Consultation to start on Ten Streets framework

Director David Pike said the growing trend of shopping centres spending more on in-house entertainment has a damaging knock-on effect to seasonal retailers' performance.

Liverpool City Council has released images from its public consultation on the city's proposed permanent cruise terminal, held this week.

Simon Mann, chief executive of developer Augur, said he is keen to expand in Liverpool after completing the purchase of Lewis’s and five acres next to the former department store in the city centre.

The diverse development, residential, construction and services group with 300 staff in the region enjoyed rising profit and turnover in the year to July.

Mayors and leaders from Liverpool City Region, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority have discussed further the formation of a body that will provide a strong, unified voice for the north.

Retail and leisure lettings in Liverpool and Manchester have been heavily weighted towards food and beverage in the last 18 months, despite a slowdown in expansion by national brands, the consultancy said.

More than 2,700 delegates gathered in Liverpool for this year’s Revo retail property conference and exhibition which opened today.

Investor developer Augur has acquired the landmark 400,000 sq ft Lewis’s Building in Liverpool, along with surrounding land to make up a five-acre scheme it will market as The Circus.