Liverpool is on-track to deliver the ambitious new homes target set by the Mayor.

New figures, in the city's annual Residential Development Update, show that 477 new homes were built in Liverpool in 2013, with work on a further 883 properties, at 32 sites, getting underway during the year.

The Mayor set the target, in 2012, of delivering 5,000 new homes for the city by 2016, and the housing activity which has taken place over the last two years means that more than 3,560 new houses have either been completed, or are in the process of being built.

With planning applications from Registered Housing Providers and private developers either submitted or approved for a further for 4,116 properties, the city is well on course to exceed the Mayoral target.

Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, said: "These figures are really encouraging. I have pledged to deliver 5,000 new homes in this city because I know how important a thriving, prosperous housing market is for our future. To see us making such great strides forward gives me real optimism.

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"These new homes are revitalising our neighbourhoods, providing the type of affordable housing that people want, and generating more council tax which can be ploughed back into services. Just as importantly, they are creating new jobs and apprenticeships and building confidence that Liverpool is a good, desirable place to live."

The city council is working with a range of partners – including Registered Housing Providers and private developers – to deliver new homes in every part of Liverpool, as part of the city’s £130m Housing Delivery Plan. Areas benefiting from new housing include:

• Anfield – where the Parks scheme, delivered by Keepmoat, has provided 346 new energy-efficient homes, with 52 more under construction

• Edge Hill – where the £18.5 million Williamson Place scheme has seen Bellway deliver 168 new two, three and four-bedroom properties.

• Norris Green – where a scheme on the former site of the Boot Estate – delivered by Regeneration Liverpool, the city’s regeneration partnership – is delivering 107 two, three and four bedroom homes, for private sale, and an additional 60 homes for affordable rent.

• Knotty Ash – where Riverside have commenced a £6.3m development of 75 one and two-bedroom homes to tackle the shortage of smaller properties in the wake of the so-called 'bedroom tax'.

• Speke and Garston – where South Liverpool Homes (SLH) is investing £20m in the delivery of more than 170 two, three and four bedroom homes for affordable rent, shared ownership and for sale.

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