Final sign-off for £50m Patagonia Place 

HGB Advisory has been appointed to push through the sale of the developer's £70m Liverpool scheme after a deal for investors take over the stalled project fell through. 

Property developers have been routinely put off building in the city after conversations with the council caused them to doubt decisions would be made fairly and objectively, said the author of a damning report into the authority’s operations.

Work has started to transform a swathe of land next to the Strand shopping centre into an events and leisure space that is due to open this summer. 

Developer Torus has released two potential designs for the redevelopment of Liverpool FC’s famous former training ground in West Derby into almost 200 homes. 

A new station building and additional car parking spaces are to be created after Liverpool City Region Combined Authority agreed to fund the St Helens project. 

Having been declared bankrupt in January, the man behind several troubled Liverpool developments is now being investigated by the Insolvency Service. 

Government officials are to take over the running of Liverpool City Council amid an ongoing corruption investigation by Merseyside Police, communities secretary Robert Jenrick is expected to announce this week.

Baroness Vere has agreed to examine a report produced last year by consultancy Arup on behalf of Sefton Council, which sets out alternatives to building a controversial link road between Switch Island and Princess Way.