Knowsley to invest £2m in cycling routes

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is to invest nearly £173m in 18 transport and infrastructure schemes, including the creation of new train stations in the Baltic Triangle and at Headbolt Lane, along with major interventions in the region's cycling network.

Closures at stations including Green Lane, Chester, and West Kirby are expected as Merseyrail continues preparing its network for new trains.

Knowsley Council is poised to accept a £12m grant from Liverpool City Region Combined Authority's strategic investment fund, to deliver access routes into the Halsnead Garden Village site. 

Plans for a Sainsbury’s supermarket at Meols Cop retail park in Southport were last night deferred until 31 July by Sefton’s planning committee, following late representations.

Sefton Council and contractor John Sisk & Son have kicked off a project to add two “missing” slip roads at Junction 1 of the M58 nearly Maghull.

The transport organisation has named the successful bidders for its five-year £10m framework, for construction works across its stations estate.

There will now be hourly rail services linking North Wales and Cheshire to Liverpool, due to the £14m reopening of the Halton Curve track.

Companies including Pell Frischmann, IBI, Waterman, Aecom, and Arup have secured a place on a framework covering disciplines such as engineering consultancy, public affairs, quantity surveying, and architecture.

A planning application for the A5036 Port of Liverpool access road is likely to come forward early next year after Sefton Council decided not to appeal a High Court decision on the £335m project.