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Thursday 5 November 2026, 8:00 - 12:00

Hilton Liverpool City Centre, 3 Thomas Steers Way, Liverpool L1 8LW

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Liverpool City Region Development Update 2026

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Liverpool is on the march. Plans for grade A offices and residential skyscrapers are in the works after a period of stagnation for the city, indicating an upturn in investor appetite. And don’t forget the rest of the city region as the likes of Wirral and St Helens push on with regeneration projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds. Learn about all of this and much more at Place’s annual exploration of Liverpool City Region.

Speakers confirmed include

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Mayor Steve Rotheram

Liverpool City Region

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Mayor Steve Rotheram

Liverpool City Region

In 2017, Rotheram was elected as the first ever Liverpool City Region Mayor, representing 1.6m people across the boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and the Wirral and was subsequently re-elected in 2021. Since taking office, he has created 60,000 jobs, 30,000 apprenticeships and 30,000 homes. He has taken the historic decision to take back control of the region’s buses, launched a new £500m fleet of publicly owned fleet of trains, and led the region’s economic recovery from the pandemic with a £150m COVID Recovery Fund. In 2024, Rotheram was elected for a third term as Mayor with 68% of the vote, his highest personal mandate and more than any other elected Mayor in the country.
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Nuala Gallagher

corporate director of city development, Liverpool City Council

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Nuala Gallagher

corporate director of city development, Liverpool City Council

Gallagher has more than two decades of experience in development and placemaking internationally. She is a registered architect and a graduate of Columbia University with a master’s in urban design. Her previous roles include director of planning, environment & placemaking at Limerick City and County Council, head of regeneration for the London Borough of Newham, director for economy of place at Bristol City Council and director of city centre development at Belfast City Council. She has also spent time working in New York, leading on sustainable urban development and teaching at Columbia University. In 2023, Gallagher joined Liverpool City Council.
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Kate Howe

development director, Tritax Big Box Development

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Kate Howe

development director, Tritax Big Box Development

Howe has 20 years of property experience and joined Tritax in 2022 as a director based in the Manchester office. She has a broad range of development experience, having delivered residential, industrial, and mixed-use development projects across the UK. Howe is currently leading on the delivery of over 3m sq ft of space across the North West.
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Steven Knowles

director of development management, Muse

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Steven Knowles

director of development management, Muse

Knowles joined the business in 2023 and brings over 30 years’ experience delivering major, complex regeneration projects across the region. He leads our development management team, working with partners to bring forward large-scale, mixed-use, and residential neighbourhoods that create real opportunities for communities. In Merseyside, he is driving forward a next chapter of St Helens delivering a sustainable, inclusive, and community-focused urban neighbourhood through ECF partnership. He has previously delivered new offices in the Wirral as part of the growth company and is working with Liverpool City Council on an urban sustainable residential development. He is passionate about working collaboratively to unlock challenging city-centre sites, with a focus on sustainability and long-term social value, ensuring that the places we create are built to last.
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Tim Games

executive director of investment & delivery, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

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Tim Games

executive director of investment & delivery, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Games leads investment, business growth, housing delivery and devolved programmes. With extensive experience in public sector transformation and strategic partnerships, he is focused on unlocking opportunity, driving innovation, accelerating inclusive economic growth across the city region.
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Sandy Livingstone

chief executive, Onward

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Sandy Livingstone

chief executive, Onward

Livingstone is a chartered surveyor with extensive housing experience, he has led property, growth, development, building safety, digital and IT strategy. Livingstone focuses on improving customer and neighbourhood services, investing in our existing homes and building new homes for our communities across the North West of England.
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Lisa Harris

executive director of place, St Helens Council

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Lisa Harris

executive director of place, St Helens Council

Harris is leading one of the North West's most ambitious regeneration programmes. She oversees housing, planning, transport, infrastructure and environmental services, driving investment, sustainable growth and place-making initiatives that support thriving communities and long-term economic development.
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Gillian Whitfield

head of major development, Knowsley Council

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Mark Alexander

director, Freeths

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Mark Alexander

director, Freeths

Alexander specialises in Real Estate matters. He has acted for a range of clients both domestically and internationally, covering private and public sectors. He is able to act on the acquisition and disposal of property, landlord and tenant matters and property finance. Alexander's experience includes acting for developers, investors and lenders (primary, secondary and tertiary) covering transactions in the residential, commercial, retail, industrial and care sectors.
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Andrew Byrne

director, CBRE

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Andrew Byrne

director, CBRE

Byrne specialises in office leasing and occupier advisory services across the North West. With more than 18 years experience in the commercial property market, he advises occupiers and landlords on acquisitions, disposals, leasing strategies and asset repositioning. He has worked with a broad range of public and private sector organisations, delivering strategic property advice to clients including the Royal College of Physicians, Liverpool John Moores University, Maersk, Asics, Unilever, Bruntwood and Liverpool City Council. He is known for helping clients align their real estate strategies with their wider business objectives, whether supporting business growth, improving workplace performance or maximising the value of existing assets.
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Darren Muir Pegasus Group

Darren Muir

senior director planning, Pegasus Group

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Darren Muir

senior director planning, Pegasus Group

Muir co-leads the Liverpool office and is leading the planning for the Kings masterplan development on Liverpool's waterfront, amongst several other major regeneration projects. He is chair of the Royal Town Planning Institute for the North West and planning & transport director for the Baltic Triangle Area CIC.
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Siobhan O'Boyle

associate director, Hawkins\Brown

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Siobhan O'Boyle

associate director, Hawkins\Brown

O'Boyle is an architect specialising in regeneration, infrastructure, and place-making projects across the UK. After working at Hawkins\Brown in London on the delivery of landmark projects including Tottenham Court Road Crossrail Station and the Thames Tideway Tunnel, she relocated to Manchester in 2017 to lead major regeneration and infrastructure projects. She has delivered Strategic Regeneration Frameworks, business cases and visioning studies for numerous local authorities and is currently leading the Liverpool Central Strategic Regeneration Framework on behalf of Liverpool City Council, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Platform 4.
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Tickets cost £125+VAT. Local authorities and registered providers can purchase tickets at a 50% discount.

There will be a mix of presentations and panels. Breakfast and lunch are included, providing plenty of opportunity for business development.

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