Festival Gardens receives £10m funding boost

Plans for a bus layover hub at Old Haymrket in Liverpool city centre have been approved, in the face of opposition from councillors and business figures including Signature Living’s Lawrence Kenwright.

Liverpool City Council has suggested there are “compelling arguments” for expanding the city’s World Heritage Site to include areas such as Rodney Street, Chinatown, and Hartley’s southern docks, with a feasibility study due to be put together in the coming months.

Liverpool City Council has won a Government grant to support the development of two heat networks at Paddington Village and along the waterfront.

Despite fierce local opposition, planning permission has been granted for the controversial replacement of Bixteth Street Gardens, a nine-month programme that forms the first part of CTP and Kier Property’s £200m Pall Mall development.

Developer Elliot Group is to begin work immediately on the refurbishment of a listed Georgian terrace in Liverpool’s Canning neighbourhood following the resolution of a right-of-way issue. 

Liverpool City Council is to transfer its ownership of the site of England’s first mosque to support the development of an Islamic Heritage and Enterprise Centre.

Peel Energy is to develop a district heat network at Liverpool Waters development, under the name of Mersey Heat.

Ahead of the first detailed planning application being put forward at Kier and CTP's £200m Pall Mall Exchange in Liverpool, landscape architect Re-Form has outlined its designs for a 32,000 sq ft "green square" at the heart of the 10-acre masterplan.

The World Heritage Committee has approved the city’s status at its annual summit, but it remains on a list of “sites in danger”, a position it has held since Peel’s vast Liverpool Waters scheme was approved in 2012.