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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Tom Duffy

Council set to sell controversial Tarmacademy site that cost the city millions

Liverpool City Council is set to sell land in Kirkdale that it bought for millions of pound to make way for a training academy that was not built.

The council spent around £4m on buying the land off Derby Road to make way for a Tarmacademy, which would have trained hundreds of unemployed young people across north Liverpool. But the proposed training academy was not built.

The ECHO has now seen a council document which reveals that the local authority is proposing to sell the land.

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