Liverpool City Region Development Update | Photos, slides, and summary

The chance to redevelop the Church Street multistorey car park into a residential scheme is up for grabs.

This week on Scheming, Liverpool City Council’s corporate director of city development chats with Place North West about looking to mainland Europe for placemaking inspiration, bringing a beach to London, and setting a new tone in Liverpool.

The council will invest £100,000 looking into future uses for the grade two-listed hall following the cancellation of an exclusivity agreement with Hopwood DePree earlier this month.

Recent years have seen unprecedented change to Salford’s economy and labour market, as the city emerges as one of the fastest growing places in the North. That isn’t a coincidence, writes Matthew Ainsworth of Salford City Council.

After pausing work on its borough-wide development plan in August, the council is tentatively pressing ahead with the long-awaited update in light of the government’s proposed changes to national planning policy.

The housing association will manage 100 of the next 192 homes planned at a former distribution centre in Oldham.

Property professionals from a wide range of sectors – including incoming Homes England interim chief executive Eamonn Boylan – gathered to re-examine how we can design our communities for the future in this roundtable discussion hosted by TP Bennett.

On-site works began at what has been billed as the largest purpose-built village for rough sleepers in the UK, a project headed by Peel Waters and Capital&Centric, with the aim to solve Manchester’s burgeoning homelessness crisis.

ForLiving will be granted a 250-year lease on Pendleton House to bring forward a 100% social rent scheme.

A 10-year strategy aimed at growing the borough’s tourism industry is to be mapped out amid a “period of change” for the sector in Sefton.

St Ambrose Barlow High School moved to Wardley in 2014, leaving the Shaftesbury Road site vacant.

Stoneygate Living claims a mechanism built into the planning agreement for a 467-apartment scheme on the site of the former Dryden Mill is preventing the project from being brought forward.

Main contractor Warden Construction has begun work transforming an underused car park by Gorton Market into a vibrant public square.

Main contractor Wynne Construction has handed over the 46,200 sq ft educational facility, whose public-facing Iâl Spa opened for business today.

Silicon Sands in Blackpool and a £6m innovation hub at Samlesbury Enterprise Zone are two of the five Lancashire projects earmarked for grants to support place-based economic regeneration and innovation-led growth as plans to combine the region under one authority are set in motion.

It is a happy Monday for public transport fans in the region, with the government revealing a £995m boost for bus services nationwide and TransPennine Express upping the frequency of trains between Liverpool and Manchester and Manchester and Leeds.

Cain International and the discount retailer have agreed a 10-year lease on a unit at Link Logistics Park.

Plans for a lab and manufacturing development on a five-acre site next to Glass Futures are being worked up.

With Eden Project Morecambe due to start on site soon, the city council has begun the hunt for a development partner to deliver a leisure-led redevelopment of the former Frontierland site nearby.