Anfield regeneration update City leaders are set to consider a formal framework for the regeneration of Anfield. This is the next step in the important process of breathing new life into north Liverpool, part of which includes a proposed expansion of the stadium. Local residents and businesses are to be asked for their views on a document, called the Anfield Spatial Regeneration Framework (SRF), before it is finalised and formally adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document by Liverpool City Council. To browse through the SRF document now, click here. Liverpool managing director, Ian Ayre, welcomed the news and said: "The publication of the draft SRF document is another important milestone in the regeneration project as we continue this exciting journey to transform the Anfield area. "Any final decision regarding a future stadium expansion continues to be based on certainty - certainty that we can obtain the necessary land around the stadium to facilitate any expansion; certainty that there is demand for any future expansion; certainty that we have home owners' support; and certainty that we will be able to navigate the complex planning landscape. "We regard the progress to date as extremely positive and will continue to be fully supportive of the regeneration project with Liverpool City Council and Your Housing Group." The draft SRF sets out the planning framework for development in the Anfield area. Published today in draft form, it outlines a number of proposals to regenerate the area and potentially create some 700 long-term jobs. It will be considered by Liverpool City Council's cabinet on February 7. If approved in draft form, 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. 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 per cent 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 publication of today's document 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. The publication of the draft SRF comes in the midst of major improvements which have already been made to the wider Anfield area. These include over £72m of housing since 2005, the demolition of derelict properties, the restoration of Stanley Park including the Isla Gladstone conservatory, and the construction of the new Four Oaks Primary School and Mere Lane Health Centre and the expansion of the Football Match Parking Zone. The draft SRF is designed to support proposals which will accelerate these improvements and create the right environment for economic development, employment growth and personal wellbeing. http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/154342-anfield-regeneration-update
All of these steps may seem frustrating but they have to be taken to prevent many costly law suits later. Still it is an important step.
One way to improve the area would be to demolish the large derelict building on the other side of the Park. Could turn it into a Lemon museum instead.
Surely a golf course so spectators can continue to watch the ball go over their head? (not really appropriate nowadays but still...)
No we don't. However, the council have already granted themselves those powers and made it clear that they are prepared to use them.
This is from The Guardian: Liverpool hope to submit plans to redevelop Anfield in April and complete work on an expanded Main Stand before 2018, according to the latest regeneration proposal for the area. A document entitled the Anfield Spatial Regeneration Framework (SRF) was released on Thursday, giving more details on Liverpool's stadium scheme, plus the city council's attempt to improve housing and job prospects in Anfield. The SRF will be considered by the council on 7 February and, if the draft is approved, a four-week public consultation will take place before it can be officially adopted by the council in April. Liverpool intend to apply for planning permission to expand the Main Stand and Anfield Road Stand, although the city council has still to acquire four houses â owned by two people â that would need to be demolished as part of the plan. Deals have been agreed for 67 of the 71 properties affected by the stadium plans and compulsory purchase orders could be served on the remaining four houses by the end of February. CPOs, however, are considered a last resort and could potentially cause a delay of at least 12 months. While Liverpool will seek planning permission to expand two sides of Anfield, the SRF draft mentions that "subject to residents' support and planning approval, the club would wish to expand its Main Stand, followed by potential redevelopment of its Anfield Road stand". The club would initially focus on a complex expansion of its Main Stand before deciding on the viability of following suit at the Anfield Road end. While no designs are included in the SRF, it is understood Liverpool intend to build "up and over" the existing Main Stand, partially demolish the existing structure, and finally join the old and new stands together. It is projected there will be no reduction in Anfield's matchday capacity while work is under way*. "The stadium is expected to be a landmark not only for the Anfield area but representing the Liverpool city on a global stage," the SRF reads. "Therefore the highest quality of design is required." The SRF also reveals plans for a "96 Avenue" in honour of those who died at Hillsborough. The "wide, high-quality" avenue would run behind the new Main Stand between Stanley Park and Walton Breck Road and "would be a major focal point for the area". Liverpool have held discussions about a possible relocation of the Hillsborough Memorial with representatives of the families. The Memorial may have to be moved during construction work and the aim, according to the SRF, is to have "an area of quiet contemplation and reflection for the Hillsborough Memorial". * Great news
The regeneration of the area is thanks to our clubs expansion but our clubs expansion is thanks to the compulsory purchase of many homes of people who have lived in those streets for generations, while I'm glad that there's progress I think its wrong that the club are relying on the council to buy the properties for as low a price as possible before demolition, surely LFC have enough money in the bank to give those residents a more than fair deal for their properties, after all when the ground is refurbished the seat prices will shoot up anyway and put more down in the owners pockets.
How about a pic of JH digging the first sod outta the ground like the fat texan? Will that do for starters.
I hate CPOs with an absolute passion but I don't think they've been used so far mate (I'm willing to stand corrected if I'm wrong). I believe that the four left are owned by absentee landlords who haven't been traced yet. Finally we have brought up the remaining properties by paying a fair price AND with the promise of helping to regenerate the area. It's just so frustrating that it's taken so long for the club and council to realise that by treating the local people with respect they can make things work. Why did we have to spend twenty years waging war with them?? ****ing morons tried to do everything on the sly and it's cost the club millions upon millions in lost revenue whilst turning the area into a hellhole
Until the last 10 years, expansion was always some form of future dream. It was only when commercial returns were clearly identified as the limiter of growth that land acquisition became a critical factor. Now Billy I can go back further than you and the area was a ****hole by the 60s. Its decline cannot all be laid at LFC's door.
Dave it was rough in the 60's (my dad lived up Sunbury Rd for ten years) but if you saw it now mate you'd know what I mean. The place looks like a warzone ffs. It's sad Dave honest to god. Just because it was rough back in the day the majority of people were still decent folk who deserved better. Expansion should never have been a future dream and never was. It just should have been planned properly when we were doing the Centenary etc. It might still have taken ten years from then but would have given us a decade of an extra 10-15000 a week (lost revenue at todays prices of over £100 million). Certain people at the club (conveniently ignored by the council) deliberately set out on the policy of buying up properties and leaving them empty in the early 90s because they'd tried and failed to strong arm the locals out. They knew damn well how much money they could make and yet they still went about it with unbelievably dodgy deals and practices to try and save themselves a few quid. Bunch of ****ing spivs cost the club a ****ing fortune and the area its dignity
Billy that was our problem(just like Everton)the club in a built up area with no scope to expand, when I started going in the early 70's Anfield was no better or worse than Kenny, Walton Rd, Wavertree, Single, Bootle etc, the same type of terraced house in similar streets. Other clubs had the same problem, City got given a new stadium on a plate, Derby, Stoke, Bolton amongst other had to relocate, but of those others that ended up relocating they never had national politics, Evertonions on the local council, and skullduggery by the likes of Moores and the cowboys going on, yep we lost out when the prem came into being because the bootroom ethics had reached the end of the road but considering our standing in the game back then both domestically and in European competition terms we got dumped on big time by Moore's but because our success was fresh in the mind we couldn't see it coming.
