A developer has agreed to pay money which helps the community after Liverpool City Council threatened to wind up the company.
The Mount Group are behind the Browside scheme in Everton. Building work stalled on the site last year but has now resumed. In September the ECHO reported the Mount Group still owed a Section 106 payment to the council worth £60,000.
The Mount Group later paid £20,000, owing the local authority £40,000. Section 106 payments typically require developers to pay money to the local authority which is used to benefit the immediate community.
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The cash is typically spent on creating more public space, road improvements, cycling infrastructure or increasing education or health services. It has now emerged that the Mount Group has agreed to pay the outstanding £40,000 to the council after the local authority said they would bring an action wind the company up over the outstanding money.
A spokesman for the council said: "The Mount Group agreed a payment plan after the local authority was set to wind up the company for non-payment of Section 106 fees."
A spokesman for the Mount Group said: "We now have paid the balance.
"We had a disagreement over the commencement date on site. The section 106 money is due 18 months from commencement on site. We then agreed a payment plan."
Kevin Robinson Hale who is standing as a Green Party candidate in next year's local government elections said: "It's a disgrace that it took years to finally invoice the developer for money which would help on the city's poorest communities.
"The Mount Group are now paying up after the council has forced them to. The whole saga leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth."
In the past Mr Robinson Hale has argued that there are too many stalled sites in north Liverpool, which has stopped deprived communities from receiving much needed S106 money.
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