Liverpool developer behind jobs stalled by founder’s arrest in talks to hand them to rival

By Tom Lowe2020-02-28T06:00:00

Work has stopped on Liverpool and Manchester towers after founder’s arrest

Elliot Group is speaking to a rival developer about taking over all three of its stalled tower schemes in Manchester and Liverpool after conceding defeat over plans to raise alternative funding itself to keep them afloat.

Jobs totalling a project value of £420m ground to a halt when investors pulled out following the arrest of the Liverpool-based developer’s founder Elliot Lawless just before Christmas as part of a fraud probe.

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