City leaders have approved a draft framework for the regeneration of Anfield which could pave the way for planning applications to deliver a proposed £260m scheme to breathe new life into north Liverpool, the Liverpool Express reports.

Now local residents and businesses are to be asked for their views on the document, called the Anfield Spatial Regeneration Framework (SRF), before it is finalised and formally adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document by Liverpool City Council.

The draft SRF sets out the planning framework for development in the Anfield area. It outlines a number of proposals to regenerate the area and potentially create some 700 long-term jobs. A four-week public consultation will take place before it is finalised and submitted to the cabinet again for official and final adoption in April.

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The draft SRF follows the unveiling of a range of ideas last June by a consortium led by Liverpool City Council with support from Your Housing Group, Liverpool Football Club and other partners including house-builder Keepmoat Ltd.

About 1,700 residents were surveyed with more than 80% of those who responded welcoming those ideas and saying they wanted them to be developed further. The draft SRF has taken residents' views into account.

The approval of the draft SRF could pave the way for planning applications for new housing, business and retail premises, a hotel, new public space, a proposed expansion of Liverpool FC's stadium and a range of new community facilities in the area, including in Stanley Park.

Subject to the views of residents and formal ratification of the draft SRF by the council, some of those planning applications could be submitted this year. It is intended that all the proposed developments are delivered by 2018.

(CD/JP)