Major developments across Liverpool were given green light today as the council's planning committee met for the first time following last month's local elections.
New housing, hotels and even film sets were on the agenda, with members having to work through a huge number of plans.
The new proposals add to an almost constant stream of development in the city , with new buildings springing up and older ones being brought back into use.
Here are the biggest plans that got get permission today.
A hotel and sky bar for an empty Liverpool landmark
A city centre landmark, the Martins Bank building on Water Street can now be turned into 215 room hotel after the planning committee approved the plans.
The Grade II* listed building, which opened in 1932, is regarded as one of the most beautiful in the city but has been empty for well over a decade.
The plans will include a sky bar, spa and gym , restaurant and function rooms.
Three previous plans for the building got permission - and then failed to materialise.
But officers at today's meeting said the current proposals interfere the least with the building's heritage and hotel chain Principal has promised maintaining its heritage is a major part of their plan for the building.
Controversial housing on Upper Parliament Street
Rejected once before by the council , plans for 95 apartments on open space on Upper Parliament Street opposite the Women's between finally got the go-ahead this morning - but not everyone was happy.
A number of neighbours objected to the plans, saying they would cut off people in houses behind the site from the main road and the rest of the community .
But despite the concerns, which also focused on a loss of open space in the area, the land just off the main road will be built on for the first time since derelict terraced housing on the site was pulled down in the aftermath of the Toxteth Riots.
More houses in the Welsh Streets
The transformation of the Welsh Streets has been lauded across the country as an example of community-led regeneration.
And now 52 more homes are set to join the original terraced houses on four streets in the area.
Currently there are gaps on the streets, currently used as open space, which build-for-rent developer Placefirst now has permission to build on.
The homes on Wynnstay, Voelas, Rhiwlas and South Streets are set to cater for families, with developers promising they will mark the next phase of the renaissance of the Welsh Streets.
And new film sets in Childwall
Hollyoaks production company Lime Productions shoot five episodes of the soap a week at their Childwall set - and now have approval to expand their operations on their current site on Childwall Abbey Road.
That approval came despite fierce opposition from Childwall Abbey School, which backs on to the site.
Chair of governors Paul Rowlandson said independent consultants employed by the school said the new development would worsen a problem with drainage at the school - and put it at risk of flooding in extreme weather.
But the planning committee sided with its own experts, who said that the plans wouldn't worsen existing problems with waterlogging and draining in the area, and gave the plans the green light.
