Dear Jm
 
Thank you for your recent correspondence, which has been received by the
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Merseytravel. Please use the
reference number 4216372 in any future correspondence on this matter.
 
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Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your recent request made under the Freedom of Information
Act. Please find the Combined Authority’s response to your enquiry below.

 1. The amount of money used by the LCRCA in a joint enterprise with
Liverpool council and The Department for Housing and Communities, to
buy back the leaseholds on the failed Chinatown developments from its
administrators?

There is no joint enterprise in place between LCRCA, Liverpool City
Council (LCC) and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local
Government in relation to the site on Great George Street. LCRCA’s
involvement is through the provision of grant funding to LCC. LCRCA has a
Grant Funding Agreement with LCC for up to a total £10.973m for site
acquisition and associated SDLT, holding, and marketing costs, from monies
originally provided to LCRCA by MHCLG for this purpose.

 2. The social value for the people of Liverpool and the wider city region
that this allocation or joint enterprise will bring?

This project supports one of the key priorities set out in the report of
the Strategic Futures Advisory Panel namely, the need for strong
regeneration partnerships to kickstart stalled sites, among which Great
George Street is one of the most prominent in the city. As such the
acquisition will provide the following benefits:

• Catalyst to a programme of significant regeneration on a prominent
stalled site
• Job opportunities both in the construction and end use phases of
development.
• Opportunity to realise public realm improvements and amenities,
encouraging more green space and better connectivity to the adjacent
Baltic Triangle and Liverpool 1/Chinatown areas.
• Improved investor confidence in Liverpool’s development market,
sending a strong signal of intent that LCC is beginning to positively
address a legacy of stalled sites.

 3. The positions that the Metro mayor Steve Rotherham held within
Liverpool city council during the time that the Chinatown parcel of
land was handed over to the failed developer ?

Steve Rotheram was a Liverpool City Council councillor for Fazakerley ward
between 2002 and 2011. He was the Member of Parliament for Liverpool
Walton from 2010 to 2017 and has been the Mayor of the Liverpool City
Region since 2017. He stepped down from the Council in 2011, and our
understanding is that the land was transferred by the Council years later
in 2015.

 4. The amounts spent on legal advice on the same deal and or joint
enterprise?

LCRCA’s legal advice was provided solely by its in-house legal team.

 5. Which organisations have been involved either in the protracted
negotiations and which developers and or registered social landlords
have been within the meetings where negotiations have taken place in
relation to the the parcels of land that have been re purchased from
the official receivers?

LCRCA was not directly involved in these negotiations which were conducted
by LCC, and therefore we do not hold this information.

 6. To whom has any money been paid and who will be the final recipients
of such public funds ?

LCRCA funds paid to Liverpool City Council, who in turn acquired the site
from the appointed receivers.

I trust that this information is of interest to you.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review, which should be addressed to:

Louise Outram

Chief Legal Officer / Monitoring Officer

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

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If you are not content with the result of your internal review, you also
have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner, whose address
is

The Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire SK9 5AF

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Andy Henderson

Senior Information Management Officer | LCRCA | Mann Island, PO Box 1976,
Liverpool, L69 3HN

Email: [3][Liverpool City Region Combined Authority request email]

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