Liverpool explores meanwhile use for vacant Anfield plot
A site next to Liverpool FC’s stadium known as Anfield Square is to be activated in the short term while longer term plans for a mixed-use scheme that “maximises both employment and community benefits” are worked up.
Liverpool City Council will next week provide an update to its cabinet on plans to redevelop Anfield Square, a 2.5-acre site off Walton Breck Road.
Various options are being considered that would see the site activated in the short term “from a partnership with Liverpool FC to independent LCC-led initiatives,” according to a cabinet report.
The authority’s Anfield Spatial Regeneration Framework refers to the site as “a significant development opportunity capable of accommodating a range of uses to improve the vibrancy and economic potential of the area”.
In early 2023, a team of consultants was assembled to prepare a development brief for the site.
The long-term plan for the site, according to a cabinet report, is to deliver a project that “integrates leisure and entertainment uses, including food and beverage offerings relevant for both community and stadium needs”.
The city council also recognises the site’s challenges due to its “location, size, and ground constraints”.
The report adds the city council “is committed to development of Anfield Square” and that more detail on the long-term future of the site are expected early next year.
The update on Anfield Square formed part of a larger report that outlined recent progress and thinking around the wider Anfield area.
Pipeline projects include a £5m scheme to upgrade streets, including Walton Breck Road, and the redevelopment of Hodder Street and the former Four Oaks school site. The council is preparing to engage with the market around plans to bring forward homes on the plot.
In addition, proposals for a retail scheme on a site opposite Anfield Square – described as “a pivotal component of the Anfield Regeneration Programme” – are also in the works.
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By Anonymous
All that time and money on a development brief, which then suggests a meanwhile use on a site adjacent to a 60,000 seater stadium, that has been hoarded for more than 10 years.
Surely the Council property team should be able to spot opportunities like this themselves?! They have missed out on a huge income stream opportunity for more than 10 years!!!! It could even have been parking…..
By Mr Walton Breck Rd
Hotels , retail, leisure all possible but would like to see some modern, 3 storey,terraced housing built in a classic style. We might assume that Liverpool will want to raise the capacity by extending the Dalglish Stand and if so some housing will be sacrificed there, anyway plenty of land available for more housing but of quality design.
By Anonymous
Make liverpool build a gym like the one they demolished in Stanley Park.
By Anonymous
Build a local initiative centre for area
By Neil Thompson
They need to bulldoze the whole areas and restart around it .
By Anonymous
I mean a huge stadium smack bound right in the middle of that area isn’t a good representation of Liverpool it’s absolutely horrible and I support Liverpool FC
By Anonymous
WITHOUT PREJUDICE Careful consideration needs to be afforded through any development brief for the meanwhile sitecfor residents of Pulford street
Who directly face that site ie noise and light splays and scale style of buildings and visual amenity parking noise. I did a lot of free work with residents there as a Planner and consultations with community on SRF proposals. What happened with the hotel.proposal and partners likw YHG another failed project . Hmmm.Bill McGarry MBA MRTPI
By Bill mcgarry
It will take decade later like everything in Liverpool decade and eventually fall through because the developers have retired at that point so everything is pointless
By Anonymous
Absolute madness that it has been wasteland for so long. LCC should be embarrassed.
By Anonymous
Frightening lack of imagination. Were they paid for not coming up with an idea? This shows the perils of using a big name consultancy team from outside the city in a challenging area.
By William Hesketh
In the midst of a housing emergency does anyone know how many houses were sacrificed to enlarge Anfield Stadium?
I am sure there were plenty of brownfield sites they could have built a new ground on.
By Ram Tailor
I lived most of my earlier life in the Anfield area. Named after a lady called Ann Field. It’s disgusting what has happened to Anfield ruined by a football club. Yes we had a gym in the park that Liverpool FC where going to rebuild. I was at a meeting when Liverpool FC said they would build a new gym. A load of lies, people are still waiting it will never happen. Anfield area is is so unsafe now. I still have friends living in the Anfield are, they say after dark nobody goes out they don’t feel safe. Again this text won’t be listened to
By Anonymous
The land should have a multi storey car park on for future events outside of football
By Mark burbidge
It was supposed to be a Hotel.
What happened?
Yet more food places,really?
By Anonymous
Liverpool continues to be hollowed out. And they say that Thatcher’s plan to reduce the size of the city never came to pass. The club doesn’t need this land
The city desperately needs housing.
By Andrew Wood
More council houses please
By Anonymous