ACC Liverpool plans 370-seat increase
The arena has shared its ambitions to create a ‘super suite’ and increase its capacity, filing a variation to premises licence application with the city council.
The 11,000-capacity ACC Liverpool would receive an additional 372 seats under the proposals. These would be made feasible by reconfiguring existing walkways within the M&S Bank Arena bowl itself. New accessible viewing bays would also be added to the D-end of the arena, according to the application.
Regarding the super suite, this has been billed as a ‘premium VIP hospitality box’ by the arena and would be made through the conversion of an existing bar area. The venue also has requested permission to turn a currently unused space on its premises into a back-of-house bar and cloakroom. A toilet area would also get a glow up, undergoing remodelling to increase the number of toilets in the space.
Also proposed: the conversion and upgrade of existing storage rooms so they can become multi-use spaces. This would ensure that they could transition to bar areas if needed.
The licence application follows from the arena launching a teaser for its “next chapter”. The short video, which shows an “X” appearing on various places on the area, states that a new name and four stages are coming soon.
Feedback on the licence application for the Kings Dock venue is due by 9 March to Liverpool City Council.
sounds good to me
By marykimber
If Liverpool had ambition they would knock it down and build a bigger complex. Manchester now has two 20,000 capacity arenas why is everything in Liverpool built too small.
By Peter
An 11,000 capacity arena is not attracting most of the global acts anymore, we need something bigger.
By Anonymous
Best venue in the north west is the philharmonic hall and locality anyway.
By Anonymous
Good, but modest start. Rather than knock it down (as suggested below), raise the roof and add a whole new tier around the top of the bowl to add substantial capacity, and competition to the market.
Presumably the down time would be lower and revenue protection maximised from a complete demolition and rebuild.
By DenseCity
Everton Stadium along with Anfield will host concerts now. The arena battle has been lost to Manchester to be honest.
By Tim
The arena is to small need to build a new one with bigger capacity
By Jay
Need to double it sizes it is to small we need a 25 thousand seater arena
By Jason
The work has already taken place. Catch up!
By Ice Monster.
@ DenseCity, I agree with raising the roof and getting more tiers in but would that achieve the required capacity. I suspect the reason the current arena is low is because of the Liverpool height police. I believe too that the Everton Stadium could have been higher and achieved at least a 55,000 capacity but it was height restricted.
By Anonymous