There is quite a bit of housebuilding planned for Liverpool and indeed the entire country but we seem likely to be in for a collection of bad semi-detached designs. Liverpool's history is in terraced housing and buildings, not just the 2 up 2 down but in all sizes and I think we need to return to that, not just in Liverpool but everywhere. In the past compact cities were needed as in most cases you had to walk everywhere, so there was no point building over a large area, now we need the higher densities in order not to take up the green belt.
If you think of high-value executive buildings, we should be thinking about those in the Canning area not widely spaced detached. There is no doubt that things have changed since these were build but most of the changes are easily taken care of within the building, the biggest exception is the car, but we should be aiming to take that within the footprint of the building to.
Small
This small row from London would be good for somewhere like Kensington or Wavertree replacing the terraces that have been demolished. OK, it doesn't have the integral parking spaces but perhaps it is close enough to the city centre not to need it.
Or perhaps this from Harrogate extended a bit.
Medium
Large
A modern take.
Good for Sefton meadows, a long, curved terrace of these?
Squeeze them up a bit. Though a bit new world for some.
A bit boring perhaps but Deganwy.
Conclusion
Part of the plan for the city needs to impose on all housebuilders requirements for efficient land use. That means a smaller footprint for each housing plot, this makes terraces more likely but we also need to add more floors. Even for a simple 2 story house unused loft space is simply not acceptable any more.
Land in Liverpool is relatively cheap, this means that houses tend to sit in bigger plots of land. The houses themselves are no bigger and may be actually smaller as they have to include more outer walls. The space saved can be put aside for future expansion of the population and in the meantime act as temporary parks.
When places like Kent gardens were replaced by Semi-detached and Bungalows a barrier was put on the development of the city centre, a barrier which will cause a lot of grief to break. The land now has too low a density of occupation. It would have been better to rebuild 1 or 2 high-density gardens and leave the space vacated by the others empty for later work.
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