Liverpool council set to back plans for £97m investment in new homes

Plans for a £97m investment in more than 600 new and refurbished homes on sites across Liverpool were set to be approved by the city’s cabinet on 27 November.Council bosses are being asked to agree to release land for 17 schemes providing 360 affordable rent properties, a further 50 for private rent and 241 executive homes.And at a meeting of the city council’s ruling cabinet today senior councillors will be told the developments are to be delivered by Redrow Homes, social housing provider Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) and property contractor Wilmott Dixon.The council said a total of 25 hectares of brownfield land which has previously been used for development is being assembled for the programme – including former Holly Lodge and Palmerston schools – which will see 580 new homes built and 71 houses refurbished.Of the 17 schemes, two are already on site, eight are in planning, one is subject to master planning and six are at the feasibility stage.Eldon Grove in Kirkdale, which is on the ECHO’s Stop the Rot campaign list, is one of the schemes included in the £97m investment.It is part of a five year scheme which will see a total of 1,500 new homes constructed and a further 1,000 brought back into use.