Where we began

After acquiring The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company in 2006, The Peel Group set to work on Liverpool Waters, an ambitious 30-year vision to comprehensively transform the city’s northern docks. Regenerating a 60-hectare stretch to create a world-class, high-quality, mixed-use waterfront quarter in central Liverpool and bringing life back to the historic docklands.

In partnership

Working in partnership with Liverpool City Council, the UK Government and other stakeholders, Liverpool Waters secured outline planning permission in 2013, with approximately 2,000,000 sq m of development floorspace including 9,000 residential units, 315,000 sq m of business space and 53,000 sq m of hotel and conference facilities.

As one of the largest single-ownership port-city development schemes in Europe, delivery of Liverpool Waters is possible without the need for complex and time-consuming land assembly negotiations.

The gravity of adding Liverpool Waters to the city’s existing waterfront offer will see Liverpool competing with the likes of Hamburg, Boston, Toronto and Barcelona in terms of the scale and diversity of its waterfront offer and associated economy.

Known locally as the ‘Dockers Clock’, the Victoria Clock Tower is one of Liverpool Waters most loved features.

In 2008, the Liverpool Waters team invested £600,000 to restore the Bascule Bridge. Originally built in 1932, the bridge is an iconic feature of the dock road.