birkenhead and aims to start building 150,000 sq ft of offices at the site by the middle of next year.
