Survey work is to begin on a major North Liverpool site earmarked for more than 1,000 homes.
In March 2021, Liverpool Council agreed on plans to move a development plan forward for Stonebridge Cross in Croxteth, with a view to building 1,200 homes on the site. An update from Mark Bourgeois, interim Strategic Director - City Development, has detailed how the local authority is now procuring consultants to progress the site towards an outline planning application.
Liverpool Council has held the site since acquiring it from Homes England in 2014 and has been facilitating the creation of over 300,000 square feet of business and commercial space there. The 55-acre site is located on the East Lancashire Road (A580), one of the main thoroughfares into Liverpool.
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Mr Bourgeois’ report, which will be discussed at the authority’s strategic development and housing committee next week, said a workshop was held with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Homes England in June to discuss a housing offer, employment uses and procurement of consultants. Briefing sessions have been undertaken with ward members and the Cabinet member for Regeneration, the most recent of which was last week.
Further procurement of a consultant to carry out habitat surveys is complete and survey work will begin in October. This will come ahead of soft market testing and procurement of planning consultants to develop an outline planning application for the site that could “ transform the housing offer at scale in this part of Liverpool” according to last year’s cabinet documents.
Stonebridge Cross was also one of two sites considered by Everton Football Club for its new stadium before settling on Bramley Moore Dock. It had been hoped back in 2020 that work on the site to deliver new homes could have started within 12 to 18 months.
No timescale for an outline planning application has been set at this stage, according to Mr Bourgeois’ report. The development of the site is part of a wider regeneration of the Croxteth area in the last eight years, including the £18 million St John Bosco Arts College, the first phase of Stonebridge Business Park West and creation of 20 acre landscaped park, Alt Meadows.
The report will be discussed at Liverpool Town Hall on Tuesday October 4.
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