£5m from Municipal Building sale to fix city’s worst roads
Some of the cash raised from the sale of the historic Municipal Building in Liverpool, bought in February by a Singapore-based luxury hotel developer for £10.2m, will be used to blitz pothole problems on the city’s roads.
Liverpool City Council says it is set to invest a further £5m into fixing potholes, having already invested £3m this year and £88m since 2014 to repair the city’s highways and footpaths.
However, it said it faces a £439m backlog across 14,000 carriageways and 20,000 foot paths.
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