Liverpool has been handed £3.4 million to create new green corridors across the city.

Locations in the city centre, the Baltic Triangle and Otterspool have been earmarked to benefit from the European funding which is aimed at tackling environmental issues.

The URBAN GreenUP project will also see more trees planted across the city, the introduction ‘green walls’ or ‘vertical gardens’, and the improvement of pedestrian and cycle routes.

Liverpool City Council teamed up with Mersey Forest, the University of Liverpool and organisations in Spain and Turkey to successfully bid for €10m of Horizon 2020 European funding – €4m (£3.4m) of which is specifically for Liverpool.

Councillor Steve Munby, the council’s cabinet member for neighbourhoods, says: “Receiving this funding will allow us to environmentally enhance some key city routes, benefitting the local community, businesses and the city as a whole, whilst providing an opportunity to adapt parts of the city so they are more resilient to future climate change impacts.

“It will be incredibly rewarding to see these green corridors flourish over the next three years and make Liverpool an even more pleasant place to live, work and visit.”

Dr Ian Mell from the University of Liverpool adds: “The URBAN GreenUP project is a fantastic opportunity to look at what makes an attractive and useful landscape and how people from all walks of life can reconnect with nature.

“Delivering the URBAN GreenUP project will place Liverpool at the forefront of European research for nature-based solutions.”

Work on the project is expected to get underway in the new year.

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