A redesign of key parts of Liverpool City Centre could see new green spaces, cycle lanes and better roads created.
Liverpool City Council is set to receive support from the City Region Combined authority to help develop a range of active travel schemes across the city centre.
Set to be approved by cabinet next week, the move will see Liverpool Council receive £671,085 for the development of the schemes with a further £324,662 to help promote more walking and cycling in the city.
The funding is being drawn from a successful bid by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority which received £37.5m from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Levelling Up Fund.
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The funding will go towards developing schemes including St George’s Gateway in the heart of the city centre, extending the Dock Road cycle facilities and developments in the Ropewalks area - starting with Bold Street.
£70,000 of the funds will also go towards furthering the Upper Central Masterplan, a key scheme that looks at providing better connectivity from the city centre to the expanding Knowledge Quarter and encompassing Paddington Village.
According to a council report, accepting the funding will enable the city council to “design highways infrastructure which supports and promotes more active travel.”
It adds that it will also look to plug “gaps within our existing infrastructure, but also provides the much needed funding to promote active travel and support behavioural change.”
£154,000 of the funding will go towards a development study for the St George’s Gateway arm of the schemes.
The study will consider a range of possible options for the scheme, including amendments to the exit of the Queensway Tunnel and the potential to deliver new public realm and greenspace improvements in the footprint left by the removal of the flyover structures.
The proposals could also see the reinstatement of the historic obelisk which was erected when the Queensway tunnel was first opened.
Further amendments to the St George’s Gateway scheme would be to improve crossings and install segregated cycle lanes along Byrom Street and James Street.
The funding would also go towards finalising a design for Bold Street after the original scheme for the Liverpool Without Walls programme requires revising.
Approval of the full funding package is set to be decided on at the next city cabinet meeting taking place on March 5.
