Parking restrictions around Everton’s new stadium have been suspended.
Liverpool City Council originally imposed the 365-day exclusion zone which covered the area outside Bramley-Moore Dock before last month’s first test event.
The Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) was met with fierce backlash from local businesses and residents due to the unrelenting nature of the scheme.
However the local authority confirmed on Monday that it was reviewing the plan which came just 24 hours after a second test event was held on the waterfront.
A temporary cessation is set to be lifted in August, when the Blues begin their first season at their future home and by which point the existing measures will be refined.
Council leader Liam Robinson said: “The new stadium has created new challenges on parking in this part of the city, adding to the pressures from commuters, and the changing needs of a growing area for business. It’s important we get these measures right.
“Since the consultation launched last month we’ve had a lot of feedback. The Council has listened carefully. The legal basis for the new restrictions enables us to make amendments in the light of evidence and experience.
“We will now take the time between now and the start of the new football season to get the balance of new measures right, and in the meantime suspend the measures in the parts of the zone of most concern to local businesses.
“There is still the year-round issue of commuter parking affecting our residential areas with the zone, so it makes absolute sense for the measures to continue there.
“We are also working closely with colleagues at the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority on their plans for public transport provision and we are in in active dialogue with them and Everton FC to ensure changes and improvements are made.”