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Discover a city region investing in its future and providing businesses with the expertise, assets and infrastructure required to spark innovation, fuel growth and deliver excellence.

Liverpool City Region offers investors possibilities across a broad range of industry sectors including: financial and professional services, low carbon, digital and creative industries, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, logistics and leisure.

In the last 10 years, we have attracted over £7.5 bn of physical investment and over the next decade will deliver some of the UK’s largest and most ambitious development and infrastructure schemes; Liverpool2 deep water terminal phase 2, Mersey Tidal Barrage and the Liverpool and Wirral Waters waterfront transformation are just a small selection of major schemes underway.

Businesses locating here can find a high quality mix of office space and locations from corporate HQ’s and creative spaces to science and tech hubs with specialist labs and R&D facilities as well as industrial zones and port centric manufacturing in a Freeport with tailored  support for the creation of new sites combined with large spaces ready for development.

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6M

People live within a 1 hour drive time

50%

Of UK manufacturers’ closest port

£1bn

Invested in Liverpool’s logistics infrastructure

£2.1bn

of Foreign Direct Investment over last 4 years

£2.1bn

Economy – 3rd largest regional economy in NW

250,000

Developing specialist expertise at 12 universities

Freeport

Offering unrivalled tax and customs incentives

UK Hub

For vaccine discovery, development and manufacture

Royal College of Physicians

The Knowledge Quarter, Liverpool City Centre

The Knowledge Quarter is centrally located in Liverpool city centre and sits adjacent to the University of Liverpool campus and the world renowned Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Major facilities completed in the last few years include the £25 million Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator,  £164million Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and the £35million Spine building, home to Northern headquarters of The Royal College of Physicians.

The site spans around 30 hectares,  providing opportunities for commercial use, specialising in health and life science companies. The next phase of development will begin in late 2022 and finish in early 2024, branded HEMISPHERE, which will include over 120,000 sq ft of office space.

Types of units & facilities – office, commercial and R&D space.

Sci-Tech Daresbury, Halton

Sci-Tech Daresbury is a National Science and Innovation Campus and home to UK Research and Innovation’s northern laboratory – STFC’s Daresbury. Sci-Tech has an ambitious growth plan to develop 1 million sq ft of space for science and technology, business and research use creating up to 10,000 jobs.

Located in the borough of Halton, around 30km from Liverpool city centre – Sci Tech is well placed to attract talent from the Liverpool city region and Manchester.

Types of units & facilities – Offices, lab space and workshops.

Techspace Two building
Aerial view of The Heath

The Heath, Halton

The Heath Business and Technical Park is one of the UK’s leading independent business and science parks.

Home to 125 businesses from a variety of business sizes and sectors The Heath offers fully serviced lab, tech and office space, plus a variety of on-site support facilities including Engineering Hub, Conference and Events Centre, Gym and Café. Site access and security patrol is 24/7. Ample free car parking is available.  

The Heath has easy access to the regions road, mainline rail services and 2 international airports.

Types of units & facilities – small, medium & large office space and lab space.

Rocksavage International, Runcorn

Rocksavage International is a multi-use development opportunity within the existing, 250 acre, Top Tier COMAH site, INOVYN complex in Runcorn. The facility will be attractive to advanced manufacturing and semi-tech companies, companies with high power demands, and those in the chemical and related industries which would benefit from access to INOVYN’s downstream products and on site facilities.

Halton aerial from August 2016
Baltic Creative Digital House building

Baltic Creative CIC, Liverpool City Centre

In order to stop the displacement of creatives and artists from the city centre, Baltic Creative CIC was born in 2009. Public investment was utilised to purchase and refurbish 18 warehouses in a semi-derelict area of Liverpool, and kick started the growth of the Baltic Triangle – one of Liverpool’s most edgy and culturally diverse areas.

With future exciting developments planned for the future this is one to watch and to be a part of.

Types of units & facilities – creative warehouse style spaces to let.

Cains Brewery Village, Liverpool City Centre

Cains brewery village is an area of workspaces and venues for independent thinkers, makers and innovators to start ‘brewing their ideas’.

The Brewery Works provides workspaces for rent in the heart of one of Liverpool’s most exciting, up and coming areas.

Types of units & facilities – creative office space to rent.

Cains Brewery close up on Higson's Brewery sign
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Freeport Zones

The LCR Freeport will be a multi-gateway freeport covering 300 hectares of land. This will include three tax sites and strategically located customs zones.

Parkside, St Helens: the largest strategic employment site in the City Region. Parkside is located in St Helens close to major motorway networks (M6 and M62). It will attract advanced manufacturing and logistics businesses.

3MG, Widnes offers direct connections to the UK motorway network and rail access from the West Coast Main Line. 3MG is already involved in the Hydrogen economy supporting capital investment in low carbon fuels and infrastructure – supporting the city region’s green powered ambitions.

Wirral Waters located close to the Birkenhead Docks, Wirral waters has port connectivity, direct access to the M53 motorway and is located within the Mersey Waters Enterprise Zone. Wirral waters is ideal to attract port-centric businesses, advanced manufacturing, innovation and research and development activities.

Liverpool Waters, Liverpool City Centre

Liverpool Waters is a multi-use development that is proposed to incorporate offices, visitor attractions, retail, leisure, education, international football stadium and community uses as well as a significant residential presence.

Everton FC’s £500m stadium is under construction, as is the £70m Isle of Man Ferry Terminal. Land is shortly to be identified and released for further development for residential, commercial, hotel and other uses.

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Aerial shot of Knowsley

Knowsley Business Park

With approximately 800 businesses located on site and over 15,000 employees, Knowsley business park is a hub of activity – key sectors include manufacturing, distribution, online retail, transport, communication and banking, finance and insurance.

Knowsley business park has the capability to offer space to businesses who are looking to expand or relocate to the Liverpool city region and strong demand has encouraged the development of new units.

Types of units/facilities – available office space for rent.

Atlantic Business Park, Sefton

Atlantic Park occupies 52 acres and is strategically located in the Bootle area of the city region, enabling it to capitalise on its close proximity to the Liverpool City Centre, The Port of Liverpool and the national motorway network.

Atlantic Park is capable of hosting a wide range of occupiers and would welcome businesses from a variety of key sectors who are looking to locate in the city region.

Types of units/facilities – available office space for rent (Outline Planning Consent for 800,000 sq ft) and industrial/logistics units/occupiers available.

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Littlewoods Film Studios, Liverpool

Littlewoods Film Studios, Liverpool

Home to an array of creative workspace, Littlewoods film studios will be a one-stop shop for media creation. The transformation of an iconic building in the city region will result in ‘a huge complex that’ll be a breeding ground for the best creative talents in the UK’.

Types of units /facilities – 300,000 sq ft of space available and opportunities to locate. 

Hamilton Square Creative Quarter

Located between Birkenhead town centre and the Wirral Waters education campus, Hamilton Square’s Creative Quarter is set up to be an exciting addition to the Liverpool city region. The ambition is to utilise the already visually appealing space and create a mixed use development including the recent redevelopment of warehouse space, likened to that of the city centre’s Baltic Triangle. The plan includes new residential space as well as around 3,600 sq ft of retail and commercial space.

Types of units/facilities – Commercial office space for rent, creative warehouse space run by MAKE CIC. 

Hamilton Square Creative Quarter
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Pall Mall, Liverpool City Centre

Situated in the heart of Liverpool’s business district, Pall Mall development will be a 400,000 sq.ft Grade A office development. The site will encompass office, hotel and commercial space. The project is due to run between 2023-2028 and promises to be one of the most exciting and central developments in Liverpool City Centre.

Types of units/facilities – Office, commercial and hotel development. 

Bootle Strand, Sefton

Within Bootle there are opportunities for investment in commercial, leisure, retail and residential schemes. Nowhere in the UK has more direct fibre access to the US and Ireland –and large datacentre investment is underway.

Types of units/facilities – Office, leisure and retail space.

Bootle strand with people eating, drinking and walking

KEY FACTS & FIGURES

Three Freeport tax sites covering almost 800 acres of available land
Grade A office space £24 per sq ft compared to £68.50 in London
Two international airports in 45 min drive time
Reach London in under 2 hours by train
Investing £1bn in logistics infrastructure

Whether it’s access to skilled employees, a thriving hub of culture, or world-leading innovation expertise, you’ll find it all here.

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Colin Sinclair, Chief Executive of Knowledge Quarter Liverpool and Sciontec Developments Limited
Top property professional appointed to head up high-powered Liverpool City Region investment task force

ONE of the region’s most influential property professionals has been appointed to head up the Invest Liverpool City Region (ILCR) Partnership Taskforce. Colin Sinclair, Chief Executive of Knowledge Quarter Liverpool and Sciontec Developments Limited, has been unveiled as Chair of the Taskforce which brings together senior representatives from local authorities, the private sector and key …

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Leading science and innovation campus Sci-Tech Daresbury has revealed the fifth cohort of the Future Club, its exclusive business growth scheme.  Providing a range of technical and business support to innovative science and technology start-ups, the programme will help each business in the intake to realise its growth potential.  Sci-Tech Daresbury has been handpicking five …

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