Work on former Holly Lodge site to start

Work to provide 60 new homes on West Derby’s former Holly Lodge Girls’ College site is due to get underway before Easter. Having secured planning permission, developer Redrow Homes will build 51 brand new houses and refurbish nine properties within Grade II-listed buildings on the site off Mill Lane. With sympathetic conversions ... Read More...

More housing developments needed in north of city , says planning chief

Further investment is needed in housing for the north of Liverpool, according to the head of planning at Liverpool City Council. Speaking yesterday (1 December) at ArchitEx 2015, David Hughes explained how the council’s latest partnership with Redrow and Liverpool Mutual Homes is aimed at delivering housing to the ‘hollowed-out’ areas, ... Read More...

Liverpool Mutual Homes’ scheme wins award

Liverpool Mutual Homes’ (LMH) back-to-work scheme has won a National Housing Federation (NHF) award. The Volunteers in Placement (VIP) programme won the NHF’s Community Impact Awards in the Investing in People category for helping 30 people find work within a six-month period. Each VIP participant was supported by LMH and its partners, ... Read More...

Liverpool architects Brock Carmichael discuss factory office conversion; it will bring ‘considerable new investment’

Liverpool Council’s decision to renovate the Ogden’s Imperial Tobacco factory office has relieved Historic England and Brock Carmichael to finally start the conversion work. The original Queen Anne-style 19th century office buildings are Grade II-listed and will therefore remain and be converted into 19 apartments with internal and external works but ... Read More...

Countryside Properties has ‘great opportunity’ with Liverpool Mutual Homes as tobacco factory plans are finally approved

Countryside Properties has welcomed Liverpool Council’s decision on the Imperial Tobacco site and says it looking forward to its new partnership with Liverpool Mutual Homes. The factory site, on Boundary Lane Everton, ceased trading in 2007 and there have been numerous attempts to regenerate it after the 19th century office buildings ... Read More...