Downtown Info&Links
We are currently growing this dedicated downtown links page for Liverpool.
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Downtown Business and Regeneration
Liverpool Vision
The publicly funded city centre regeneration companyLiverpool Chamber of Commerce
First port of call for any savvy downtown business, join and you can make it even better!City Central Business Improvement District
New site for Liverpool's first Business Improvement District
Chinatown Business Association
Official website for the business community of Europe’s oldest ChinatownWaterfront Business Association
Business Association for the L1 area of downtown – will help any small business downtown. Also coordinates work in the Duke St/Bold St districtBusiness Liverpool
Downtown help, from residential investment and business support to starting a new venture. Comprehensive portal for everything to do with business start up and development, finance and investing… the ‘one stop shop’ for downtown investment opportunities.Liverpool Daily Post & Echo
Comprehensive news and informed analysis on downtowns economyLiverpool Leisure & Stores Committee.
No website but e-mail edoliver[at]claytonsquare.freeserve.co.ukThe People Pool
Downtown job accessLiverpool European Capital of Culture 2008
News and good links about culture downtown and further afield
Liverpool Central Library
William Brown Street 0151 233 5829
One of the busiest libraries in the UK. Major collections including excellent IT, European Union, Local History and Reference.
Downtown Neighbourhood Organisations - business, amenity and community
Hope St Association
Culture and community come together in bustling Hope StFriends of St James Cemetery
Restoration, festivals and community events in a great downtown space
Liverpool's Georgian Quarter
Site dedicated to the Canning and Toxeth areas of downtown
Friends of Liverpool Monuments
A new resource from local campaigners to record and monitor new and exisiting public monuments.
Downtown Community and Creative resources
The People's Centre
Downtown contact point and base for many community organisations
The Athenaeum
Liverpool's 200 year old club and library... ‘A quiet haven in the heart of a busy English city’.
The Independent District
Building a downtown creative community with studios, workshops and exhibition space
Liverpool Centre for Arts Development
Based on Brownlow Hill, downtown, LCAD provide creatives with the business savvy needed to be successful practitioners
The Door
The downtown base for Merseyside Youth Association
Quiggins
Much more than just the centre of Liverpool’s alternative cultures but also business incubator, retail heaven and excellent café food!Bluecoat Chambers
Centre for arts but also home to many groups..also office and workshops available providing a real community atmosphere
City Councillors for downtown wards
Councillor Joe Anderson (also leader of Liverpool Labour Group)
Councillor Paul Brant
Councillor Steve Munby
Councillor Jane Corbett
Councillor Frank Prendergast
Councillor John McIntosh
Councillor Nick Small
Councillor Sharon Sullivan
Councillor Ritchie White
Member of Parliament
Louise Elman Member of Parliament for the ‘Riverside’ constituency that includes downtown
0151 236 2969
Liverpool City Council – key downtown contacts
City Centre Management Team email
Business Improvement Districts, Gold Zones, business and environmental issuesDowntown One Stop Shop.
Call in for a whole range of services and other assistance of phone 0151 233 3000 24 hrs a day for all enquiries
Municipal Buildings
Dale Street
L69 2DH
Statistics, economic bulletins and other key data on downtown and the rest of the city Liverpool City Council
City Focus Team
provides strategic overview and guides public funding downtown.
Liverpool First
More Partnership led downtown stuff
Emergency Services - Police, Ambulance and FireDowntown Community Fire Station
Canning Place, (N.B Shortly moving to St Anne's St)
Liverpool
L1 8EN.Contact Numbers:
Station Commander: 0151 708 6116
Fire Station: 0151 709 0692
Community Fire Safety: 0151 486 3982Merseyside Police Downtown Headquarters
Canning Place
Liverpool
Merseyside
L69 1JD
Switchboard: 0151 709 6010
TravelMerseytravel
Comprehensive Public Transport information portal
24 Hatton Garden
Liverpool
L3 2ANTel: 0151 227 5181
Fax: 0151 236 2457
9am - 4.30pm Monday to FridaysMersey Tunnels
Costs etc…also interesting history of the structures
Georges Dock Building
Pier Head
Liverpool L3 1DD
Tel: 0151 236 8602Merseyrail
Getting round and about downtown on the underground including info on bus links from every station
0151 702 2071
Mersey Ferries
Take a ferry cross the River Mersey from the Liverpool Pierhead to Birkenhead (Woodside Terminal) and Wallasey (Seacombe Terminal)
Victoria Place,
Seacombe,
Wallasey,
CH44 6QY
Telephone [switchboard]: 0151 639 0609
Fax: 0151 639 0578
Email: info@merseyferries.co.uk
Liverpool Taxi Drivers
Did you know Liverpool has FIVE times as many Hackney Cabs as Manchester?
If you want to get around town, just hail a cab - it's cheap and quick - and it's what Liverpudlians do.
All the up to date news on taxis, also good contacts for lost property, complaints etc
Downtown MediaFor the latest downtown news look at the Daily Post and Echo online.
Radio City
Broadcasting to the bay Area from the 440 ft tall tower in the heart heart of downtown Liverpool!BBC Radio Merseyside
The most popular local BBC Radio station in the UKJust Liverpool
Excellent free magazine that provides articles, comment and events listings - Just pick one upSouth Liverpool News
lots of good downtown infoClassic Gold
for all you ancient downtowners!Liverpool Reporter
news and online radioThe Scottie Press
Communnity based newspaper that covers issues downtown and the north end. International in reach, from the spiritual heart of the citySpace
icliverpool's slinky magazine is now online for all your needs about stylish metropolitan livingINFORM
Incredibly rich listings mag has a site tooLiverpol Future
Magazine dedicated to exploring and promoting new ideas for the city's rebirth
Your Move
'Liverpool's guide to property and life'! Hugely succcesful property magazine that has charted the rise and rise of downtown's residential renaissance. Growing number of articles on matters of interest to downtowners
More miscellaneous Downtown info
Liverpool Hotels
Comprehensive information centre on hotels and accommodation downtown and citywide
Sugarvine
Keep abreast about what’s going on in Liverpool’s burgeoning restaurant scene. Also covers much of the Bay Area!
Residential Review
an unrelated newsletter produced by Liverpool business with excellent downtown property news.
Visit Liverpool
Information of downtown’s major cultural institutions and visitor attractions
Clubsinliverpool
Newly launched site highlighting downtowns nightlifeToxteth TV
Downtown TV and film production companyLiverpool Links
Comprehensive links site for downtown and the wider metropolitan area
List and map of some downtown parks
Liverpool Futures
Long established discussion forum for issues including planning, architecture and heritage.See Liverpool
An independent 40-page guide for the visitor to Liverpool, with more than 100 linksMerseyscene
Concentrates on bars but has informations on masses of other downtown activities tooArtinliverpool
Basically a portal of news, groups, galleries and events - comprehensive, well worth visiting
Selected sites of generic downtown/metropolitan interestLiverpool Tales
Liverpool writing from John Williams. Intro page text has become a classic.Liverpool Pictorial
One of, if not THE best, photographic collection of contemporary LiverpoolWeb Aviation
Whole series of arial photographs of downtown and the rest of LiverpoolLiverpool Skyline
Pictorial website dedicated to downtown's changing cityscape and skylineLiverpool Needs You
A call for the 300 000 scousers who left from the 1960's onwards to come back home, we need you!Liverpool Views
A truly eclectic, though informative online collection of views, contacts and other info about the mighty metropolis
Merseyworld
Comprehensive directory and links service for the whole metropolis!
Merseyside Civic Society
new website for increasingly active built environment campaignersLiverpool Architecture
Site of Liverpool Architectural SocietyLiverpool in Pictures
Excellent commercial gallery that catalogues it's collection in easy to use themes, 'People', Parks', 'Downtown' etc
National and International sites of interest & assistance
International Downtown AssociationArchitecture Centre Network
representing the twenty or so architecture centres around the UK
Association of Town Centre Managers
Like we say…there’s only ONE downtown!
URBED
Leading urbanist research company from the UK, produce the excellent SUN initiativeMetropolis Magazine
leading urbanist magazine from US
Last Updated: November 2005
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