Lovell cleared to start Liverpool housing programme in the spring

Lovell will start work in spring 2019 on the first of what is expected to be thousands of new council homes in Liverpool.Liverpool City Council’s new housing company, Foundations, and partnership homes developer Lovell have secured planning permission to build 105 two-, three- and four-bedroom family homes in the city’s Yew Tree area.The homes are the first to be built through Foundations’ £1bn programme to deliver 10,000 new and refurbished homes over the next 10 years, helping meet the city’s target of creating 30,000 new homes by 2030. The new Yew Tree homes will be built on land previously occupied by a council housing estate. All will have front and back gardens and off-street parking and will be built to modern standards of insulation and energy-efficiency. Properties have been designed to be easily adapted as residents’ needs alter over their lifetimes.