Liverpool City Council is due to grant planning consent to the mixed-use regeneration of a five-acre site next to the city’s Chinatown and in the shadow of its Anglican Cathedral.

Marketed as ‘New Chinatown’, the development will include a 140-bedroom hotel as well as residential apartments and office accommodation.

The project has been recommended for approval at the planning committee meeting on Tuesday 15 December.

Meanwhile staying in Liverpool a new 77-bedroom easyHotel in Liverpool has been given the go-ahead by city planners.

The hotel, the first easyHotel in the north of England, will be located in the former Equity and Law Building in Castle Street - in the centre of Liverpool. The building is currently vacant office space.

easyHotel Liverpool is expected to open spring 2016.

Details: www.easyhotel.com