Page Moss residents on where new £20m funding should go

"I'VE lived here my whole life, but I feel like a lot of the people you see walking around now are just people on their way to the bus stop to go somewhere else.

- By ELLIOT JESSETT

Jack’s words reference a problem expressed by many of the people we spoke to in Page Moss this week.

Page Moss continues to face significant challenges when it comes to deprivation, with particular issues around child poverty, and higher levels of income inequality and unemployment rates. According to several residents, there is a sense that Page Moss has been forgotten about.

However, on Monday, Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne announced the approval of £20m in funding for Page Moss, all part of the ‘Pride in Place’ programme. This scheme was announced by the UK Government in 2025, with nearly 250 areas promised £20m over 10 years to invest in their local communities.

To find out what people think about the £20m investment, and how the money should be spent, we visited Page Moss and asked local residents what they would like to see created in the area.

Frank Traynor, 71, who the ECHO met in front of the old taxi training centre and bus terminus on Stockbridge Lane, said: “In the last 20 years, Page Moss has lost its character. Page Moss was quite a busy little hub, but unfortunately there’s nothing here any more that makes you stay, like a good pub, for instance, or a good restaurant.

“It’s lost its personality. Page Moss has become a place that people just drive through on their way in or out of Liverpool. So if there’s this money and investment coming in, I’d like to see it spent on improving that.”

“What we could really use is a leisure centre, a sport facility like a swimming pool, where people can get together and do activities.”

These sentiments were shared by Eddie Robb, 63, who grew up in Page Moss, but has spent time abroad, including a spell living in Florida, before moving back to care for his elderly parents.