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City and North Neighbourhood Management Area

From top: the NMS logo, Kensington Library, Great Georges Square, Victoria Settlement in Everton

Area Context:

City and North covers the wards of Kirkdale, Everton, Kensington & Fairfield, Central, Picton and Riverside.  It includes the waterfront from the Sefton boundary to Dingle, extending eastwards to include Kirkdale, Everton Park to the west of Stanley Park.  It also takes in City Centre, the universities and cathedrals and out to Kensington, Wavertree and Edge Hill, down to Smithdown Road and southwards along the waterfront including Liverpool Marina, Brunswick Dock and Dingle.

The area is home to 83,000 people, an estimated 14,000 of whom live within the City Centre itself which contains indigenous communities based around Marybone, St Andrews, Canning, L1 and Dingle.  Newcomers are attracted to the City Centre lifestyle offered by apartments along the waterfront, in Ropewalks and in the live/work quarter in the commercial district.

The City Centre also has a large student population attracted to the city by the academic standard set by the University of Liverpool, John Moores University and Hope University College.  Many of these students live in specially created accommodation within the City Centre.

The demand created by this growing City Centre population has seen the introduction of longer retail hours, particularly in the new convenience stores that have opened across the City Centre in recent years.  It has also resulted in the opening of three new walk-in health centres at Great Charlotte Street, Marybone and Campbell Square.

To the north of the City Centre, well established and committed communities have worked through the years to retain strong social networks through two generations of radical disruption to their economic and physical environment.  The Eldonians Village is a nationally recognised example of community regeneration providing the type of homes people want with access to local employment.

Housing:

There is a lower proportion of owner occupation within City and North, and correspondingly higher percentages of social and privately rented housing.  Council property is particularly important in Everton.

Terraced housing is predominant especially in Kensington, Picton and Edge Hill, where many areas are affected by the Housing Market Renewal Initiative to either refurbish existing homes, or replace it with a wider choice of modern homes sought by 21st century homeowners.  The City Centre has a much higher proportion of flats - reflecting recent increases in the student and single professional population.

Employment:

  • City Centre shops, offices and tourist attractions 
  • Docks and adjacent industrial areas
  • Wavertree Technology Park, Liverpool Digital
  • Industrial Estates (Rose Place, Taylor Street)
  • Parliament Street area     

Employment and training requirements for residents are provided by the JET services in North Liverpool, Eastern Link and the People Pool located within Liverpool Business Centre.

Shops and Community Facilities:

City and North contains both the City Centre and London Road shopping areas which are also provide much employment opportunities for local people.  Outside the centre are district centres at Breck Road, Park Road, Edge Hill; Edge Lane Retail Warehouse Park; and Local Centres at Kensington, Smithdown, Lodge Lane, and Great Homer Street.

Green Spaces:

Conservation Areas:

  • City Centre: Castle Street, William Brown Street, Rodney Street, Albert Dock, Duke Street
  • Newsham Park
  • Edge Hill
  • Liverpool Mercantile Maritime World Heritage Site     

Regeneration Initiatives:

Neighbourhood Area Agreement

The Neighbourhood Area Agreement (NAA) outlines how the many partner agencies and community and voluntary organisations are working together to make City and North an improving Neighbourhood, which is a better place to live and work. The NAA sets out a two year program for 2010-12 based around the four main themes:

  • A Safer Stronger Community

  • Children and Young People

  • Health and Older People

  • Economic Development and Enterprise

For a full copy of the document please click on link below

City and North Neighbourhood Area Agreement 2010-12 (PDF [1.2Mb] opens in new window)

For a copy of the summary 'In Brief' please click on link below

City and North NAA 'In Brief' 2010-12 (PDF [918.6Kb] opens in new window)

Neighbourhood Manager with overall responsibility is: Paul Morrison

Assistant Neighbourhood Manager: Adrian Devers

Looking after the City Centre

The city centre is looked after by the City Centre Management Team which has strong links with the business community, through a network of organisations that includes the 6 Gold Zones, the Waterfront and Duke St/Bold St Business Associations and the Liverpool Leisure & Stores Committee. 

At the centre of this network is the City Central Business Improvement District - one of 22 national pilots which have powers to enable businesses within the retail core to contribute to and have a greater say in the management of their trading environment and the surrounding public realm.   

Mike Cockburn is the City Centre Neighbourhood Manager. 

Contact:

For more information, contact the City Centre Neighbourhood Management Team by telephoning Liverpool Direct on 0151 233 3001 or call into your nearest One Stop Shop.

Email cityandnorthneigbourhood@liverpool.gov.uk 

Further information:

For more information on Business Improvement Districts, visit the following websites: 
www.citycentralbid.com
www.ukbids.org