MERSEYSIDE Police and worldwide property group Grosvenor are embroiled in a long-running compensation dispute over land within Liverpool One.

The authority is seeking financial redress from the development giant who funded the city’s new retail complex, the Daily Post can reveal.

Police were forced to agree to a compulsory purchase order (CPO) for an area adjacent to its Canning Place headquarters to help make way for the £920m shopping and leisure hub which opened in 2008, Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year.

Land comprising of roughly a third of an acre, which belonged to the authority, and broadly covers part of the newly-built Paradise Street bus station, was targeted by investment giant Grosvenor.

It resulted in the Duke of Westminster-led company being granted the area, previously an attractive grassed area just off The Strand, as part of a legal ruling.

Now, Merseyside Police Authority is pushing to obtain satisfactory compensation for the loss of the land.

That fight has been ongoing for around five years now, but could finally reach an end just after Christmas.