A new community café could be opening in Granby Four Streets under proposals submitted to Liverpool City Council. Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust (CLT) has plans to erect a new three-storey building on the corner of Granby Street and Cairns Street. As well as a café at ground level, the new ... Read More...
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Plans to partially demolish a row of Toxteth terraced houses to make way for new apartments have been revealed. Ducie Street, off Granby Street, could be transformed if proposals from West Tree Estates are given the go ahead. Part of the Granby Four Streets area alongside Beaconsfield Street, Cairns Street and Jermyn ... Read More...
Liverpool City Region residents are being invited to share their own photo-based narratives online as part of a community arts project. As part of Open Eye Gallery’s Cultural Shifts programme, a new ‘PhotoStories’ website will be launched in February mixing the works of the public with professional photographers as they explore ... Read More...
More houses in the Turner Prize-winning Granby Four Streets area of Toxteth will go up for sale in the new year, according to the residents group behind the project. Three homes have just been sold, with locals given first refusal, and the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust has confirmed that two ... Read More...
Liverpool's Granby Four Streets community is gearing up to end 2016 with a day of celebratory Christmas entertainment and market stalls. Popular street markets have been held during the year but the Granby Four Streets CLT is now hoping to "start the festive season with a bang" as it hosts a special event. The ... Read More...
A Toxteth regeneration scheme by Assemble has won the Turner Prize, the leading award in British contemporary art. The London-based architecture and design collective, made up of 14 staff, claimed the £25,000 prize for overhauling 10 houses in Granby Four Streets, beating other nominees Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers, ... Read More...
PlusPlans to complete the regeneration of Liverpool’s Granby Four Streets will be put forward to the council’s cabinet this week. Work on 77 of the Victorian terraced properties is already underway thanks to a number of schemes from the city council and housing associations – spearheaded by members of the local ... Read More...
It’s been a turbulent few decades for Liverpool 8’s ‘Granby Four Streets’ – a cluster of Victorian terraces made up of Beaconsfield Street, Cairns Street, Jermyn Street and Ducie Street. The once thriving district set amongst the Granby Triangle found itself at the receiving end of demolition threats, as decline ... Read More...
Cairns Street in Toxteth has been shortlisted for the UK and Ireland ‘Street of the Year’ by the Academy of Urbanism. Cairns Street is part of Granby Four Streets - 150 formerly empty Victorian homes that were saved from demolition by the local community and are the subject of a regeneration ... Read More...
A collective of artists behind a vision for Granby Four Streets in the Toxteth area of Liverpool has been nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize 2015. London-based Assemble, which has been working with residents of the council houses to create a new vision for the area, has been shortlisted for the ... Read More...