Nearly 3,000 new homes to be built on Liverpool brownfield sites

A £36m plan to tackle the housing crisis will see nearly 3,000 new homes built on 14 brownfield sites in the Liverpool City Region.

The fund will support eight private sector and six local authority home-building schemes on former industrial and previously developed sites.

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority will be asked to approve the use of the remaining funding from its £45m Brownfield Land Fund at its meeting on Friday.

The Combined Authority has already invested £11m from the fund in seven projects across the Liverpool City Region, delivering 886 homes.

Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said: ‘For too many people across our region, the chance to own a home of their own remains out of reach. To tackle the housing crisis and help more people realise their home ownership ambitions, we need to take serious action to get more homes built across our region.

‘When I was elected, I promised to prioritise brownfield sites for house building and have been working hard to make that a reality. Last year we spent £11m to help deliver almost 900 homes on brownfield sites. We are now looking at another £36m that should take the total to almost 4,000 new homes for people across our region.’

In total, 700 brownfield sites have been identified across the six local authorities of the Liverpool City Region. The updated brownfield register identifies 1,813 acres of brownfield sites which could provide space for more than 42,000 homes, if remediated.

Cllr Graham Morgan, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Portfolio Holder for Housing and Spatial Framework, added: ‘We have ambitious plans to ensure that we tackle the housing shortage and deliver a great choice of high-quality homes, right across the city region.

‘Building on brownfield sites will be vital to that process – after all there are around 800 of them with enough space to build 42,000 homes.  The developments put forward in this proposal to the Combined Authority are a really good mix of schemes offering a wide range of different housing types.  We need to ensure that, across our city region, we are building homes to suit everybody.’

In related news, a new planning application has been submitted by Manchester City Council to begin the process of making the Red Bank neighbourhood ready for development.

Photo supplied by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority