Editing Halewood (section)

===Regeneration efforts===
Following significant regeneration efforts since 2004, Halewood has turned a corner. Crime has reduced, the performance of local schools has drastically improved (with Halewood Centre for Learning topping the local authority league tables). New housing developments have created high quality housing which has resulted in an influx of professionals. The old sports centre, Bridgefield Forum, has been knocked down and replaced with the state of the art Halewood Leisure Centre. Other housing communities such as Okell Drive and surrounding areas and housing close to the original Halewood village are also thriving. Halewood's largest employer is the [[Jaguar Land Rover]] factory. In 2012 Halewood's old Raven Court shopping centre was replaced with a 7 million pound shopping centre with new shops including Aldi, Iceland, Card Factory, Tesco Express, Barnardos, Ladbrokes and a newsagent.

Halewood Park Triangle is Halewood's main public park, securing Green Flag Award in 2011. Consisting largely of mature woodland, with ponds, meadow habitat and heathland remnants, the park is a designated Local Wildlife Site. Its layout is closely linked to its railway history. It formed part of the Liverpool Loop Line and the Transpennine Trail now follows the route leading southwards to Halewood Doorstep Green.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/wood/?woodId=27613&woodName=halewood-park|title=Halewood Park {{!}} Explore woods {{!}} The Woodland Trust|website=www.woodlandtrust.org.uk|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref>

On the abolition of the [[administrative county]] of Lancashire in 1974, the urban district was also abolished and its former area was transferred to Merseyside to be combined with that of other districts to form the present-day [[metropolitan borough]] of [[Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley|Knowsley]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cross|first=Charles|date=July 1973|title=The Local Government Act 1972|journal=Anglo-American Law Review|volume=2|issue=3|pages=351–362|doi=10.1177/147377957300200305|s2cid=167576090 |issn=0308-6569}}</ref> The Knowsley borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of, [[Huyton with Roby Urban District|Huyton-with-Roby Urban District]], [[Kirkby Urban District]] and [[Prescot Urban District]], along with most of [[Whiston Rural District]] (of which Halewood was part) and a small part of [[West Lancashire Rural District]], all from the [[Administrative counties of England|administrative county]] of [[Lancashire]].

The Garston and Halewood [[United Kingdom constituencies|constituency]] was created in 2010 represented in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|UK Parliament]] since 2010 by [[Maria Eagle]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].