Liverpool Waters heat network secures £13m loan

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.

National Museums Liverpool is looking to appoint a masterplanner as it seeks to improve its holdings in the city’s maritime quarter into an "outstanding visitor destination".

Homes England is to provide a grant of £9.9m to facilitate the development of up to 1,500 homes at Liverpool’s Festival Gardens site.

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.