Consent expected for 342 homes in Speke and Fabric District
Liverpool City Council’s planning committee has been recommended to approve TJ Morris’s 250-unit student scheme off Kempston Street, while a mix of 97 houses and apartments south of the city centre are also primed for permission.
Fabric District student resi
FCH is leading on design. Credit: via planning documents
The discount retailer is seeking permission to deliver 250 student beds on a plot next to TJ Hughes’ Hughes House and Audley House sites, which already have consent for a combined 700 apartments.
Working with developer Caro, TJ Morris wants to redevelop a site bound by Audley Street, Ilford Street, Gildart Street, and Kempston Street in Liverpool’s Fabric District.
At present the site is under-utilised and occupied by a Home Bargains shop and two accompanying warehouses. There is also a Kexgill student block fronting Gildart Street.
Under the proposals tipped for approval by Liverpool City Council, TJ Morris wants to deliver a three- to seven-storey scheme that will see some parts of the existing block demolished.
The warehouses will be knocked down, while the Home Bargains store on Audley Street will be retained and upgraded.
The student block fronting Gildart Street will stay, as will the Kempston Street façade of the former Dart and Shamrock pub.
Designed by Falconer Chester Hall, the student scheme would provide 36 studios and 214 one-bedroom units.
Zerum is advising on planning. To learn more about the plans, search for reference number 23F/2153 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Nearby, TJ Hughes is at work to transform the former Hughes House site into 500 apartments. Last year, Liverpool City Council granted TJ Hughes permission to convert Audley House into 199 homes.
Conleach Road – Speke
All 92 homes would be affordable. Credit: via planning documents
South Liverpool Homes’ proposals focus on a string of development sites along South Parade and Conleach Road to deliver a mix of houses, apartments, and bungalows.
The housing association lodged an application with Liverpool City Council late last year for its plans to build a total of 92 homes in Speke.
Halsall Lloyd Partnership has designed the scheme, which would comprise 57 houses and 35 apartments across two buildings.
More specifically, proposals feature 29 two-, 20 three-, and two four-bedroom houses; 19 one- and 16 two-bedroom apartments; and six two-bedroom bungalows.
Most of the application site is currently empty, except for the former Speke Baptist Church building on Ganworth Road. Separate plans have been submitted to demolish this property.
Each of the bungalows and apartments would be available for affordable rent, while the houses would be offered as either affordable rent, rent to buy, or shared ownership units.
Homes England is providing grant funding for the development.
The project team includes Shape Consulting Engineers, Redmore Environmental, Urban Green, Mode Transport Planning, and Mulberry TMC.
To learn more about the plans, search for application number 23F/2562 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Both schemes are recommended for approval when Liverpool City Council’s planning committee meets next week, subject to the signing of section 106 agreements.
Both of these applications were submitted last year, so that’s at least 7 months to get to committee…worrying.
Meanwhile TJ Morris/Davos are still not on site at 118-126 Duke Street.
By Anonymous
Only just now?
By Anonymous
It’s a little generous to use the term “homes” in the headline. 250 of these units are for student accommodation. Part of the reason for this is no doubt the need for any actual residential units to include 20% affordable housing, be NDSS compliant, 100% M4(2) compliant, more 2-beds and 1-beds requirement, and not forgetting the “tree tax” of £800 for every new apartment created to pay for a street tree (Liverpool should be a rainforest by now). None of this applies to student accommodation, which isn’t considered “residential” and is therefore more financially viable. All credit to LCC for the work they have done to improve the image of the city as a safe place to invest, but sadly the planning department has backed the city into a corner whereby anyone who does want to invest can’t actually make it viable… unless you decide to build student accommodation!
By Tell Me I'm Wrong
Had a look at the full agenda for this meeting, very underwhelming, except for the TJ.Morris scheme there’s nothing worth a mention. Liverpool City Council love telling us that there’s billions of £s of development in the pipeline but where.
There’s no word of Pall Mall, Hemisphere still awaited,Chinatown still mangled in a dispute.
By Anonymous
@ 12.09pm, Manchester builds loads of student accommodation, but they also have loads of developers falling over themselves to build private flats too. Liverpool needs to be more open minded with their height restrictions then developers will feel it`s fiancially worthwhile investing in the city.
By Anonymous
7 Months Liverpool need to worry
By Anonymous
Not sure how much longer the current LCC planners can be allowed to operate as they do now . If the new regime really do seriously want to make a difference and get the city moving then its obvious to all who read and comment within PNW what the problem is problem is so why is nothing being done ?
By Paul M - Woolton
The Fabric District scheme looks really good. Echo what others are saying about timescales though – why is it taking so long for schemes to be approved?
By Mike
Re TJ Morris scheme will the pub next to Kay’s chemist stay – think it was called the ship, later Durty Nellys and used to say ‘those that set to sea in ships have their business in great waters’ . As for more student apartments – not sure they are really needed here and sad that the active frontage on London Road is being lost all the time. The amount of footfall that passes up and down London Road to go to Lime St, to the Royal to the School of Tropical Medicine, Bruntwood scheme – but they dont stop they move quickly through – the market has been dessimated and will be further killed by the Section 106 works which are not being fully communicated. It could be so much more!
By Bob Dawson
You need more than flats and population growth to grow an economy. Could we have some real businesses and not just off shore property developers?
By Anonymous
@ 2.33pm, growth in population brings more business like shops, cafes etc.
Though TJ Morris maybe registered offshore he’s local born and bred , he’s made money due to a business nous and hard work, he’s trying to give back to his city by building on eyesore pieces of land etc. TJ Morris is obviously old enough to know the history of the city and how great it looked once, so give him some credit.
By Anonymous
Zzzzzz yawn
By Anonymous
Excellent news from the very successful Home and Bargain brothers. Good luck, however other comment indicate the lack of business accumen of the Liverpool City Councillors, plant pots, the wheeltappers bottle washers and chimney sweeps. Yes the nutters who have impeded the development in other parts of Liverpool.
Millions of pounds for “cycle tracks”, pennies for potholes and broken pavements……
, crew
By Anonymous
Wow. Some new homes from an RSL so they should actually be affordable. Hopefully homes for scousers rather than recent arrivals from the rotw..
By Dave Downey
@ Dave 9.21am Homes for Scousers, sounds a bit like No Blacks No Irish from years gone by. I knew loads of Scousers when I worked in London and they had been allocated housing by the Boroughs down there. This scheme in Speke will be useful in providing more homes but much more is needed from both public and private providers.
By Anonymous
Those houses in Speke seem to be taking up a huge amount of space, the ones at the top right have generous rear gardens and appear to have 2 parking spaces at the front. I am never in favour of front gardens as they are such a waste but these rear gardens could be reduced and that land could be used for a few more houses. Also for a council that has taken
measures to reduce the use of cars having such ample driveways is an encouragement. The design too is pretty bland ,they look like they were selected from a catalogue of samples.
By Anonymous
We want bungalows with big gardens to roam in please.
And they had better be affordable!
By Anonymous