Two new attractions planned at Knowsley Safari

Charity Age UK Mid Mersey has spent £3m restoring the grand Victorian house that it uses as its headquarters.

Historic shop fronts on two streets in Prescot town centre will be restored in five separate projects due to share £250,000 from the national lottery’s Townscape Heritage Initiative.

With the UK’s in-out referendum on EU membership in the offing, it is worth considering just how much the outcome might impact North West property and regeneration. Neil Tague looks at some of the key areas of the market and asks 'what have the Europeans ever done for us?'

Maggie Mullan Architects is to start work next month on a masterplan for the National Wildflower Centre, a seasonal eco-visitor attraction in Knowsley which exhibits nature displays, community projects and wildflower heritage.

Clan Contracting has been awarded two contracts as part of a £2.8m scheme to restore part of the historic Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight conservation area, Wirral.

Liverpool City Council is seeking to acquire the 85-acre site in Riverside Drive from Langtree Group in order to bring forward "a world-class cultural destination" in the park and a large housing scheme.

Redsun Developments' has completed the acquisition from the West Register, the Royal Bank of Scotland property subsidiary, of a five-acre development site next to the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, Wirral.

Images of the new Port Sunlight River Park in Bromborough have been released, ahead of the opening on Tuesday 12 August. [GALLERY]