Four projects across Liverpool City Region, including the redevelopment of Littlewood Studios and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, have received a combined total of £26m from Whitehall’s Getting Building Fund.
The city council is creating a strategic board to lead on the delivery of council housing and other stock, significantly scaling back the role of arms length management organisation Liverpool Foundation Homes.
Around 130 retail and hospitality businesses have signed an open letter supporting a controversial plan to install a zip wire between two Liverpool landmarks following widespread criticism, saying it could provide a shot in the arm to the struggling sectors.
Housing association director Tracey Gore has been seconded to chair a taskforce aimed at reducing racial inequality across the city.
With socially distanced live performances now approved by Government, Liverpool City Council and Arts Council England have announced a £200,000 pilot project to fund performing and visual art in the city’s streets.
The city region has set up an economic recovery taskforce aimed at lifting the local economy after a bruising from the lockdown.
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram have written a joint letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning that the Government’s easing of lockdown restrictions comes “too early” for the region, which is working hard to curb the spread of Covid-19.
The Prime Minister has pledged to re-examine allocations from Whitehall to help Liverpool and Knowsley tackle the economic fallout of Covid-19, after the city region slammed the support it has received during the crisis.
As the region’s property community draws up plans for a phased move out of lockdown, the process of making a safe return to the office is being approached with caution, according to managing directors across Manchester and Liverpool.
The Greater Manchester and Liverpool mayors said town centre regeneration plans could take a different course in the wake of the pandemic, and pressed the Government to deliver adequate funding to help the region emerge from lockdown.
