Bellway tables Carnatic Halls proposals
Formerly halls for University of Liverpool students, the Mossley Hill site is to be redeveloped into 162 homes under plans lodged by the housebuilder.
Bellway and the University of Liverpool have jointly submitted a planning application to transform the 22-acre Carnatic Halls site into housing.
The proposals would see the demolition of the five vacant former student housing blocks and the delivery of 97 three-, four- and five-bedroom houses, along with five apartment blocks comprising 65 one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Vacant building credit on the site could result in there being no affordable provision.
Around half of the site will be redeveloped with half retained as public open space.
Satplan is advising the applicants on planning matters and Astle Planning and Design is the architect.
To learn more about the plans, search for application reference 23F/2123 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
The submission of plans follows the university’s decision to select Bellway as the preferred bidder for the site, which was put up for sale in 2020.
The facility opened in 1964 and was operational through to June 2019, when it was closed as part of the university’s long-term residences strategy, which has seen the opening of new accommodation sites on campus and refurbishment of Greenbank Student Village, collectively bringing more than 4,000 new student beds to the university’s estate.
At least we’ll get some apartments to break up the monotony of seeing a site full of Bellway off-the-shelf suburbia.
By Anonymous
Such a terrible shame about the plans to demolish the existing main building Carnatic Hall, somewhat of a quiet masterpiece hidden within this leafy suburb. Surely worthy of a listing? (Provided that the University or current land owners haven’t roughed it up to the point of no return)
By Anonymous
Losing the main building is a tragedy…. We did a scheme for the sadly long-gone Foundations, which never saw the light of day. Those buildings sat as the centerpiece. We probably had more homes than Bellway as well… time to explore the application
By Pete Swift
Losing the main building is a tragedy…. We did a scheme for the sadly long-gone Foundations, which kept the beautiful building and achieved more homes and greenspace than this.
By Pete Swift
Will this huge redevelopment come with traffic management, new schools, amenities, shops etc…?
By Anonymous
@Anon 3.31,if you look at the planning application it is just residential, but in the local area there are schools and shops not too far away, don’t forget hundreds of students lived there so they must’ve found food and goods from somewhere.
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
By Anonymous
They’ll fly off the shelves: absolutely plum-central for the annual scramble for good high schools – St Margaret’s, St Hilda’s, Calderstones all a stone’s throw away. And not forgetting the lottery of Liverpool College, nor King David’s. Best described as ‘Form an orderly queue.’
By Sceptical
Good, we need more homes but I would really urge them to build some affordable homes as well.
By Anonymous
More homes, no extra GPS, school places or doctors before even mentioning the already terrible traffic at the junction on mossley hill road and rose lane.
By Anonymous
I hope they put in decent pavements and a traffic light at the top of the hill across from the church. It’s a dire place for pedestrians along that corner and will only get more dangerous if traffic increases.
By dandy
Another green space destroyed. Are any of the trees protected? We are losing these spaces from south liverpool and it will end up being overwhelmed from a public service perspective .
By Anon
Won’t be affordable homes, don’t kid yourself, they’ll be 600k plus, 2 car homes. Traffic will be horrendous. Rose Lane is undriveable as it is. The old British legion is being redeveloped into flats too.
By Anonymous
So many complainers on here, this is a brownfield site and not greenbelt. The general area has loads of open space with Calderstones Park and Sefton Park not too far away, plus the grounds at Sudley House. Liverpool once had a city population of 850,000, now it’s down to 500,000 and it needs to be re-populated to sustain the shops and businesses we have. Nowadays UK governments are not proactive and we only build infrastructure , such as light-rail,after places become populated and that needs to change.
By Anonymous
Losing the main building is not a tragedy, it’s an asbestos ridden eyesore that isn’t capable of conversion. I saw the proposed Foundations scheme and it was awful… no wonder they didn’t last long.
By BilboCheeseburger
Local primary and secondary schools already bursting at the seams, where are the children that will move into these family homes supposed to go to school?
By Anonymous