City Centre - Outer Zones
University Edge
- The London Road part of this area now has an improved shopping centre. This serves a growing new residential community;
- It is also home to the Royal Liverpool Teaching Hospital. The former Royal Infirmary has also been refurbished. Teaching and research for the Health Authority and Universities now takes place here;
- To the north is a mix of light industrial uses;
- To the south is the University of Liverpool. This is adding on more facilities;
- The city is one of the country's first choices for students; its popularity growing faster than Oxford and Cambridge. The number of students wanting to study here rose 12% between 2003 and 2004. By 2005-6, there has been another 14% rise - taking the numbers to over 30,000 students wishing to come here in September 2006.
Hope
- The Hope Street Quarter is a vibrant; mixed-use community. It builds upon the areas great history of arts; education and fine buildings;
- It is home to the city's two cathedrals and universities. It is also a place of great culture; home to the Philharmonic Hall; the Everyman and Unity Theatres; and the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts;
- Amongst its fine Georgian terraced buildings is 59 Rodney Street. This is the former home of the famous photographer E. Chambré Hardman. The building is now a major tourist attraction.
Canning
- Like Hope, the Canning area still has much of its historic Georgian and early Victorian buildings. In the 1970s, 80s and 90s these were often turned into flats or bedsits. However, today - as their values have risen so much - there is a new trend of them being converted back into spacious family homes once more.
- The area has its own historic pocket park, Falkner Square.