Tesco and St Modwen in Liverpool legal stand-off
Published: 15 January, 2010
The stand-off between Tesco and Liverpool City Council, St Modwen Developments and Sainsbury's over a £150m development in Liverpool's Great Homer Street area continues as the council and its partners announced they will challenge Tesco's application for a judicial review into their plans.
Liverpool Council selected St Modwen to develop a 110,000-sq ft Sainsbury's store with ancillary retail, housing and civic uses on the site between Great Homer Street and Scotland Road in Everton under the banner of 'Project Jennifer.”. But Tesco lodged a rival proposal for a smaller foodstore on part of the site, which was refused consent last year.
Now Tesco has launched a judicial review, claiming the decision to refuse was wrong in law, and the legal wranglings are likely to delay the regeneration project.
