- Five housing developments in line for Brownfield Land Fund
support
- £2.8m to help create 113 new homes in total
- More than 4,500 new homes are already being built on derelict
sites thanks to £60m Brownfield Land Fund
A derelict former police station, church, school and pub are
amongst five sites in line to receive brownfield land funding
that would help create more than 100 homes.
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority will be asked to
approve the addition of the projects to its funding pipeline at
its 12 December meeting.
In total, the five projects have requested £2.8m from the
Brownfield Land Fund to create 113 new homes on previously
developed sites.
This extension builds on the City Region's successful delivery of
the £60m Brownfield Land Fund, that is creating more than 4,500
new homes on derelict sites across the Liverpool City Region.
Cllr Graham Morgan, Liverpool City Region Combined
Authority Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration,
said:
“We are working hard to tackle the housing crisis and ensure
that people right across our area have a great choice of
high-quality homes. Building on brownfield sites is key to making
that happen – there are around 700 of them with enough space to
build 42,000 homes.
“These developments, which could be added to our project
pipeline, are a great mix of schemes offering a wide range of
different housing types. We need to ensure that, across our
city region, we are building homes to suit everybody.”
The five developments proposed for inclusion in the project
pipeline are:
- Sentinel Way, Aintree (Sefton): Your Housing Group (YHG) is
seeking a £1,350,000 grant for a 54-unit brownfield scheme next
to the Merseyrail line.
- Prescot Police Station (Knowsley): Prima Group is requesting
a grant of £325,000 to deliver 13 shared ownership units
consisting of seven flats in the former police station alongside
the construction of two bungalows and four houses on the site of
the former car park.
- Mather Avenue (Liverpool): an 11-unit scheme to be
constructed on derelict land, formerly the site of St
Bernadette's Church that was demolished in 2018. Regenda Group is
requesting a grant of £275,000, to deliver specialist units which
will provide accommodation for adults with additional needs. The
former church site is owned by the Archdiocese of Liverpool,
which has agreed to offer a 125-year lease for the land to be
developed as supported housing, specifically for people with
learning disabilities.
- St. Monica's Church, Stewart Avenue, Bootle (Sefton): a
10-unit scheme on a cleared site adjacent to the St Monica's
Church Parish Centre in Bootle. Crosby Housing is requesting
£200,000 to deliver a 100% social rent development.
- Stork Inn, Billinge, St Helens: Torus 62 Ltd is seeking a
grant of £650,000 to convert the old pub and build new properties
on the adjacent brownfield site, creating 26-unit 100% affordable
scheme.
The Liverpool City Region received £59.5m in Government funding
to support the creation of new homes on previously developed
brownfield sites. The target of enabling construction of 3,970
new homes has been smashed with 4,521 homes built.
An interim one-year BLF Extension programme has been approved by
Government with further funding of £13,895,370 for the Liverpool
City Region before its successor, the National Housing
Development programme, is launched in 2026.
Earlier this year, the Combined Authority approved a list of
housing development projects to potentially receive the BLF
Extension programme funding, and delegated authority to the
Executive Director – Investment and Delivery to approve the Full
Business Cases for these projects, as they come forward. These
further five priority projects have been identified by the
Combined Authority's Housing team, with the collaboration and
support of the relevant Local Authorities, and the Combined
Authority will be asked to add them to the project pipeline.
