Funding has been made available to progress housebuilding on the site of Liverpool FC ’s former training ground and the previous home of an interiors store synonymous with the city.
Around 4,500 homes are to be built across the Liverpool City Region through a £60m Brownfield Land Fund from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Hundreds could now be built on Melwood, the former Taskers store on Wavertree Road and a former pub in St Helens.
Melwood was the home of the Reds for seven decades, dating back to before the Bill Shankly era, before the club relocated to its new £50m training centre in Kirkby in 2020. The site was then officially handed over to housing group, Torus, who submitted a planning application last August for a mixture of 170 homes, bungalows and care units.
