THE owner of Liverpool’s Neptune Theatre has vowed to return it to its “all-singing and dancing” former glory.

Hanover Estates says it will replace all the building’s windows and spruce up the brick façade.

The news comes after Hanover and Liverpool city council ended a four-year deadlock over how much rent the council should pay to lease the building.

It will be music to the ears of the city’s amateur theatre groups who lost their much-loved home when it closed.

The venue was mothballed in 2005, needing massive refurbishment. Then the landlord and tenant fell out over the rent.

Hanover reportedly wanted to up the tenancy from £6,000 a year to nearer £60,000.

But, after a prolonged arbitration, the two sides agreed a “mutually acceptable” figure.

Last week, senior Liverpool councillors voted to sign a new five-year tenancy.

They also said there was a “six figure-sum” available to fix up the inside of the building, which first opened in 1913.

Now Hanover has promised to plough in a similar amount of cash to breathe new life into the Grade-II-listed Hanover Street theatre.

David Ramsey, Hanover’s managing director, said: “It’s in the public interest to have the external works done and make it all-singing and dancing.

“The windows around the theatre are in need of refurbishment, they’re pretty shot. We’re also going to do up the outside generally with some cleaning.”