Setback for £100m new city station plan

DELAYS FOR PROJECT... BUT MAYOR INSISTS IT WILL STILL BE BUILT

- By LIAM THORP ECHO Political Editor

A NEW £100m station to serve the thriving Baltic Triangle area of the city centre faces significant delays, the ECHO understands.

Plans were approved by Liverpool City Council in April last year after the plans were formally submitted by Mayor Steve Rotheram's Liverpool City Region Combined Authority in November 2024.

However, the ECHO has been told that, nine months on, the CA is yet to appoint a main contractor.

It is understood that there is now expected to be a significant delay in the delivery of this crucial project, which leaders had previously said would be completed by the end of next year.

Mayor Rotheram said he is not happy about the delays and is pushing his teams to find ways to move faster on the project.

He says the national picture, including the fallout from HS2, has had an impact.

The planned station, seen as a key part of the Mayor's 'Merseyrail for All' pledge, will be created by redeveloping the disused former St James Station, which lies beneath the Baltic Triangle.

The application site involves an existing cutting to the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network, located midway between Liverpool Central Station and Brunswick Station.

It was hoped that work on the station could have started last year, with a completion date of late 2027. It was later suggested that March 2028 was a more likely opening date.