Seddon starts St Helens school

Proposals for 236 houses and a 100-bed care home will head to committee next week with the council pushing forward the scheme “to avoid the planning process being blamed” for construction delays.

Mulbury and Magenta Living are in line to secure consent for the 19-acre site after more than halving housing numbers to 243.

Liverpool City Region is to provide nearly £4m towards industrial projects in Aintree, St Helens, Wirral, and Knowsley, including grants for developers Redsun and Network Space.

The housebuilder has advanced plans for 162 homes within the wider East Halewood masterplan on a site currently used by the Liverpool branch of the RSPCA, and home to the grave of Blackie the War Horse.

After buying the 117,000 sq ft building from Columbia Threadneedle in May this year, Prosperity Developments and Gape Equity have secured permission for a 59-apartment conversion.

A public consultation is due by the end of the year into plans by Viking New Brighton, advised by Paddock Johnson Partnership, for a hotel and apartments on the Wallasey waterfront.

The bank has been given the go-ahead to build a 220,000 sq ft campus for more than 2,500 staff in Bootle.

A local parish council in Widnes has called for Halton Council to be stripped of its planning powers after winning a judicial review to stop construction of a waste transfer station in Hale Bank.