{"id":7502,"date":"2025-09-01T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=7502"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:46:28","slug":"graham-to-start-71m-enabling-works-at-liverpool-central-docks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/graham-to-start-71m-enabling-works-at-liverpool-central-docks\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham to start \u00a371m enabling works at Liverpool Central Docks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peel Waters has given contractor Graham the thumbs up to start \u00a371m of enabling works at Liverpool Central Docks to pave the way for the biggest neighbourhood within its \u00a35bn Liverpool Waters scheme.<\/p>\n

The main contract, procured through Pagabo\u2019s Civil Engineering & Infrastructure Framework, covers underground utilities, roads and public realm to unlock around 2,350 homes.<\/p>\n

It also includes delivery of the 2.1-hectare Central Park, which will become one of the city\u2019s largest green spaces, complete with hundreds of new trees, sports facilities, play areas and landscaped zones.<\/p>\n

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The contractor is the largest part of an \u00a381.1m infrastructure package being backed by \u00a355.2m from Homes England and \u00a325.9m of Peel Waters\u2019 own investment, following the site\u2019s designation last year as a New Homes Accelerator project by the Chancellor.<\/p>\n

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Central Docks site \u2013 the largest brownfield site in Liverpool<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Work will begin this autumn, laying the foundations for a mixed-tenure neighbourhood with affordable housing, build-to-rent, build-to-sell and later living accommodation all set around the new park.<\/p>\n

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Alastair Lewis, contracts director at Graham, said the scheme \u201cwill play a pivotal role in further regeneration of the docklands area\u201d while Peel Waters managing director James Whittaker hailed it as a \u201cmajor step forward in turning our vision for Central Docks into more of a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Councillor Liam Robinson, leader of Liverpool City Council, described the deal as \u201ca major milestone\u201d that would showcase \u201chow transformational brownfield regeneration can and should be done\u201d while acting as a catalyst for wider plans in north Liverpool.<\/p>\n

The 60-hectare Liverpool Waters site is being redeveloped over 30 years into a mixed-use waterfront district, with Central Docks at its heart.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/nGhHtZr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peel Waters has given contractor Graham the thumbs up to start \u00a371m of enabling works at Liverpool Central Docks to pave the way for the biggest neighbourhood within its \u00a35bn Liverpool Waters scheme. The main contract, procured through Pagabo\u2019s Civil Engineering & Infrastructure Framework, covers underground utilities, roads and public realm to unlock around 2,350 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-7502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7503,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions\/7503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}