LIVERPOOL’S MAYORAL DEVELOPMENT ZONES: Review of achievements 2012-2017 (February 2018 revised edition) Liverpool’s Mayoral Development Zones - R e v i e w | 1 2012-2016 Foreword On becoming Mayor of Liverpool in April 2012, I made a series of commitments which included creating 20,000 new jobs in the city. Making such a commitment at that time, whilst the country was in the middle of a crippling recession, coupled with a series of unprecedented government cuts being imposed on Liverpool, was always going to be a tall order. But Liverpool is a city that I passionately believe in. I have often said that the city’s best years are to come, and I truly believe that over the last four years we have proven what is possible to achieve against all the odds. Key to the success of this important commitment is how this City Council can work with other agencies and partners, pulling together the resources needed so that we create the opportunities to work with new and existing businesses, in turn helping them to grow and create those new jobs. To do this, over the last five years, the city has focussed its attention on five key Mayoral Development Zones and two Enterprise Zones, each chosen as areas with the most potential for generating employment, particularly for local people in adjacent residential areas where jobs are vitally needed. We have used our land resources, connections and partnerships to provide the sites, support and opportunities to attract businesses to invest in these zones. Since early 2012, over £2.45 billion worth of development within them has seen existing jobs safeguarded in new and refurbished offices, warehouses, industries, health facilities, schools and colleges. This document looks back at the achievements over the last five years across the five Mayoral Development Zones and the Liverpool City Enterprise Zone. And it doesn’t stop there! Another £1.3 billion is currently on site in these zones, providing some 1,589 new jobs when all the space created is filled. The City Council is also looking at innovative new ways to increase its rental income from purchasing key properties or land through the “Invest to Earn” initiative, or through investing in expanding businesses such as Liverpool John Lennon Airport so that it can share in future profits to reinvest in our services. I hope after reading about the great strides this city has taken and continues to deliver, you will agree that Liverpool remains an increasingly attractive place to invest and do COVER PHOTO: TOP LEFT – BARCLAYS CALL business. CENTRE, WAVERTREE TECHNOLOGY PARK (CENTRAL LIVERPOOL); TOP RIGHT – T.J. MORRIS, Joe Anderson, OBE G-PARK (STONEBRIDGE CROSS); BOTTOM – “L175”, LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PARK, (SOUTH Mayor of Liverpool LIVERPOOL) Contents Starting Point: Origin of the Zones 1 Value added (what the Council does to help) 3 North Liverpool Mayoral Development Zone 5 South Liverpool Mayoral Development Zone 9 Stonebridge Cross Mayoral Development Zone 13 Central Liverpool Mayoral Development Zone 17 Knowledge Quarter Mayoral Development Zone 21 Liverpool City Enterprise Zone 25 Liverpool Waters Enterprise Zone 31 Summary of Totals 35 Liverpool’s Mayoral Development Zones - R e v i e w | 3 Starting Point: Origin of the Zones The last five years has seen Liverpool show The Mayor took responsibility for developing the a remarkable resilience in a post-recession strategic vision of the city, promoting Liverpool and the City Region at home (opening our “Liverpool in London” period with over £5.2 billion worth of office) and abroad, and implementing a single completed investment since January 2012 investment programme package that included:- having brought new jobs and training a new Enterprise Zone for North Liverpool and the opportunities, 12 new schools and over Central Business District which offers incentives for 5,000 new homes. Today, the city is companies to set up business in Liverpool and experiencing its highest ever levels of encourages existing city-based business to grow; investment with some £1 billion being the potential to capture the entire benefit of any invested each year, and more schemes in growth in business rates from the Enterprise Zone for use in five other key economic areas of the city the pipeline. – North Liverpool, the Knowledge Quarter in the city centre, Stonebridge Cross, the Eastern A significant boost to the city’s ability to promote, Approaches (Central Liverpool) and Speke-Garston encourage, foster and facilitate this investment and (South Liverpool) areas (referred to as Mayoral development activity came about when the new Development Zones or MDZs). Mayor of Liverpool came into office in May 2012. This had been brought about by changes introduced In addition, the deal has seen the Mayor acting as the through the Localism Act 2011 and the updated chair of an investment board – the Mayoral Develop- Local Government Act 2000 which allowed local ment Corporation – to oversee the Local Finance for authorities to hold a referendum to change their Growth package and all of the land, commercial and governance arrangements to an elected mayor. residential buildings including the assets that were previously owned by the North West Development Liverpool embraced this opportunity which offered Agency, much of which sits inside these zones. the chance to form a new governance model for the city, the powers and resources of which would be Now, five years on, this document looks back at what primarily supplied by the City Deal agreement with has been achieved in the Mayoral Development Zones the Government. This deal has seen the establish- and the Liverpool City Enterprise Zone, as well as the ment of the first Mayoral Development Corporation developing aspiration for the proposed £5.5billion outside London, supported by a Local Finance for Liverpool Waters development which is set to be Growth package worth an initial £130 million. delivered in the coming decades. Liverpool’s Mayoral Development Zones - R e v i e w | 1 A565 A59 Liverpool2 M58 A5036 Port of Liverpool A59 A580 Pier A5058 Head A5047 M57 A57 M62 A561 ENTERPRISE ZONES: LIVERPOOL WATERS A562 LIVERPOOL CITY ENTERPRISE ZONE Port of MAYORAL DEVELOPMENT ZONES: Garston NORTH LIVERPOOL KNOWLEDGE QUARTER STONEBRIDGE CROSS CENTRAL LIVERPOOL SOUTH LIVERPOOL Liverpool John LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE Lennon Airport Crown copyright and database rights 2017 Ordnance Survey 100018351 Liverpool’s Mayoral Development Zones - R e v i e w | 2 2 1 3 Value added (what the Council does to help) Liverpool is a city with a wealth of talent, opportunities – including Council or other public skills, land and property opportunities which owned sites wherever possible – to potential investors, or to existing companies based in the city can benefit companies seeking a base to wishing to find land or premises in which to expand. operate and flourish. Our task is to identify the opportunities and bring investors to the Once an opportunity has been identified, interested table along with all the back-up needed to investors/companies are supported through the range of financial support options for businesses such encourage them to see Liverpool as the right as the Mayoral Investment Fund. For qualifying location for their business. Although some investment projects, the support on offer may involve of what has been achieved in the Mayoral equity, loan or funding packages. The City is within an Development Zones will have happened assisted area and as a result there is flexibility in the naturally, the Council has been and remains provision of funding packages available. The City also has the City Enterprise Zone which can offer incoming actively involved in helping several major businesses certain financial benefits to provide projects come to fruition. assistance in site assembly or preparation where possible contamination exists, amongst others. Our priorities are to encourage investment that brings positive benefits to the city in terms of jobs, The Regeneration Development Team supports education and training facilities, and greater housing developers and investors deliver their projects, from choices, all of which form part of the Mayor’s concept stage through to completion. Planning & pledges. Our citizens need access to training to Building Control officers offer guidance where improve their skills, well paid job opportunities, and a necessary through the planning stages, whilst advice good choice of both rented and homes to buy in is also given by the Heritage and Urban Design Team order to keep them within the city limits as Council where buildings need to be successfully meshed into Tax payers. the urban fabric in sensitive environments such as the city’s commercial World Heritage Site that forms a The City Council provides support through a number major part of the Liverpool City Enterprise Zone. of teams with a regeneration focus, and Liverpool Vision, all of whom work together to market the city In North Liverpool in particular, the Development and showcase potential development sites and Team has worked closely with Liverpool Football Liverpool’s Mayoral Development Zones - R e v i e w | 3 4 5 5 6 1. Briggs Automotive, makers of the BAC Mono sports car, Speke, South Liverpool. 2. Mercedes Benz Roanza Van, Derby Road, North Liverpool. Club and Registered Social Landlord partner Your 3. “The Hangar”, Capital & Centrica’s latest industrial units completed in December 2015 at Liverpool International Housing Group on the £260million Anfield Project. Business Park, South Liverpool. The scheme has not only seen LFC’s stadium seating capacity expanded and a new square created, but our 4. Apprentice training programme, North Liverpool. housing policy officers have led on a major refurbish- 5. Liverpool John Lennon Airport – now with LCC as an investor. ment programme which has seen outstanding results in refurbishing dilapidated terraced housing, bringing 6.