Old Haymarket bus hub returns to planners

The two roads, opened in the 1970s as part of Liverpool’s abandoned inner ring road scheme, will be demolished in the summer after a review found both were “no longer adequate to carry vehicles or pedestrians”.

Haulage firm JWT Commercial has expanded its footprint at the Port of Liverpool with an investment in five acres, as Peel Ports suggested that Brexit-linked congestion at rival ports could provide further opportunities.

Liverpool's Great Howard Street will be closed to inbound traffic for four weeks under the latest phase of a £22m upgrade.

A £47m overhaul of roads in Liverpool city centre will start on Monday 4 February with contractor Graham kicking off works on Victoria Street through to the Queensway Tunnel.

The Old Haymarket bus hub and the restart of work at Norfolk Street, a residential scheme now owned by Crossfield Exclusive, lead the agenda at Liverpool City Council's first planning committee of 2019.

Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson has quit George Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership, accusing the current Chancellor Philip Hammond of being “determined to poison and kill off” his predecessor’s legacy.

Contractor Graham will start on a major overhaul of roads in the centre of Liverpool in January this year, including the addition of a bus hub at Old Haymarket and improved routes into the Knowledge Quarter.

The Isle of Man Government has released designs for the proposed ferry terminal at Princes Half Tide Dock ahead of a planning application next month.

Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has revealed he and the Liverpool City Region leaders are considering the potential for an overhead railway to return to the waterfront.