A call has been made for a public hearing over the increasing costs of developing a major south Liverpool site that could provide thousands of homes.
Cash-strapped Liverpool Council is expected to have to spent an additional £7m on the development of Festival Gardens where costs will balloon to £60m before work on building any homes has even got underway. Remediation work at the contaminated Festival Gardens site in the south of the city is already budgeted to cost a staggering £52 million before a housing developer even moves in to start building homes - but a report released last year showed costs have spiralled significantly beyond this.
A motion has now been put forward to Liverpool Council by Liberal Democrat members Richard Kemp, Andrew Makinson and Mirna Juarez, calling for interim chief executive Theresa Grant and council officers to publicly address residents’ concerns. The motion calls upon the council to note “with dismay the escalation in costs associated with the remediation of land at the former Garden Festival site on Riverside Drive, L17.”
