SOG chases £400m for Heath Park vision

One Vision Housing, part of Sovini Group, has completed its latest rent-to-buy scheme, comprising 47 homes in Birkenhead.

A police and fire station residential conversion, and a Home Bargains store are also expected to receive planning permission next week.

Following the closure of one of the pools in April last year, repair works have completed and the sports facility is set to reopen on Monday 9 March.

Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, has set up an independent commission aimed at creating a vision for 17 town centres to ensure their “prosperous and sustainable long-term future”.

The council will ask the people of Kirkby for their suggestions on a revamped town centre, after residents group Vision Kirkby drew up a detailed proposal that objected to further housing.

The developer has acquired 12 Hanover Street, a five-storey, grade two-listed building, for around £4m with a view to creating what it claims would be the city’s first five-star hotel.

A petrol station and three drive-through restaurants are set to form part of the wider East Maghull development, according to the latest plans from Blackburn-based Euro Garages Group.

The latest application in the 1,500-home East Halewood urban extension in Knowsley proposes 413 homes across two plots, of 10 and 30 acres.

Wirral Growth Company, a joint venture between the council and Muse Developments, has been given the go ahead for a £1bn project to regenerate Birkenhead town centre with planning applications for the commercial district expected this June.