Liverpool City Council has commissioned a team of placemaking experts, led by Levitt Bernstein and featuring Arup, Montagu Evans, and Turner Works, to develop a plan for the revitalisation of the previously neglected 75-acre zone, Pumpfields, on the northern edge of Liverpool city centre. The goal of the project will be to create an ambitious residential-led mixed-use neighbourhood that attracts significant investment to the area and creates a vibrant new community. The plan will focus on developing the area, which is adjacent to the Leeds Street Corridor and will restitch it to the rest of north Liverpool’s city centre.
The initiative will complement the recently announced New Town Taskforce submission, spanning five kilometres north of Liverpool city centre, with scoping aimed at stimulating further regeneration while creating at least 10,000 new homes across the city region. The Pumpfields team will work with local stakeholders to develop a delivery master plan that fits the needs of the community and creates a high-quality place to live, work, and play. The vows will offer opportunities for development relating to establishing guidelines, a framework, reusing existing structures, improving infrastructure, and public spaces connections.
Once completed, the Liverpool City Council will work on adopting the plan as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to guide all future developments. The project will not only improve connectivity with the city centre and the waterfront but also inform the work on the New Town scheme. Liverpool City Council has collaborated with Sefton Council, Homes England, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, and key area landowners to set out a 10-year vision for the area which could breathe life back into communities struggling with high levels of deprivation, unlocking its economic potential for years to come.
Councillor Nick Small, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet member for Growth and Development, welcomes the project, saying that the Pumpfield area is crucial to the city’s vision for expanding out of the city centre and into north Liverpool. He stressed that it’s a long-neglected area that’s ripe for regeneration to reshape it economically and physically. He mentioned that the project aimed to create opportunities for people, from new jobs to better schools and improved transportation, and to build a sustainable community that will be a great place to live for generations to come. Jo McCafferty, architect and director Levitt Bernstein, added that the project provided her team with a dream commission to stitch back together this key quarter in Liverpool into the wider area
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