Liverpool City Council plan to invest an extra £100 million in public services.
The local authority’s proposed budget will see around £90M provided to demand-led services such as adult social care, children’s services and homelessness.
A further £7.5M is set to be ringfenced for use on parks, green spaces and maintaining street cleaning, maintenance of grass verges and rubbish removal.
If approved, it will see over 100 new jobs and apprenticeships created for local young people with 26 new barrow walkers and street washers to tackle grotspots.
All of the city’s play parks will also see their equipment replaced as part of plans to bring the areas up to ‘Green Flag’ standards.
A newly-created Community Renewal Fund will see nearly £4M committed over the next two years is set to be created to allow councillors to work with local groups on tackling deprivation and other issues in theirl wards.
The council is to spend a total of £231M on ‘capital’ infrastructure projects in 2026/27, including investment in roads, safer and greener streets, school buildings, social care and health facilities, improving leisure facilities and more energy efficient buildings.
The government has announced a three-year settlement for councils which will see Liverpool move up to sixth for amount spent per head of population by 2029.
Council chiefs will receive an additional £186M in funding between now and 2029, a rise of just over 25 per cent, with £69M of it arriving in the 2026/27 financial year.
A proposed council tax rise of just under 5% is proposed in line with most other local authorties in England ahead of a budget meeting on Wednesday (March 4).
Council leader Liam Robinson, said: “We now have a Government that is willing to listen to listen to councils and take account of the needs of big cities such as Liverpool when allocating funding.
“As a result of this, we have received the best settlement for 15 years and, although it won’t replace the funding we lost during the austerity years, it enables us to make choices about where to make investments.
“We are choosing to rebuild services in our communities, which will mean cleaner streets, better parks and green spaces, and improved leisure and youth facilities.
“Because we have received a three year settlement, we are able to plan for the future with certainty, enable us to commit to investments that will make a visible and positive difference in communities over the coming years.”