David Boyer

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David Boyer
How is Liverpool Facing the Challenge of
Regeneration?

• Highways Manager
• Regeneration
• Liverpool City Council

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Liverpool - The Context

• 30 years of decline in manufacturing and port
  related industry
• Population reduced by 153,000 or 25 since 1970
• City Infrastructure designed for population of
  750,000
• High Council Tax
• Poor Performing Services
• Increasing Car Ownership/usage
• 2 Air Quality Management Areas
• 26 wards in City fall within 10 most deprived
  wards in England

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Regeneration in the 1960s
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A Renaissance

• Liverpool Vision Strategic Regeneration
  Framework
• City Centre Movement Strategy
• Liverpools Public Realm Strategy

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The Golden Triangle Approach
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The Vision

• The Strategic Regeneration Framework sets a high
  but attainable vision for Liverpool City Centre

• An environment of world class quality
• An attractive physical and economic magnet for
  investment
• A pivotal role in the economic growth and
  prosperity of the region
• A world class cultural
  status
  with an
  
  international brand

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The Strategic Regeneration Framework

• The Action Areas
• Pier Head
• Commercial District
• Castle Street District
• Cultural Quarter
• Retail Core
• Kings Waterfront
• Hope Street Quarter

• The Supporting Themes
• European Capital of Culture
• Movement
• Public Realm
• Community Engagement
• Reinforcing City Communities
• Business Development

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New Aspirations

• Shift to place making
• High quality
• Long design life
• Ease of maintenance

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Evolution of 21st Century Liverpool

• Queen Square -

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Evolution of 21st Century Liverpool

• Ropewalks Squares

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Evolution of 21st Century Liverpool

• Hewitts Place

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Evolution of 21st Century Liverpool

• Cavern Quarter

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Paradise Street Development Scheme

• 1.4m sq ft of Retail
• 465 Residential Units
• 2 Hotels
• Cinema
• 230,000 sq ft of Leisure
• New Urban Park
• 3000 parking spaces
• New Bus Station
• 800m Private Sector Investment
• 3000 construction jobs
• 4000 long term jobs

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Paradise Street Development Scheme
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Chavasse Park - before
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Chavasse Park - now
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Chavasse Park - future
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Future Liverpool Waterfront

• 9,000 seat arena
• 1,500 seat conference centre
• hotel providing a total 250 bedrooms
• 18,000 square metres of office space,
• 9,000 square metres of new retail and leisure
  floorspace
• a public plaza, and
• up to 1,800 residential homes            

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Kings Dock
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Kings Dock
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Principles of the City Centre Movement Strategy

• Improve accessibility to the City Centre to aid
  economic regeneration and to provide access for
  all
• Create a people friendly City Centre that is
  safe, clean and attractive for work, shopping,
  business, tourism and leisure
• Make best use of the City Centres key transport
  assets the Mersey rail stations, bus
  facilities, ferries and major car parks
• Support the improvement of the City Centres
  architecture and townscape
• Ensure that measures can be funded and
  implemented.

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Movement

• The priority is to implement a balanced movement
  strategy that delivers an approachable and
  accessible City Centre for all.

• Pedestrian priority areas
• Rerouting traffic
• Car parking - on/off street
• Tram
• Buses taxis
• Trains
• Cyclists
• Ferries

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Connecting Liverpool
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CCMS Plan
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CCMS Plan
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CCMS Williamson Square
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CCMS Delights to come

• Castle Street

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Delights to come

• Pier Head

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City Centre Feature Lighting Scheme
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Regeneration as a balancing act

• 2bn Investment programme
• 217,000 jobs in city centre
• Working age population starting to increase
• UNESCO World Heritage Site 2004
• Record levels of Inward investment
• European Capital of Culture 2008

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David Boyer, Highways Manager Regeneration
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