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Liverpool
Waters plan has been approved by City Council
A £5.5 billion scheme
to regenerate 60 hectares of dock land in Liverpool has been
approved by the city council’s planning committee. A £5.5
billion scheme to regenerate 60 hectares of dock land in
Liverpool has been approved by the city council’s planning
committee. Now Liverpool City Council’s planning committee has
granted outline planning permission for Peel Holdings Liverpool
Waters scheme, the final permission will now be subject to the
signing of a legal agreement and has to be referred to the
Government, who will then decide if a public inquiry will be
held or not. If approved the redevelopment will create more than
9,000 homes, 3 million square feet of commercial development, a
cruise liner terminal, hotels, shops, restaurants and leisure
facilities, not forgetting thousands of new jobs!
Council Leader Joe Anderson
said:- "This decision to grant planning permission for
Liverpool Waters is one of the most significant and far-reaching
made in Liverpool’s recent history. It is a vote of confidence
in a new beginning of a great city. The scale of what is being
proposed is breath-taking as it represents a five and half
billon pound investment to create thousands of jobs, provide new
housing and attract new businesses and more visitors to the
city. It is a scheme which is unprecedented in its ambition,
scope and potential to regenerate a city. Liverpool has to grow
and redevelop if we are to thrive and succeed in the future. We
do not live in the past, we are not a museum. I care
passionately about the future of Liverpool and the opportunities
and life chances we give our children. This decision is for
future generations. The new investment, businesses and
employment opportunities Liverpool waters will bring is the
future for our city. In arriving at their decision the city
council’s planning committee considered a very comprehensive
report which thoroughly examined all the issues concerned and
listened to a number of different presentations from both
supporters and objectors and visited the site themselves.
Everybody; including the committee; is well aware of the
concerns about heritage, but we can have the strikingly modern,
while retaining our world heritage status. I have never regarded
this as being 'either, or'. With the safeguards the planning
committee has insisted on, we can have Liverpool Waters living
comfortably alongside the World Heritage Site. If this
application had been rejected then we would have been left with
huge stretches of derelict dockland cheek-by-jowel with our
World Heritage site. Instead we now have the prospect of one of
the most ambitious schemes ever seen in this country taking
shape; it is one that will transform Liverpool’s fortunes for
future generations."
For more information about
Liverpool Waters is available at:-
liverpoolwaters.co.uk.
Should this major project get the green light from all parties,
it thought that it will give the whole of Merseyside a major
boost to it's economy, that has been severely struggling in
places for some years now.
So what do you our readers
think about Liverpool's plans?Email our newsroom via:-
news24@southportreporter.com
with your views and thoughts about the re-development and let us
know what you really think!
Wanted - Can
you help Police?
POLICE in Devon and
Cornwall are seeking a 24 year old man who is wanted in
connection with a serious assault that took place in Plymouth on
1 April 2011. Devon and Cornwall police are proactively
following a number of lines of enquiry to ascertain his current
location. Police intend to arrest this man once he has been
located. The man sought by police is known as Mark Thomas Masher
who comes from Liverpool. He is white, 1.63 metres tall, heavy
build, with brown short hair, blue eyes and speaks with a
Liverpool accent. He sometimes uses the name Thomas Keogh. He
has links to Liverpool L8 and L19 post codes, Torquay, Plymouth
and Newquay areas. Police advise not to approach this man, but
immediately call the Police. The Police are also appealing for
anyone who has Information to come forward and assist by calling
police on:- 101 and quoting Devon and Cornwall Police crime
reference EL/11/1472, alternatively call Crimestoppers,
anonymously, on:- 0800 555111 or report online at:-
crimestoppers-uk.org.
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