Proposals

How the proposed tower could look on Kings Dock St. Image: Carpenter Investments

'Awful' - Plans for Baltic Triangle tower block could be scrapped

The Cove Resort project is expected to transform Southport's waterfront. Image previously released by The Cove/Leonard Design Architects

'Unique' £75m Cove Resort confirmed for Southport

Inside proposed new food hall in unexpected Liverpool location. Image: Studio 256

Inside the new food hall in unexpected city centre location

Thousands of charging points are needed.

£10m investment into electric charging across city region

Controversial plans to close ticket offices across a number of Liverpool City Region railway stations have been scrapped. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Controversial plans to close train station ticket offices scrapped

Home Bargains, Audley Street. Photo: Google Street View

Home Bargains could be partially demolished to make way for flats

The former Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Photo: Google

Major new plans revealed for old Royal Liverpool Hospital

Hooters Liverpool.

Plans for new apartments above controversial Liverpool Hooters bar

Southport ferris wheel. Photo by Andrew Hall via Unsplash

Southport’s Big Wheel could be moved to make way for new cafe

Black taxi cabs at a rank waiting for passengers.

Taxi fares set to rise in Merseyside - by up to 14% on some tariffs

Clothes hanging in shop Picture: Getty

Lib Dems want 1p tax on every new item of clothing

The derelict pub on Prescot Road. Image: Google

Council sign off on proposals for derelict Liverpool pub

Liverpool ONE retailers are being asked to close their doors this winter. Photo by Emma Dukes.

Liverpool ONE stores set to close their doors this winter

The derelict pub on Prescot Road, Old Swan, has stood vacant for a number of years. Image: Google

Fate of abandoned Liverpool pub to be decided

Black taxi cabs at a rank waiting for passengers.

Taxi fares set to rise in Merseyside - by up to 18% on some tariffs

Liverpool’s iconic Lewis’s building. Photo by Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Fresh transformation plans for iconic Lewis’s building

How the £200m development could look. Photo by Legacie Developments.

£200m flats to form ‘key part’ of emerging Northern Quarter

Plans for the Shorrocks Hill site include 23 bespoke or custom-built homes. Image: Ascot Group/ Sefotn Council

Fears over luxury housing estate on Formby beach side plot

Virgin Media O2 will cut up to 2,000 jobs

Virgin Media O2 to cut more than a tenth of UK workforce

View from Seacombe over to Liverpool. Image: Ed Barnes

Plans for 3,500 homes overlooking Mersey and city skyline unveiled

Gary Wright, senior highways inspector, at the site of a pothole reported by the public

£3.7m pothole repair handout not enough, insist region’s leaders

What the two new multi storey blocks on land around Pall Mall, Lanyork Road and Chiswick Street could look like. Image: Planning documents

New £83m city centre flats get green light despite housing concerns

The Queen Victoria, Walton.

Queen Victoria pub could be transformed into apartments

Royal Daffodil. Image: El Pollock

Historic River Mersey ferry to become floating restaurant

Meet Liverpool’s last surviving violin maker

BBC Radio Merseyside, on Hanover Street, Liverpool. Image: Phil Nash/Wikimedia Commons

BBC Radio Merseyside sees listener numbers drop amid cutback plans

How Market Street in St Helens could look. Image: sthelenstowncentre.co.uk

Images and details of St Helens regeneration masterplan revealed

Millions of patients in England will be able to get prescriptions for seven common conditions, plus the contraceptive pill and more blood pressure checks, directly from pharmacies under new plans to tackle the GP crisis in the UK.

Pharmacies to offer prescriptions for 7 new conditions amid GP crisis

Pope Francis allows women to vote in bishops’ meeting for first time

Prescot Picture Palace. Image: Knowsley Council

Crumbling Grade II listed former cinema to be restored

The South Dry Dock.

New images of what huge Canning Dock revamp could look like

landlords may soon be given more power to deal with anti-social tenants

Landlords to be given extra powers to evict ‘anti-social’ tenants

Mount Pleasant car park. Image: Google

Major city car park could have charges raised to meet cash shortfall

Mimi was thrown over the wall of Freshfields Animal Rescue car park.

News bulletin: Train strikes, abandoned dog finds forever home

Pier Head, Liverpool.

Thousands expected at Pier Head as Eurovision fan village approved

Change is coming in rugby league. (Picture: Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com)

Five criteria to determine promotion and relegation from Super League

Council tax in Liverpool to increase by nearly 5% after fiery meeting

129 Cineworld venues face risk of closure

The 129 Cineworld cinemas at risk as chain struggles to find buyer

Full list of places that will see a council tax increase in April 2023

Sean Martin, Chair of the New Brighton Coastal Community, spoke out against fines given to small businesses in Wirral in 2019. Credit: Ed Barnes

Dog poo war rages in Wirral as residents rail at council tactics