Bellway targets 2028 completion for £65m Carnatic Park
Work is due to start imminently on demolishing the University of Liverpool’s vacant Carnatic Halls, with the housebuilder lined up to deliver 65 apartments and 78 houses on the Mossley Road site.
Bellway’s £65m plans for the 22-acre site, which earned a vote to approve by Liverpool City councillors in June, include retaining more than half of the area for open space. The remaining nine acres will be used for development.
The flats will be spread out across five three- and four-storey apartment blocks. There will be 15 one-bedroom residences and 50 two-bedroom ones. Of the one-bedroom flats, eight will be designated as affordable.
When it comes to the houses, there will be 18 three-bedroom properties, 47 with four, and 13 with five.
The first homes are expected to go up for sale late summer 2026. Residents would be able to move in from the following spring.
Housetypes at Carnatic Park will include nods to Tudor architecture. Credit: via Philosophy PR
David Williams, managing director for Bellway in the North West, said: “A hugely prestigious scheme, this is a flagship development in one of the most desirable areas of Liverpool and we have thought long and hard about every element from the landscaping and public open space plan to the elevational treatments of the different house types and the materials used in both the external and internal specification.”
He added: “Landscaping has been a key consideration and forms a large part of the plans. We are delighted to be opening up the site and introducing new public walkways and areas of public open green space that were not previously accessible.
“We will also retain the existing sandstone walls and all of the mature trees, which will give a beautifully well-established feel to the new development and ensure it blends perfectly in the conservation area.”
Astle Planning and Design drew up the layout for the project, with Satplan providing planning guidance. To learn more about the application, search using reference 23F/2123 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
This most definitely should be a high quality residential area.. but no more students towers in the city please
By Anonymous
Interesting that Bellway have decided to go down a mock tudor route. I felt that the sandstone aesthetic of the Elan scheme opposite worked well in the area but less convinced by Bellways. Belongs back in the 1970s!
By Jeremy Pieface
Bellway homes take years to finish projects.. neglect simple things like putting in footpaths and tarmac on the roads.. let’s see how long this takes
By Anonymous
Jeremy… You’re right.. the sandstone wall are a beautiful and notable feature of the area and it would be more in keeping to work with that.
By Anonymous
Tudorisation – Back to the 80’s !
By Grimly Fiendish
I agree with Mr Pieface. Truly awful design
By Anonymous
Terrible mock tudor designs. How does this garbage get planning permission. Agree that the new scheme opposite is much better thought through
By Anonymous
Form an orderly queue, because that is Ground Zero for access to the best of south Liverpool’s schools. It’ll be one of Bellway’s most profitable developments, that much is certain.
By Anonymous
These designs should suit this leafy, suburban setting, meanwhile the students by and large would much prefer being nearer the city centre in mid or high-rise blocks, and let’s face it we’ve got plenty of wasteland to build them on. The area around the Baltic could benefit from some student high-rises maybe on the old Norton site, or in the Pumpfields area, or what about some mid-rise near Moorfields where the land has been a vacant eyesore for decades.
By Anonymous
Awful generic design – come on Bellway, up your game. Generic PR quote from the MD – `we have thought long and hard about every element from the landscaping and public open space plan to the elevational treatments of the different house types’ Really??
By Jack Mary Ann
My view is that these are shameful designs for such a fantastic site, Is it a 1990’s revival plan by Bellway with the mock tudor housetypes and mock chi..men..eys .
By Ann Field
Generic housebuilder churns out generic housing shocker.
The problem we have with delivering decent new housing schemes of any significant size is that we are reliant on major housebuilders to build them. They’ve got a script and they’re going to stick to it. No ideas, no innovation, and not enough reason for them to do any different. Depressing stuff.
By Green Belt Ben