IN-DEPTH NEWS

Everton for Everton

Everton Development Trust (EDT) has added its voice to those already clamouring for Everton FC to move back to Everton ward at the heart of Liverpool.

They believe that Kingsway Park, an area close to the Kingsway Tunnel entrance and presently occupied by Bestway (Holdings) is an ideal new home for Liverpool’s oldest football club.

Fully in support of the move to relocate the Football Club closer to the City centre is Everton ward councillor Jane Corbett who says, “The site in question adjoins Project Jennifer, already set to provide a ground-breaking partnership between developers, the City Council and the local community. As a local social enterprise Everton Development Trust would be ideally placed to work with the developers and the football club to ensure that local people derive maximum benefit from the move."

Speaking for EDT, situated on Great Homer Street, Andrew Williams says “Using an inner-city regeneration site to build a new home for Everton FC makes complete sense. Everton ward is one of the most deprived in the country. A properly integrated project like this would provide a huge boost to the skills base and employment prospects of the local community. EDT can help to make this a reality.”

Bestway and Liverpool City Council have proposed a commercial development partnership involving a stadium for Everton on the Kingsway Park site and brownfield land to the south and east of the tunnel entrance.

In conjunction with Project Jennifer it would provide an economic shot in the arm the residents of Everton residents who are within the 10% most deprived in the country — average income per household in Everton is £5,545pa lower than in the city as a whole and 47.3% of the working-age population of the ward are out of work.