Plans to develop historic waterfront submitted

A public park and the infrastructure for about 2,350 new homes are part of the plans

Plans to regenerate parts of Liverpool's historic northern waterfront have been submitted by developers.

If approved, Central Docks, a 60-hectare industrial brownfield site spanning 1.4 miles (2.3km) of dockland north of the city centre, will be opened up for development by owners Peel Waters.

It is the latest area to be focused on under the 30-year £5bn Liverpool Waters scheme.

Peel said the latest plan would help shape the future of the area's dockland, creating new neighbourhoods to live, work and visit.

Everton's new 52,000-seater stadium is due to be ready for the 2025–26 season

Liverpool City Council is also set to receive a £55m investment boost from Homes England to accelerate the regeneration of Central Docks.

The plans include building a public park and vital infrastructure to accommodate approximately 2,350 new homes.

Liverpool Waters was first approved more than a decade ago, and has seen development in other areas of the city's docks.

Everton Football Club's new 52,000 seat riverside stadium, currently being built, is just north of the new development site and is due for completion later this year.

Professor Michael Parkinson CBE, of the Heseltine Institute at the University of Liverpool, said: "Liverpool has had a fantastic - if not yet complete - renaissance in the past 20 years."

He said north Liverpool had not yet shared enough in the city's progress and had been left behind.

"Liverpool Waters is a crucial part of the city which desperately needs continuing investment and regeneration delivered in a sustainable, high-quality way," he said.

"Capitalising on the building of Everton's new stadium, the changes in peoples' working lives after Covid, and the involvement of the local community in the new plan, means the masterplan is now more attuned to what the city and north Liverpool will really need in future."

Chris Capes, development director for Liverpool Waters, said the new vision was "exciting and inspiring" and had been "driven by the people of Liverpool" as well as "the demand for more green and sustainable places where people can enjoy a higher quality of life".