LIVERPOOL City Council is looking to create a ‘Football Match Parking Zone’ around Everton Football Club’s new stadium, at Bramley-Moore Dock.
A report to the Council’s Cabinet next Tuesday:- 8 October 2024 is recommending a raft of new measures surrounding the 52,888 seater stadium, similar to what is in place around Goodison Park and Anfield.
The focus of the proposed parking zone covers the area within a 30-minute walk of Everton Stadium, which will encompass the surrounding Ten Streets district and into the City centre.
A series of recommendations, which have been subject to a public consultation, includes:-
• New resident parking areas
• New taxi ranks
• New match day bus stands
• New parking restrictions
• New hours of operation for existing parking zones for the Great Homer Street area
• New hours of operation for existing parking zones for the Ten Streets and Love Lane areas
• New industrial parking zone south of Boundary Street
• New industrial parking zone north of Boundary Street
The overall aim of the new Parking Zone is to reduce congestion, improve air quality, safety and journey times to and from the stadium. The proposals have also been designed to complement the planned modernisation of parking across the City centre.
If approved by Cabinet, the Council’s Highways and Transportation team will begin the process of installing new signage towards the end of the year. Residents and surrounding businesses will also be invited to apply for the relevant parking permits.
Scheduled to open for the 2025/26 season, the Everton Stadium will be subject to a number of test events at the start of next year.
Already selected as a venue for the UEFA European Championships in 2028 the new venue, which is serviced by the City’s historic “Dock Road”, will also be capable of hosting major non-footballing events.
Liverpool City Council has invested more than £20m in the highways infrastructure around Bramley-Moore Dock, including a permanent segregated cycle lane running from the city centre up to Liverpool’s northern border at Bootle in Sefton, which passes right in front of the new stadium.
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is also working with Merseyrail, Network Rail and Everton FC on the development of a new crowd management zone and an additional entrance at Sandhills station. The aim is to primarily support fans and event goers accessing public transport on their way to and from the new stadium, with works on the 1st phase due to start on site imminently.
Councillor Dan Barrington, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport and Connectivity, said:- “Everton Stadium is going to be transformational especially for the surrounding Ten Streets district and the wider Kirkdale community. As well as the economic benefit, the vast volume of people the stadium will attract – and how they arrive and depart – needs to be carefully managed. The North Docks area has never had to cope with such large numbers of people in such concentrated time periods, but fortunately the City has the experience and knowledge thanks to Goodison Park and Anfield. By creating this new match day parking zone, we’ll be looking to adopt and incorporate those controls which so effectively move tens of thousands on a weekly basis. Bramley-Moore Dock is also a unique location given its very close proximity to the City centre and the fact the surrounding transport infrastructure is well developed. There’s more to be done but all the partners are talking to make those improvements. We’ll also be looking to encourage as many active travel options as possible for those attending the games or other events there, which is a win-win for everyone in terms of managing congestion and air quality and promoting healthy habits. There’s lots of residents and businesses, as well as Everton fans, who will be affected by these proposals and thanks to their feedback we’ve been able to formulate a plan which aims to accommodate their needs.”
