We have scores of threads and each day various snippits of news are posted. I thought a "weekly summary" of the main news items would be useful:....................

So here goes with week 1 - W / E Sunday 8-5-05)

1) Revised scheme for Central Station site to be submitted by Ballymore.
Could include a second tower after dispute with Networkrail Rail has been
resolved.

2) Churchill House, Tithebarn St. major re-cladd and extra 2 floors to be
added to existing 8 floors + 8 storey new build proposed.

3) Planning approval sought for Lime St Station Gateway Tower, a 27
storey tower to replace Concourse house.

4) Walton Group announce plans and imminent start (we shall see) on their
Exchange Flags site. We could have the cities first £2M apartment???
in this scheme.

5) Merseypartnership announce "River of Light "project, where they
propose to install BEACONS along the river and flash Morse code
messages between beacons

6) The restoration of one the finest buildings in the city, The Albany in Old
Hall St. has been completed.

7) We had yet another BLACK friday with 650 job loss`s at Marconi. I hope the site owners NWDA find some replacement hi-tec company`s to keep the existing talents in work.

8) Unlike some of the very sad and twisted reds on this forum ,please accept my congratulations on reaching the final of the champions League.
That should please Mr. Martin S. but the final item of the week will not
9) Mighty Blues finish above Liverpool and gain entry to the Europian Champions League

Great list for one week Woody. If I'm right, we might be also seeing work starting on Alexandra Tower at last.

By the way, you could have added Liverpool getting through to the Champions League final. :cheers:

By the way, you could have added Liverpool getting through to the Champions League final. :cheers:

Martin, this thread is for IMPORTANT items only :)

Sort it out Woody because I can't be bothered reading back to last Sunday. :)

Sorry for the delay in posting week 2, but only got back late last night from working 6 days in Birmingham,

1) New industrial park for Sandhills within the Atlantic Gateway SIA, could create over 350 jobs gets city backing. The project is being developed by Langtree and will cost £13M and will provide 114,000sq.ft. of office and industrial space.

2) European Commission approve £46M Objective One grant means that the long awaited Kings Dock project can now go ahead. Bovis will start in July on the ARENA , CONFERENCE CENTRE , MULTI-STOREY CAR PARK and PUBLIC PIAZZA. New chief Bob Pattey ( ex NEC Birmingham) is now looking for a "super star "act to mark the opening in 2008. ( Sir Paul or Cilla ? ) :)

3) Beatles Hotel," Hard Days Night" has the £10M backing to enable the conversion of the old Central Building to proceed, the 120 room hotel is due to open in December 2006.

4) Baltic Triangle makes big news this week, a development company wants to build a £600M self contained urban community which could envelope most of the run down area of the Baltic Triangle. The company, WINDSOR DEVELOPMENTS is already building 3 apartment blocks on the old Joseph Lamb site has this week submitted a planning application for a 25 storey tower aimed at families (not the buy to let market). The ultimate aim is to create a community of 5,000 people in up to 3,000 homes.

5) Malmaison Hotel announce a start date for their £24M 130 bed/ 41 apartment 11 storey development in Princes Dock. Contractors AMEC will start on the 4th. July.

6) Piling equipment arrives at the ALEXANDRA TOWER site in Princes Dock , start looks imminent.

7) New renderings of a revised tower for the Lime Street Station Gateway project are published. Tower has been reduced from 32 to 28 storey`s and looks like the "eliptical" shape has been retained and is topped off with a "blue halo" at roof level.

8) Final acts for this years SUMMER POPS 2005 to be held at Central Docks for the next 3 years are announced, Van Morrison and Jose Carreras complete a "star studded " line up which includes::: Diana Ross, Will Young, Gabrielle, McFly, Lemar, Paul Weller + many more.
Summer Pops runs from 27th. June to 24th. July.

9) Big Brother has arrived, the CITYSAFE scheme has taken 9 months to install 220 top-of-the-range CCTV cameras across the city centre and on all main routes into the city, the aim is to make the city one of the safest in Europe. The new system replaces 20 black and white cameras and has already logged over 5,000 incidents which lead to 300 arrests.

10) The BIG DIG ,part of the CCMS, is again making the front page of the ECHO, all the road works and building work is " killing the city" they moan.
Tough, its going to get even worse when the TRAM builders hit the streets.
Thats all folks , promise Paul D to try harder, :) u lazy bugger

1) Ah... Langtree, they are the ones involved with the Garden festival site, wonder how those plans are coming along.

Just found this website Langtree (http://www.langtreegroup.co.uk), it's a bit rubbish for development info :bash:

Nice one Woody.

Thats all folks , promise Paul D to try harder

You really must Woody because there was no mention of the start on the Cruise Liner Facility next month. :D

You really must Woody because there was no mention of the start on the Cruise Liner Facility next month. :D

I am good ,but not that good ,that I can post THIS WEEKS news in LAST WEEKS summary. Get a grip Paul D and try and stay awake :sleepy: :sleepy:

Great stuff Woody. Thanks :cheers:

Great job Woody.

I may read your update instead of reading two weeks of posts when I return from my summer hols.

I may be tempted to read all the posts though as there is some funny stuff amongst them.

You'll need two more weeks holiday to catch up. :cheers:

Great job Woody.

I may read your update instead of reading two weeks of posts when I return from my summer hols.

I may be tempted to read all the posts though as there is some funny stuff amongst them.

Cheers Gazzab, enjoy your holiday, :runaway: you will find plenty to read on your return :)

Cheers Gazzab, enjoy your holiday, :runaway: you will find plenty to read on your return :)

Cheers Woody.

I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it or dreading it. ;)

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I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it or dreading it. ;)

You could save yourself all that worry by checking in each day at an internet cafe. Also saves you from withdraw`al symptoms. :)

Cheers Woody.

I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it or dreading it. ;)
It makes the return more exciting, not knowing what has gone on whils't away.

It makes the return more exciting, not knowing what has gone on whils't away.

I came back the other week and there is talk of a Billion pound development at the Baltic Triangle,excellent. :)

You'll need two more weeks holiday to catch up. :cheers:

Oh yes please. :cheers:

You could save yourself all that worry by checking in each day at an internet cafe. Also saves you from withdraw`al symptoms. :)

I've been thinking about that now that internet cafe's have become cheaper to use. When they first started up, they used to charge £5 an hour. We'll be going to Jersey so I will expect it to be expensive but I'll try and get access maybe twice a week. :)

I'll be taking my bike so will be able to disappear for a few hours. Best to do it that way as our partners just don't understand that we need our daily fix. :cheers:

Relatively quite week after a news packed first two weeks:.............

1) John Prescott approves £19M of support to pay for the long awaited CRUISE LINER berth, the project involves a 250metre extension to the landing stage to allow some of the worlds big ships ( QE2-QM2 -CRUISE SHIPS ) to berth. (happy Paul :) )

2) Liverpool Vision announce a " strict design guidlines" for the continued regeneration of ROPEWALKS, LV are now responsible for phase 2 of the historic areas regeneration and are drawing up a "design blueprint" to advise would be developers of : building use,style and materials etc ,that should be used.

3) English Heritage backs new Lime St Station GATEWAY TOWER, that should help its progress through the planning process.

4) PARADISE PROJECT, moving at a rapid pace, demolition of the Moat House hotel is 50% complete and demolition has stared on the shops on the corner of Lord St and South John St. New crane going up in Chavasse Park ,near the Strand. See PSDA thread for latest splendid pics from Doug Roberts taken 21-5-05.

5) Urban Splash starts a £12M extension to the MATCHWORKS complex in Garston,the existing 1918 built building will be redeveloped to accomodate offices on the upper floors and light industrial units on the ground floor.
A new 3 storey glazed building called the MATCHBOX will be built facing Speke Rd. , the whole phase 2 will create 700 new jobs.
Both jobs are speculative but US are confident it will all be let.

6) Merseytravel have submitted plans for the main operations centre for LINE 1 of the MERSEYTRAM system. The centre will be built on the old GEC factory site along side the East Lancs Rd. in Gillmoss, the centre will house the control room,tram sheds and a 600 space car park for a park-ride scheme.

7) Liverpool Culture Company, signs up its fifth major sponsor for its CoC year,
North West Development Agency will be investing £2M over the next four years

8) Piling works begin at ALEXANDRA TOWER in Princes Dock

9) Brunswick Quay Tower back in the news with Henshaw having a go at Maro over the re-location of the existing business`s. The Daily Post editorial summed up the stupidity of Henshaw involvement when it said "he should be helping Maro not hindering".

10) Work begins on the £30M redevelopment of AINTREE RACECOURSE, over the next two years two new grandstands, parade ring, winners enclosures will be built. Building Design Partnership are the project architects.

11) Surprise surprise a letter in the Echo from " Margie" telling all scousers to stop moaning about all the roadworks and traffic jams. She says people should be looking foreward to the differences these changes will bring.
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12) Is this a lucky omen for LIVERPOOL FC, birdwatchers (twitchers) from the area and from all over the country are flocking :) to KNOWSLEY SAFARI PARK to catch a glimpse of a RED-NECKED GREBE, this very rare bird should heve returned to Russia after the winter, but has stayed in Knowsley ,maybe to watch the REDS win the Cup( OK Martin, just had to mention the enemy this week :) )[/I]

Well done woody, i find this much more manageable than having to read through loads of posts.

Bustcap,welcome back O spammer in chief. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

TWTWTW, final update posted tonight

TWTWTW, final update posted tonight

Cheers once again Woody. :cheers:

What a week, very quiet in MILAN :) but here in Liverpool the city is still recovering from the amazing events on Wednesday and Thursday. Congratulations to LFC on a stunning fight back to win the Champions Cup.
The supporters both in Istanbul and back in Liverpool certainly proved to be great ambassadors for the city. Also well done to the city council and Merseyside Police who organised the homecoming superbly.

Normal service will now resume:...........................

1) English Partnership pledge £19M towards the LIME STREET GATEWAY project. Prefered developer Illiad and construction company Carillion with Liverpool Vision and Merseytravel are all now working for a start onsite early in 2006.

2) Balfour Beatty win £20M contract to construct new CRUISE LINER facility. BB will "drop anchor" at the Pier Head in June with first ship due to berth next July 2006.

3) Brussels confirm an objective one grant of £46M (the largest ever)towards the Kings Dock development has been approved. This was the final hurdle to clear and Mike Storey has today confirmed that work will start in July

4) WINGS LIESURE PARK will "take off" in July, developers Peel Holdings plan for 2 hotels, the first being "Express by Holiday Inn (the other may be a premier travel inn?) together with multi-screen cinema, bars, restaurants and a fitness club. The location is adjacent to John Lennon Airport.

5) Further detailed designs have been released by Cesar Pelli Associates on what is planned for the new CHAVASSE PARK ,which is part of the Paradise Project. A grand staircase with "old dock" visitors centre underneath.


6) CoC news this week is made by the BEATLES STORY, they become the first tourist attraction to offer "audio tours" in Japanese, French and Spanish.
Further translation will be made next year. Who will be next?

7) Merseywaterfront Organisation have received a consultants report on improving public access and enhancments to the waterfront on both sides of the river. The "Pride in our Promenades" scheme subject to costings would see the Seacombe to New Brighton and the Otterspool promenades both revamped starting in the summer.

7) To end a good week for the city, peace may have broken out in the 8Henshaw / Story war. Henshaw is now willing to accept mediation with a view to him "retiring with honour". Leaving the elected leader to carry on leading. I sure hope that these two do not sour what has been a brilliant week for the city and its inhabitants.

Thanks Woody, it really was a big for Liverpool.

Shortened version this week as I am camped out in Earls Court for a few weeks, after the excitment of the past weeks this week was almost a case of " after the lord mayors parade". May be not quantity but quality:........

1) Langtree/ McLean sign agreement with the city to return the orential gardens at the old GARDEN FESTIVAL site to there former glory in time for 2008.

2) Danish architects 3XN show off their proposals for the new MUSEUM of LIVERPOOL to be built at the Mann Island area of the Pier Head.

3) Irish developer , Chieften go public on their plans for a 32 storey tower in Skelhorne Street, complete with a " New York style" public viewing deck at roof level. This tower has been with the planners for some time so a decision is due soon( we hope)

4) Building work starts on £120M printing plant at SPEKE, could provide up to a thousand jobs with the press`s due to roll in 2008.
Thats it guys, but if I have missed any " headline " news I am sure you will tell me :)

Thanks again Woody. Always look forward to these updates.

Bustcap,welcome back O spammer in chief. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:


Your a fine one to talk! :cheers: :cheers:

Thanks again Woody. Always look forward to these updates.

Yeah, they are very good and compliment nicely the development summary.

Cheers. :cheers:

Your a fine one to talk! :cheers: :cheers:


It was tongue in cheek O great one. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Shortened version this week as I am camped out in Earls Court for a few weeks, after the excitment of the past weeks this week was almost a case of " after the lord mayors parade". May be not quantity but quality:........

1) Langtree/ McLean sign agreement with the city to return the orential gardens at the old GARDEN FESTIVAL site to there former glory in time for 2008.

2) Danish architects 3XN show off their proposals for the new MUSEUM of LIVERPOOL to be built at the Mann Island area of the Pier Head.

3) Irish developer , Chieften go public on their plans for a 32 storey tower in Skelhorne Street, complete with a " New York style" public viewing deck at roof level. This tower has been with the planners for some time so a decision is due soon( we hope)

4) Building work starts on £120M printing plant at SPEKE, could provide up to a thousand jobs with the press`s due to roll in 2008.
Thats it guys, but if I have missed any " headline " news I am sure you will tell me :)


Really good to hear about the Oriental gardens news.
It's so sad to see the decline in that area. :cheers:

Wasn't there a plan to move one of the pagodas from the Gardens and plonk it in Nelson St a while back? :?

There was, but that was first mentioned several years ago but nothing has happened since. When the Council revamped Great George Square last year I had hoped that the oriental pagodas and pavillions would be relocated but that didnt happen. I think it would really add to the character of Chinatown if they were relocated..... seems a shame to keep them where they are where no-one can see them.

Seems like such a logical thing to do. Bit of a no-brainer really. Nelson Stret itself is alright, it just needs a bit of a tidy-up. I'd like to see more high grade chinese street furniture throughout the rest of the area, to give it an identity and act as a territorial boundary.

Seems like such a logical thing to do. Bit of a no-brainer really. Nelson Stret itself is alright, it just needs a bit of a tidy-up. I'd like to see more high grade chinese street furniture throughout the rest of the area, to give it an identity and act as a territorial boundary.


I think this is what was planned but unfortunately seems to have ground to a halt. :cheers:

Better late than never, I am trying to catch up with all the news from the past 3 weeks, so here goes:...............

1) Peel Holdings buy the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company for £771M.
Apart from the actual port operations, Peel will be eying the vast empty
spaces available for regeneration in Central Docks, Bidston Docks and the
remaining plots in Princes Dock. City officials are said to be delighted with
the news as Peels reputation for regeneration is well known. The city
expect "more ambitions plans" for Princes Dock and Central Docks than
those planned by MDBC.

2) Public exhibition opens of the proposed MUSEUM of LIVERPOOL at the
World Museum Liverpool in William Brown Street. The X shaped building
will occupy 30% of the Mann Island site, National Museums Liverpool are
now striving to obtain the £65M required to build and fit out.

3) The Reddington group led by Wirral multi-millinaire Gerry White are to
"bankroll" a bid by QUIGGENS to move into the former George Henry Lee
building in Church St. Reddington will bid £15/£20M for the site.

4) Ropewalks gateway building the SCANDINAVIA HOTEL has been the
subject this week of a public enquiry into its future. Owner Jimmy Wong
is fighting a CPO which would enable Downing Developments to
fully develop the whole site.

5) After 18 months away being redesigned we welcome back the
MERSEY WAVE. Installed in November 2004 it was removed after
a few weeks due to excessive movement in windy conditions.

6) A stunning lighting eefect to the 1856 built EVERTON WATER
TOWER was switched on this week, now the 149 year old
sandstone tower will be bathed in a blue light forming a halo
around the roof.

7) Everton in the news again with plans announced for a £18M
GREEN VILLAGE development of a 150 flats and houses for locals
to buy. Timber frame with high insulation values and low water
use applianances are some of the features aimed at low running
costs.

8) The 25th MERSEY RIVER FESTIVAL attacted over 450,000 visitors to the
waterfront to view some 150 vessels from Tall ships to narrow boats.
The highlight of the week end was the "parade of sail" which saw
5 tall ships on the river including the sail training KHERSONES from
the Ukraine.

9) BALTIC TRIANGLE blue print was published this week giving some idea
of the extent that development company WINDSOR plan for this once
forgotten corner of the city. With several apartment blocks already under construction and the BALTIC TOWER in the planning stage , this area will provide the perfect link between Kings Dock and the Paradise project.

10) Congratulation once again to Liverpool FC who have won the fight to defend the Champions Cup, even though they finished below the "mighty"
BLUES :)

11) Last but not least, its congratulations to one of this forums "esteemed
scribes", MARTIN S . The Development Summary produced by Martin for SSC has made onto the front page of Tony Sebo`s DOWNTOWN SITE .