Logistics developer Tritax Symmetry, part of Tritax Big Box Reit, is inviting input for its “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to redevelop the disused colliery in Knowsley into a 1m sq ft employment site and 65-acre country park.
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 developer will ask that its undetermined plans for a 1.8m sq ft industrial scheme in St Helens be considered alongside four North West logistics projects called in by the Government in May, while also resubmitting plans to the council in the hope of securing local approval.
The council has informed the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that it needs extra time to submit its long-awaited local plan, despite pledging to meet the June deadline earlier this summer.
Anwyl Partnerships, part of North Wales-based housebuilder Anwyl Group, has completed a £3.4m extra care scheme in Pensby, Wirral, and handed it over to operator Magenda Living.
Developer Engie Regeneration has secured consent for 266 homes across 16 acres at the former sports centre off Whitefield Drive, once tipped to house a 50,000-capacity stadium for Everton FC.
Sefton Council is seeking approval to remodel and extend Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre, a water sports and visitor centre next to Marine Lake in Waterloo.
The Travellers Rest on Crab Street, north of the town centre, closed in 2008 before being demolished. Plans to build 61 apartments at the site have now been submitted to the council.
Sci-Tech Daresbury has confirmed the appointment of the contractor to deliver the £15m three-building development, which will offer a total of 42,000 sq ft for science and technology-focused businesses.
Stewart Milne Homes has withdrawn its application for 225 homes in Halsnead after it was recommended for refusal by the council, leaving a hybrid application from Bloor Homes and Maro for 123 homes at the same site the sole item in front of the planning committee tomorrow.
