Smithdown Road: Spotlight on the transforming Liverpool street For decades a student hub, Smithdown Road and its surrounding suburbs have long been a bustling mix of homes, businesses and cultures. Now a growing assortment of popular bars and restaurants, coupled with an evolving demographic, means the area could be experiencing its biggest ... Read More...
Homes for a Pound
The future of Liverpool’s Edge Hill area is said to be “really positive” as the latest phase of new housing has been completed.Bellway has been building 150 properties at Williamson Place in Edge Hill as part of a varied selection of new homes, in addition to 200 which have previously reached ... Read More...
A Picton neighbourhood could be enhanced by new shops, businesses and community cafés as a ‘Shops for a Pound’ scheme is launched.Having achieved success with its ‘Homes for a Pound’ initiative, Liverpool City Council is now looking to revive vacant retail units on Smithdown Road and Earle Road.Through the project ... Read More...
More than 2,500 people have applied to buy a home through Liverpool City Council’s Homes for a Pound Plus scheme, latest figures have revealed.The original scheme was expanded following the success of a pilot project involving properties around Granby Four Streets and Arnside Road. The latest initiative will transform empty ... Read More...
Liverpool homes will be sold for just £1 in the second phase of the council’s Homes for a Pound Plus scheme.Houses in Picton, off Smithdown Road, will be sold for £1 to owners who are willing to spend up to £30,000 refurbishing the properties and bringing them back to use.Liverpool ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council will open applications to sell more homes for £1 at the end of June, after a successful pilot of the scheme.Over 150 properties including two and three-bedroom houses in Garrick Street, Bird Street, Richardson Street and Webster Road – all near Smithdown Road – will be sold ... Read More...
A total of 150 Liverpool homes will go on sale for just £1, after the Homes for a Pound scheme was extended.Houses in the Smithdown Road area in Picton will be the next to be sold for £1 under the scheme, according to a report going to the council’s cabinet on ... Read More...
The first successful applicant who paid just £1 for his new home has completed refurbishment of the property.Home owner Jayalal Madde, 49, has completed the refurbishment of the home in Granby Four Streets after becoming the first applicant to get the keys to the cut-price homes last year under the ... Read More...
