The first image and details of a flagship, eco-friendly housing scheme at Liverpool’s Festival Gardens - which could see several hundred new homes created near to the Mersey waterfront - have been revealed. Liverpool City Council is seeking to create an innovative and sustainable multi-generational neighbourhood on one of England’s biggest ... Read More...
Festival Gardens
Plans for the regeneration of Liverpool’s Festival Gardens site have taken a major step forward with the selection of a development partner. Liverpool City Council has chosen a joint venture company, led by Urban Splash and igloo Regeneration, following a procurement process launched last autumn. The two award-winning companies have come together ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council is set to seek a development partner to help transform a prime waterfront spot into Liverpool's newest residential community. A report to cabinet on Tuesday (10 September) is recommending the local authority embarks on a "competitive procurement exercise" to appoint a "high calibre development partner" to lead on ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council has appointed a multi-disciplinary team of placemaking experts to help create a new neighbourhood next to the city’s Festival Gardens. The team of architects and designers will work with the council to prepare a development brief to maximise the potential of the 28-acre site – setting out the ... Read More...
One of Liverpool’s forgotten green lungs – regenerated from the recycled soil of a former landfill site – is set to re-open today (7 August). A unique 24-acre recreational area, called Southern Grasslands, has been created as a result of a massive remediation programme to lay the foundations for a potential ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council has appointed Nuala Gallagher as its new corporate director of city development. Nuala, current director of planning, environment & placemaking at Limerick City and County Council, will take up the reins from interim director Mark Bourgeois, at the end of March. The appointment is part of a reorganisation of ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council is set to approve a procurement exercise to attract a developer for one of the major development sites in the north of England. A report to the council’s cabinet next Friday (23 September) is recommending a procurement process be undertaken to appoint a development partner for a 22-acre ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council has set out a timetable to transform a former landfill site which once formed part of the International Garden Festival celebrations in 1984 into a ‘green community’. A report to the city council’s cabinet this Friday (6 December) outlines a programme of activity which could lead to the ... Read More...
Plans to build up to 1,500 family homes at Festival Gardens have received a major boost from the government. A cash injection of almost £10 million pounds from Homes England will allow essential remediation work to take place at the waterfront site - paving the way for residential development to begin. Activity ... Read More...
Liverpool’s Festival Gardens will close on Monday (28 January) as investigations get underway to inform the area’s multi-million pound regeneration. Contractor Willmot Dixon will drill several bore holes during the temporary closure to determine what lies beneath the 25-acre formal Chinese and Japanese gardens. According to Liverpool City Council the findings will contribute to ... Read More...