Public sector and business leaders in Liverpool have set up a task force to secure funding for schools projects stalled by the axing of the £350m Building Schools for the Future programme.
Liverpool Vision chief executive Max Steinberg (pictured) is to lead the task force to find ways of raising the …

Most of the 56 bids to form local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) are not good enough, according to business secretary Vince Cable.
Speaking at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool this week, Cable said three quarters of the bodies that are proposed to replace regional development agencies (RDAs) would need “a lot …

Former Liverpool Vision chief executive Jim Gill has been hired to advise Liverpool City Council on regeneration for the next three months.
Gill, who retired from the urban regeneration company earlier this year, will advise Liverpool council’s leader Joe Anderson two days a week on major regeneration projects and its proposals …

Former Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy is set to become a board member of a Liverpool City Region local enterprise partnership (LEP), which was proposed by the city council today.
The LEP will take on planning and regeneration powers currently held by the North West Development Agency, and it will …

Knowsley Council and Liverpool City Council are set to share a head of regeneration after Liverpool’s regeneration chief John Kelly stepped down.
Nick Kavanagh, the current executive director of regeneration, economy and skills at Knowsley, will take on Kelly’s responsibilities as part of a cost-saving measure. Kelly took voluntary redundancy earlier …

Judges at Manchester’s High Court have rejected an appeal from Tesco to develop on an area earmarked for a £150m regeneration scheme.
The High Court ruled that Project Jennifer, which is in the Great Homer Street area of Everton, was being stalled by Tesco’s rival bid to build a 27,000 sq …

Liverpool housing association, Plus Dane Group has named Claire Griffiths as managing director of regeneration and commercial development.
The association, which has a development pipeline of 1,500  homes, will give Griffiths responsibility for developing more than 300 new homes each year for sale and rent.
She will also manage the group’s commercial …

Local authorities in the Liverpool region have appointed GVA Grimley to undertake a review of the supply of development land in the region.
Councils in Liverpool (town hall pictured), Halton, Knowsley, Cheshire West and Chester, St Helens, Sefton, West Lancashire and Wirral – supported by quango 4NW and the Government Office …

The stadiums of football clubs Liverpool and Everton need to be replaced ahead of a bid for the 2018 World Cup, Liverpool council’s regeneration director said this afternoon.
Speaking in Liverpool at the spring conference of the Association of Chief Estates Surveyors, Liverpool City Council executive director of regeneration John Kelly …

Birmingham is aiming to achieve in 2013 what Liverpool did in 2008 — albeit on a smaller scale.
Next month Birmingham has to make its final round of presentations in its bid to become the UK’s City of Culture in three years’ time. It is not as prestigious as Liverpool’s accolade, …