Liverpool City Council and Everton Football Club are to progress a transformational regeneration opportunity for North Liverpool, based at Walton Hall Park.

The Council and the Club will now work with public, private and voluntary sector partners, including Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) and Everton in the Community, to explore and understand community needs and then develop and ultimately deliver a new, vibrant and sustainable neighbourhood for North Liverpool.

The outline of the proposed scheme, spearheaded by a new stadium for Everton Football Club, seeks to embrace extensive, new community facilities and secure over 1,000 new, much-needed and sustainable jobs to the area through an exciting and multi-faceted development. Significant sections of the park will be retained to provide better quality and more varied leisure and recreational facilities. The opportunity to incorporate wide-ranging and impactful community benefits including innovative educational, health and lifestyle provision will also be explored.

-- Advertisement --

Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson said: "I am really pleased that we have identified this exciting opportunity for North Liverpool. We know that this is an area of the city that requires substantial investment and this project could bring this in a unique form.

"Everton's investment into this area would be the catalyst for a development which could make a real difference. We know from other regeneration schemes that opportunities like this can lead to significant economic and social benefits. This scheme would generate significant new job opportunities and also address important social needs such as health and education.

"We also see this as an opportunity to create an outdoor space with first-class leisure and recreational facilities that will really appeal to the local community. This is a starting point for something which could be a real game changer for this part of the city."

(CD/MH)