The city council has asked Government to help fund developments, including a new cruise terminal and the next phase of the £1bn science and technology hub Paddington Village, as part of a £1.4bn Covid-19 economic recovery plan.
Start-up Hassett Homes has signed a joint venture deal with lender TGF Capital to build an initial 43 homes across the Liverpool City Region with a combined development value of £12m, and further schemes in future.
The Liverpool children’s hospital has won approval to turn Knotty Ash Care Home on East Prescot Road into staff offices, releasing a site to house additional health facilities.
The Government is yet to offer funding to support the Liverpool City Region rail service during the Covid-19 crash in income, despite Mayor Steve Rotheram telling a parliamentary committee this week the picture for local transport networks was “stark”.
Remediation work at the 23-acre former gardens site is permitted to start now, after the council applied to discharge planning conditions to prepare the site for the delivery of up to 1,500 homes.
Investor-developer Augur Group has won approval for its plans to convert 2,600 sq ft of vacant retail space on the ground and mezzanine floors of the seven-storey Lewis’s Building in Liverpool into additional hotel space.
A 74-apartment block in Garston and a supported living scheme on the site of the Boughtons Bedroom Design factory are expected to be approved by Liverpool’s planning committee next week.
The company proposes to redevelop Telegraph House on Moor Lane into a 67,000 sq ft scheme with retail on the ground floor and three floors of apartments for older people, after buying the property last month.
The third iteration of a project backed by former footballer Robbie Fowler has been revealed for a site on the junction of St Anne Street and Fox Street, at the former Litecraft warehouse plot in Liverpool.
The latest phase of residential development at Princes Dock has reached practical completion, a £21m, 15-storey residential scheme managed by property company Redwing.
