Mersey Docks and Harbour Co gives up on dream of shared soccer stadium - Post

Liverpool Daily Post, 8 Sept 2004
MDHC gives up on dream of shared soccer stadium
By Tony Mcdonough, Daily Post

LIVERPOOL'S Central Docks looks certain to be redeveloped as a residential
site after owner Mersey Docks and Harbour Company said yesterday it had all
but given up hope of it being used for a joint football stadium.

MDHC and English Partnerships, joint owners of the property, are putting
together a master plan for the 90 acres of land which it will submit to the
city council by the end of the year.

Mersey Docks chief executive Peter Jones told the Daily Post that now
Liverpool Football Club's application for a stadium on Stanley Park had
been approved, the joint stadium plan was effectively dead.

He added: "The outline consent for Central Docks has always been
predominantly residential with a bit of retail and a bit of commercial.
Liverpool now has its consent for Stanley Park, so I think a shared stadium
is no longer an issue.

"The only circumstances in which it would become an issue again is if the
Stanley Park scheme is called in by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister."