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Work has begun to clear an area of land off Whittle Street in Everton(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is pumping cash into our regionWork has begun to clear an area of land off Whittle Street in Everton(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
Crumbling buildings, old car parks and disused land could be swept away to deliver more than 550 new homes as part of a multi-million pound investment in the Liverpool City Region. Councils from across the six local authorities in our regions will receive key funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to fast track the building of new houses.<\/p>\n
For the first time, Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region<\/a>, and Andy Burnham<\/a>, Mayor of Greater Manchester, working with Homes England, will shape the course of action for new affordable housing money in their regions, setting out plans for the types of homes that get built and sites prioritised for construction and how many suitable bids for grant funding could come forward in each area. This means homes are built where they are needed most, designed around local priorities, and shaped by people who know their communities best.<\/p>\n Steve Reed, Housing Secretary, said local government was being backed by Whitehall to \u201cturn wastelands into homes\u201d and get spades in the ground. The financial settlement comes less than two months after Mr Reed\u2019s department turned down a bid for a \u201cnew town\u201d in the north of Liverpool stretching into Sefton<\/a> that has the potential to deliver 10,000 new homes.<\/a><\/p>\n The government is delivering \u00a313.8m as part of a wider \u00a340m investment across Liverpool City Region and Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n The latest round of funding will prompt work on 555 new homes in Liverpool City Region, building on top of 4,000 already in the pipeline enabled by \u00a360m previously invested. The funding will also help advance social housing plans by enabling providers to get going on bids for projects, break ground sooner, and kickstart thousands of desperately needed new homes for families.<\/p>\n Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said: \u201cThis marks the single biggest earmarked investment in housing our region has ever seen \u2013 and the largest pot of funding we\u2019ve ever seen for social and affordable homes. It\u2019s a massive vote of confidence from the government in our region\u2019s ability to deliver.<\/p>\n \u201cSince I was elected, we\u2019ve built more than 32,000 homes, invested a further \u00a360m developing brownfield sites, and retrofitted 10,000 houses.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve built up real momentum \u2013 but now we\u2019re ready to turbocharge our housebuilding plans. This new funding will help us go even further towards our target of building 16,000 new social and affordable homes over the next decade \u2013 good quality homes that local people can be proud of while also helping us to tackle the homelessness crisis.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got the vision, the skills, and an abundance of ambition to help the government hit its national targets \u2013 but, most importantly, this is about helping more local people and families into safe, secure, and affordable homes of their own. Homes where people can put down roots, build their futures, and get on the housing ladder.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re ambitious, we\u2019re excited, and we\u2019re ready to get to work \u2013 so let\u2019s build, baby, build.\u201d<\/p>\n The cash injection will also fire up local jobs and drive growth, backed by the government\u2019s \u00a339 billion investment the Social and Affordable Homes Programme to deliver around 300,000 social and affordable homes over its lifetime. An indicative spend of \u00a3700m has been marked up for social housing across the Liverpool City Region.<\/p>\n Final spending will depend on the number and quality of bids approved by Homes England.<\/p>\n Mr Reed added: \u201cThis investment will be life changing for thousands of families in the North West waiting for a safe, secure home of their own. We\u2019re putting our regional Mayors firmly in the driving seat to build \u2013 with new cash to turn wastelands into homes and slash social housing waiting lists.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re backing the area all the way to get spades in the ground, fire up those diggers and build, baby, build.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is pumping cash into our regionWork has begun to clear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,6333,179,1835,8892,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-554423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-combined-authority","14":"tag-steve-rotheram","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115506685213587029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mayor](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_Mayor-of-Greater-Manchester-Andy-Burnhamand-Mayor-of-Liverpool-City-Region-Steve-Rotheram-pledge-t.jpeg\")
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham(left),and Mayor of Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n![\"Housing](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_Labour-Conf.jpg\")
Housing Secretary Steve Reed with his \u201cBuild Baby Build\u201d hats(Image: Andy Stenning\/Daily Mirror)<\/p>\n