Council wants to make more of Everton Park
A NEW strategy is being developed for Everton Park which Liverpool City Council hopes could make it “the epicentre of North Liverpool’s regeration”.
A report due before the council’s executive this week states that the currently underused park could be reconfigured to improve links to the city centre and to ongoing developments such as the planned £451m Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the £150m Project Jennifer scheme.
It argues that the park’s closeness to Lime Street station means it has the potential to be “one of the city’s top visitor attractions, offering the best views of the city centre, the waterfront and the World Heritage Site”.
“In this way it could follow the example of Gaudi’s Parc Guell in Barcelona,” it states.
The council-owned, 40 hectare park was created in the 1980s following house clearance programmes, and the plan to improve it are based on raising money by selling off “peripheral” areas to developers.
“The phased and carefully managed sale of development sites will release capital that can be reinvested for the benefit of the retained park”.
It added that further consultation work needed to be carried out with local communities to define the boundaries for development sites and to develop a programme of improvement projects.
