Alternative matchday hospitality venue proposed for Everton FC supporters

Why hasnt the immediate surrounding area had hotels, bars/restaurants, retail and apartments built round it already, like Wembley? Its mad that nothings been built yet to take full advantage of all the fans and concert goers

If this was Manchester, a detailed Strategic Regeneration Framework would have been drawn up by the council at a very early stage to ensure the full benefit of the new stadium is maximised and the right sort of new development happens.
What we seem to have instead is the cheapest possible attempts to sell beer in on matchdays – big tents and now containers – that for all the spin in applications like this will leave the customary sterile zone round the stadium the rest of the time while pushing away the SMEs that have historically been based there. That and whatever punitive parking restrictions LCC eventually come up with…

Great idea – me and my friends would be very interested in becoming members

This scheme has a major impact on liverpool kayak/ canoe club based on Collingwood wood dock,
It wipes out most of there parking area and the viewing area from that side of the dock will be gone.
That means its highly unlikely national tournaments will be able to take place there again.
A large proportion of the GB team are picked from this club but no one appears to have taken this into account, especially Peel Hodings

Wow, a brand new 52000 seater stadium with no transport connection to the city centre and a new set of railings at the nearest station (15 minutes walk away) gets a 100 seat external bar.. result…. You have to question the whole set up of this development. A fantastic stadium that should be surrounded by facilities and a tram link.. but no… shockingly let down by LLC (again)

Oh come on Liverpool !!!!!!!!! state of the art stadium and this is what’s planned around it tatty containers .

Remember the Councils plans for a multi million pound cruise terminal and we still have the tent 25 years later

This is what Liverpool Labour are doing with our city !!!!nothing

Beer tents and containers? Is this really the future of Liverpool? Its so depressing. I’m glad I moved to Manchester. At least here, they move with the times and are open to change. Liverpool has so much potential but continues to be hindered by narrow minded, uneducated people that the city has been left behind. I agree with the below comments, this is frustrating. People’s mindsets won’t change however. If its not football or the Beatles, they’re not interested in anything else regeneration. The surrounding area should have been developed while the stadium was being built but nothing has been planned. HOW? It’s embarrassing. The council have literally shot themselves in the foot (again). That tent being put up across from the stadium represents what Liverpool’s regeneration is like now, cheap and underwhelming.

Rubbish

So, theyve literally priced their own fans out of their new stadium.

Why does nobody see this for what it is?!

Stunning bet the council rubber stamped that straight away.

Keep it low key nothing too flashy !!!!!!!!zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Seriously they couldn’t build a venue ??
looks like Park Road in Toxteth

Seems like a decent short-term/meanwhile use and set-up of the land pending the larger scale developments others have alluded to (formal catering, leisure, hospitality and hotels) on this site and elsewhere in the area.

I would presume if minded to approve that LCC may grant a temporary consent only, pending a much more acceptable permanent development.

Commenters don’t seem to understand ‘meanwhile uses’. Not everything can be a big flashy and expensive development from day 1. The business may start like this, but hopefully grow to something much more permanent and high quality.

There is lots of space on and around the vacant Terry’s Timber site to build a small neighbourhood with flats, cafes, and bars.This would bring some atmosphere to the area and be a catalyst for more development activity. It takes people with a little bit of vision to comprehend this but it appears the City Council can’t.

I wonder what are Mayor Steve Rotherham thinks about metal containers next to multi million pound stadium

This is an amazing idea, is there a chance to make these numbers bigger as it has the possibility to be huge before and after the game to call in due to transport issues.

Let’s not overlook the stadium is built up to it’s full capacity. Really is 50 plus enough in this day and age. I was involved in the stadium build from day one and. It’s puzzling as to why the footprint wasn’t enlarged. We all will be aware that it’s built on an infilled Dock so unfortunately it’s already at maximum safe working weight capacity.

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Liverpool labour council have not got a clue we are a million miles away from Manchester when it comes to hospitality and transport

The lack of forward planning for this stadium from LCC and their friends at the Combined Authority is painful. No sustainable transport solution, a lack of match day offering. You’d have thought that a spaceship had landed on the docks! A bit less back slapping and a bit more forward planning please.

Just another eyesore, wrapped in a sugar coating.

Zero thought about transport to and from the stadium. The taxi rank is a good walk from the ground, making access for disabled supporters challenging. The walk to Sandhills train station is not short, there is no parking anywhere near, can not believe nobody planned any transport or disabled access.

Liverpool deserves the best cruise terminal in the world looking at restoring the former princess landing stage and land on the bank upto the IoM ferry terminal also vacant land should be developed for cruise liner passengers and the existing tin hut should be redeveloped to look like pier head buildings stone facing as the entrance to the city and historical structures to be replicated in keeping with the Cunard white star building
Full history of the liners and steam ships
Take it away from miserable port of Southampton bring back the North Atlantic passages to New York and Montreal

Brilliant concept it’s going to be a great facility for a wide range of fans

Paul Evans – maybe there’s a reason why the ‘miserable port of Southampton’ is 10 times busier than Liverpool.

shipping containers ? seriously its completey unacceptable ask this , would it even be considerer at Ethiad , Wembley , Spurs etc so why here . LCC are devoid of any common sense they don’t deserve to have such a fantastic new stadium , their contribution has been a chaotic parking scheme and disgraceful Sandhills station .Like most contributors here we are being totally let down and are tired of this constant and continuous amateur shambles .

Oh how I’d love you to be right Paul. Sadly the same economics that dictated airplanes largely replacing liners for transatlantic crossings also dictate why cruise ships to European destinations go (mostly) from Southampton. It would sure save me a long drive if they didn’t.

It’s basic geography.
Liverpool was well located during the Slave Trade. Since then, it has continuously demoted itself to little more than a ferry crossing destination. The most realistic geographical advantage that Liverpool has, although some still refuse to admit, is the close proximity to Manchester. Let the merging of city regions continue.

What a complete and utter joke this plan is. It just shows yet again a complete lack of forward thinking by LCC as to what comes next after the new stadium has been built. The ‘add ons’ like the transport links and the modifications to Sandhills station appear to me to being done ‘on the cheap’ and in a big rush. This new ‘hospitality venue’ appears to be getting done the same way. I will give credit to the applicant and developer for spotting an opportunity and deciding to give it a go and I wish them every success but I’m sorry I really don’t think that shipping containers for hospitality in the near shadow of a new stadium which cost hundreds of millions of pounds to build do anyone in LCC’s planning and regeneration dept any credit at all. If this was in London or indeed anywhere else the stadiums additional hospitality needs and transport links would be the worst. This is Liverpool though and so experience and history says we cannot and should not expect anything better thanks to LCC.

Surely this is on land owned by Peel and therefore will be temporary as we assume there should be some big residential developments there in future as Peel have been granted over £50m to get the infrastructure in for new neighbourhoods, if they can get the developers.

I remember Bolton Wanders stadium getting built around 1997. Included in the construction of the stadium was a train station, hotels, conference facilities, shops, and restaurants. That was almost 30 years ago, and its clear LCC has learnt nothing from previous stadium developments.

Correction to previous comment. For ‘worst’ read the ‘best’.