Brack Construction proposes £18m Liverpool apartments
The local business has applied for permission to build 85 apartments in two six-storey blocks in the city’s Pumpfields district.
Brack Construction, headed up by Edward Brack and based on Blackstock Street, is working with planner Pegasus and architect Studio 256 on plans to redevelop a 0.4-acre site on Paul Street.
The Liverpool project would deliver a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Block A fronting Paul Street would contain 60 flats and Block B fronting Oriel Street would contain 25 homes.
According to a viability appraisal by Aspinall Verdi, the scheme has a gross development value of £18m.
Due to viability constraints, Brack is not proposing any on-site affordable housing.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number 25F/1734 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
The scheme is located within the 75-acre Pumpfields district in Vauxhall, which is the subject of a supplementary planning document drafted by architect Levitt Bernstein and a team made up of Montagu Evans, Arup, and Turner Works.
The team was been commissioned by Liverpool City Council to draft the SPD that will pave the way for investment to create a residential-led mixed-use community featuring homes for up to 10,000 people.
Good luck with that one getting acceptance from the planning committee given the lack of so called affordable housing. 20% affordable housing is far too high a figure, and now there are questions about building heights over 6 floors due to safety checks and this will affect developers making money.
By Anonymous
I’m very pro-development but that visual is embarrassing. Was it done on an etch-o-sketch or via the medium of potato printing?
By YIMBY
Great news. Are there any additional CGI renderings? Hopefully, the design will include arches, red brick, and sandstone dressings, as the image suggests.
By LordLiverpool
Awful visualisation
By Jack Mary Ann
A great design with the arches and the pitched roof, but what is the need for palisade fencing around the apartments? Is there no proposed tree or shrub planting? I hope it isn’t all just concreted for resident parking.
By Anonymous
What a beautiful 5,000m picket fence.
By Anonymous
Good luck eddie! Local lad doing well and keeping a lot of people employed👌🏼
By Michael Smith
Very poor quality design. For comparison look at the torus scheme by Hartley locks just a mile or so away
By George
Wonder if this is the Brack family who used to have the stalls in Greatie my Nana used to speak of? Every week she would say ooh got this off Brack.
By Anon
Worth noting that the concrete yard and pallisade fencing looks like it is outside of the red-line boundary in the planning documents, so I assume this isn’t part of the development site.
By Anonymous
Is that a prison?
By Anonymous
About time things get built in this city as work has gone drier than a bone to much red tape and nimby neighbours getting in the way
By Anonymous
Not the greatest CGI but reckon it will turn out better looking than as shown. It reminds a bit of the new development in Roscoe St which I think blends in ok. Good to see more investment in Vauxhall or Pumpfields as it’s called now, and hopefully this will spread to Scotland Rd which needs a boost as so much idle land is ripe for development.
By Anonymous
I can see what they are trying to do but that is very much going to depend on the overall finish. Hope it’s better than the CGI.
By Anonymous
More badly built boxes. What’s happened to house building in liverpool. Not enough profit i suppose. Where are the kids supposed to play?
By Anonymous
@ Anon 8.59pm, not a shovel in the ground yet but you reckon it’s badly built.
By Anonymous
Brilliant, a local born and bred family Co breathing life back into an area that their family lived and prospered through hard work in a time of decline in our city, now giving back life in our area.
By J.
So Russian box box flats with pointy hat roofs . Architect’s should get a knighthood for their imaginative design along with the labour council 😂
By James
@ James 1.33pm, I think you’re being unfair on architects, especially in this City. It’s our planners who are largely dictating styles and heights of buildings, as they seem to insist that everything fits in with their surroundings, either whether it’s bricks or number of floors. The opportunity to experiment is stifled eg the Davos scheme at 118-126 Duke St had a multi-colured tiled facing at one of the upper levels, but the planners refused it.
By Anonymous