Major plans for a new Liverpool development will "power the next stage of the city's renaissance", city council leader Liam Robinson said as his cabinet approved a project that could see 800 homes built at the city's southern waterfront.

The first image and details of the planned new multi-generational community at Festival Gardens were unveiled this month, along with news that developers Urban Splash and Igloo would be delivering it.

They are proposing to deliver 34 different styles of housing on the former 1984 International Garden Festival site that was later used as a tip site. A significant remediation project has been undertaken since the council bought the site to prepare it for housing development.

On Tuesday, the cabinet met to approve the scheme, meaning a planning application

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