Liverpool FC move ahead with plans for new £50M academy

Liverpool Football Club are pressing ahead with plans for their £50M academy redevelopment after submitting a formal planning application to Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council.

The project will see the Liverpool first team leave their current training facilities at Melwood and merge with the famous Merseyside club’s academy on the same site at Kirkby.

Included in the plans is a full-size indoor pitch, an upgrade to the main pitch with enhanced floodlighting and a 500 seater stand.

A training campus will be developed and upgrades carried out to the existing community playing fields and facilities at the adjacent site on Simonswood Lane.

This will provide the local community with new changing rooms, a car park, a new pedestrian and cycle pathway, lighting and improved security.

A public consultation was held in March that outlined the club’s plans for the redevelopment.

The planning application will now be considered by the council’s planning committee later this year.

In a statement on the club’s website, Liverpool said they would continue to work closely with Knowsley Borough Council to update local residents and businesses on the progress of the application and subsequent developments.

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