{"id":23153,"date":"2019-07-01T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=23153"},"modified":"2019-06-29T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T16:47:08","slug":"looking-ahead-to-ihbcs-brighton-2020-school-old-towns-new-futures-and-ihbcbrighton2020-knowsley-makes-radical-move-buy-kirkby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=23153","title":{"rendered":"Looking ahead to IHBC\u2019s Brighton 2020 School \u2013 \u2018OLD TOWNS: NEW FUTURES\u2019 &#8211; and #IHBCBrighton2020.\u00a0 Knowsley makes \u2018radical move\u2019\u2026 Buy Kirkby town centre\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23156\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kirby_Local_Gov_website_290619.png\" alt=\"town centre and people\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Knowsley Council has made an offer to buy Kirkby town centre in what it describes as a \u2018radical move\u2019.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: LocalGov website<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>LocalGov writes:<\/p>\n<p>Knowsley Council has taken this decision after repeated delays to regeneration schemes by the current owners \u2013 St. Modwen \u2013 and other private sector organisations. \u2018This council has been calling on the private sector to regenerate Kirkby town centre for a long time, but enough is enough,\u2019 said Cllr Graham Morgan, leader of Knowsley Council. \u2018We have worked tirelessly to encourage and support the private sector to deliver on their plans for Kirkby. However, despite our best efforts, the redevelopment of the town centre still hasn\u2019t happened and it\u2019s quite clear that we need to find a different model.\u2019 St. Modwen had been \u2018extremely cautious\u2019 and refused to set a start date for redevelopment work to begin, said Cllr Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Knowsley Council said it considered all options before concluding that purchasing the town centre was the best way forward. \u2018We have never owned the shopping centre in Kirkby so buying it would be a big shift for us and a big decision to make,\u2019 said Cllr Morgan. \u2018It would come with significant risks and challenges but we have concluded that the best chance we have to get this scheme completed would be to buy St. Modwen\u2019s assets and deliver the rest of the improvements \u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for St. Modwen commented: \u2018I can confirm that Knowsley Council and St. Modwen are in talks regarding Knowsley Council making an offer for St. Modwen\u2019s interest in Kirkby Town Centre\u2019\u2026 The agreement would see Knowsley Council and St. Modwen work in partnership to speed up the regeneration of the town centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Council-makes-radical-move-to-buy-town-centre\/47483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-23155\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AS2020-Brighton_flyer.png\" alt=\"flyer\" width=\"163\" height=\"214\" \/>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/brighton.ihbc.org.uk\/\">Brighton 2020<\/a> where you can sign up for the IHBC\u2019s 2020 School alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowsley Council has made an offer to buy Kirkby town centre in what it describes as a \u2018radical move\u2019. image: LocalGov website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23157,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}