{"id":1091,"date":"2025-03-13T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/northern-arc-liverpool-and-manchester-set-to-unite-to-rival-oxbridge-corridor\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:17:47","slug":"northern-arc-liverpool-and-manchester-set-to-unite-to-rival-oxbridge-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/northern-arc-liverpool-and-manchester-set-to-unite-to-rival-oxbridge-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Arc: Liverpool and Manchester set to unite to rival Oxbridge corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A joined-up \u201cNorthern Arc\u201d spanning from the River Mersey to the Pennines could drive UK economic growth over the next decade, say Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.<\/h2>\n

Their vision\u2014underpinned by a new Liverpool-Manchester railway\u2014seeks to match the success of the Oxford-Cambridge<\/a> Arc in attracting investment, fostering innovation and boosting productivity.<\/p>\n

The Northern Arc already has two investment zones, a population of 5.4 million and produces an annual gross value added (GVA) of \u00a3150 billion plus \u00a323.5 billion in exports. Advocates believe that a new Liverpool-Manchester railway would add \u00a37 billion GVA to the UK economy, facilitate 300,000 new homes over 20 years, and create more than 40,000 high-quality jobs by 2050.<\/p>\n

Burnham noted that combined city-region investment schemes\u2014including Old Trafford\u2019s sports-led regeneration and Greater Manchester\u2019s Atom Valley\u2014are set to benefit from joined-up planning, delivering more ambitious outcomes together than in isolation. He called the railway a \u201ccrucial missing link\u201d in the UK\u2019s infrastructure plan, arguing the North West\u2019s untapped potential could match that of the Oxbridge corridor.<\/p>\n

Rotheram emphasised that, in the Liverpool City Region alone, major projects like the \u00a3550 million Health Innovation Liverpool Campus and expanding Sci-Tech Daresbury are already powering growth in life sciences, advanced manufacturing and low-carbon technologies. Linking these hubs with Greater Manchester and beyond would transform the North West \u201cinto a global powerhouse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The city-regions are collaborating with independent economists and local authorities to quantify the benefits of this proposed supercluster, building on the Oxford-Cambridge model. Greater Manchester\u2019s ten-year plan aims to secure \u00a31 billion of annual investment over the next decade. Meanwhile, Liverpool\u2019s regeneration of Central Station, valued at \u00a32.5 billion, could open new commercial possibilities, complemented by further housing and urban renewal spurred by Everton FC\u2019s new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock.<\/p>\n

Supporters argue that, with sufficient government backing, these developments could inject the North West with renewed dynamism, accelerate national growth, and help shift the UK\u2019s economic centre of gravity away from the South.<\/p>\n

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A joined-up \u201cNorthern Arc\u201d spanning from the River Mersey to the Pennines could drive UK economic growth over the next decade, say Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. Their vision\u2014underpinned by a new Liverpool-Manchester railway\u2014seeks to match the success of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc in attracting investment, fostering innovation and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 16:24:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}