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Downturn halts Liverpool stadium

Leon Walker, Regeneration & Renewal, 5 September 2008

It was a project meant to turn around the fortunes of both a rundown area of Merseyside and ambitious Liverpool Football Club. But now the credit crunch has put the shackles on the club's planned new stadium.

Construction of the new 60,000-seat stadium at Stanley Park and its associated regeneration scheme has halted, with the club this week blaming the lack of liquidity in the financial markets...

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