The photograph below, taken during redevelopment of the Lovell & Christmas jam factory site (later Newforge Foods, now Morrisons) in about 1963/64, shows a large house which - according to a handwritten note on the back of the original photograph - may have been called 'Treehaven'. We are trying to find out more about this building: where exactly it stood, when it was built, who lived there, etc. If you can help, please contact Beryl Plent.

Many members will have noticed that building work is now underway in Sandfield Road: the conversion of the 1898 Liverpool District Lighting Company power station building to 5 apartments, which was granted planning permission (ref. 09F/1205) in August 2009. In addition, the planning application to convert the former Gateacre Chapel Hall into two dwellings (ref. 10F/0581) was approved in June 2010, and work on this will presumably begin shortly.

The following applications have recently been submitted, and comments are being invited by the City Council's Planning Department:

Ref. 10T/2307 to carry out tree works at 1 Gateacre Brow, We understand that this is for pruning of branches to increase the visibility of proposed new signage at the doctors' surgery. (The signs themselves will be the subject of a separate application for Advertisement Consent).

Ref. 10O/2198 to erect a four-bedroom dwelling in the garden of 21 Grange Weint. This is an application for Outline Planning Permission, and appears to be similar to the one submitted in 2005 (which was refused) in succession to the expired planning permission originally granted in 2000.