Davos, Beetham get ball rolling on £1bn Liverpool tower cluster
Early stage plans for a 27-storey tower featuring 262 apartments have been submitted to Liverpool City Council.
The scheme will be the first to be delivered as part of a plan to develop several tall buildings on and around the King Edward Triangle.
Davos Property Developments, the development arm of TJ Morris, intends to lodge a full planning application for the development in the coming weeks.
The scheme – located at 12 – 14 Waterloo Road, which was previously occupied by a Greek restaurant called Bacchus Taverna – is being billed as a “pathfinder development” that will test the waters for what is possible across the site that Davos is developing out with Beetham Group.
The wider seven-acre masterplan, due to be made public later this year, the ambition to deliver the city’s tallest tower baked into it.
The highest building in the cluster would overtake West Tower, a Beetham development, as Liverpool’s loftiest.
The site, the majority of which was acquired from Peel Waters last year, is earmarked in city policy as being suitable to accommodate buildings of scale, including one in excess of 60 storeys.
Pegasus is advising Davos on planning matters relating to the pathfinder tower while Brock Carmichael is leading on design.
Darren Muir, planning director at Pegasus Group, said: “We are moving at pace in close collaboration with Liverpool council’s officers and this submission fires the starting gun on the formal planning process.
“We are committed to ensuring an exemplar application and this screening report is the first key step in that process. When we conclude the wider masterplan for the site we will submit a full EIA alongside the planning application.”
Brilliant news!!! Lets just hope that there are no hold ups in the LCC planning department so that what is hoped will be the first in the cluster can be built. No more dreaming lets just get it done and dusted!!!
By Brendan R
This is the council’s litmus test. Everyone’s watching. Do they back local talent with genuine ambition for their home town or will they smother them in red tape?
By More Anonymous than the others
27 storeys? In Liverpool? That’s huge therefore it will never happen.
By Bungalow Bill
A game changer for Liverpool in an area mostly with run down buildings or industrial sheds in an inappropriate setting.
By Anonymous
Great news. I just wish they would be more ambitious like developers in Manchester.
By Anonymous
Sooner the better,
By Jeff
So even more off the water front being violated and ruined with more eyesore concrete blocks, which also ruins &obstructs the lovely scenery when we like too look across to the coastline &Welsh mountains just becoming a replica of Manchester or try2 be another new York allowing people to take the once unique character from this city &make it a duplicate to every other city 🤔
By John
Great news! Let’s how this development moves a decent pace and that we can start seeing this land developing in the coming months/years. Don’t hold out much hope for Liverpool city council and it’s planning department though.
By Djsjtj
@ John 11.04pm, come on John if you want to view the Welsh Mountains they are perfectly visible at Crosby and Otterspool, meanwhile one of the reasons you can’t see them at the Pierhead is the height of the Liver Building so would you like to see that removed.
Liverpool needs to stop living on relics of the past and accept that we need to be more open minded about attracting good jobs and growing our population.
By Anonymous
It’s not a community development, it turns a friendly city into an isolated one where people don’t talk to each other , it’s ego of a granduer scale, oh and don’t forget prices for starting out of your window where no one hears you and the cost of Service charges and maintenance and parking costs.
By Anonymous
@ By John a few towers doesn’t suddenly turn Liverpool in to New York!, but what it does do is create more homes, jobs, regeneration and encourages more development in what is a very rundown area. The city needs more development and jobs. This will be a huge step for Liverpool and mustn’t be held back or watered down.
By GetItBuilt!
Lets see if Labour will run Liverpool like they are currently running the country . Hold my breath
By Anonymous
Don’t see this getting passed by the famous LCC with their disastrous decision making. Or it may sadly be drastically reduced in height. We can only hope they leave it alone.
By Anonymous
Awful glass boxes in the sky that no one will buy. Luckily even if they get the go ahead it will be many years before anything happens
By Tom
Amazing that some posters come on here full of negativity towards almost any forward looking development. We get the regular “Liverpool what a lovely looking city that we need to preserve”, I would say take a walk around Granby, especially Ducie St, and see the devastation, walk up Scotland Rd and see acres of wasteland and weeds plus rotting hoardings of abandoned sites, but when someone local invests his money back into his home city there is ridicule from people who haven’t got the first idea how to regenerate this city.
By Anonymous
Get it all built asap Mr Morris!!! 😂 🏙️
By Anonymous
I didn’t know there were that many footballers in Liverpool
By Tannoy
This is great news. The site is an ugly underutlised 70’s industrial estate and is a logical place to expand the tall building profile of the city. For all the nay-sayers we need development to take place asap as Liverpool lags chronically behind. Next step would be some grade A office space so that we can start to get a look in on some of the regional office requirements that always miss out on. This obviously hinges on rents being in the ascendant so that development becomes more viable. Fingers crossed the Council act in a positive pro-development way on this one and that the detailing on the buildings is of high enough quality to set a new tone.
By Baltic Boy
Only if we had a waterfront here in Manchester because ours look awful compared to what Liverpool are going to look like. Its just jealousy.
By Anonymous
@Tannoy Champion ones
By SPQL
Oh anonymous 2.48 …celebrate this for what it is. I really don’t think Manchester is jealous of this 😂
By Anonymous
It’s offices we need and the jobs to go with them. Admittedly the place is a mess and any development should be welcomed but we need to do it the right way. The blueprint has been shown elsewhere, we need to stop blocking progress and follow it.
By Anonymous
Looking forward to seeing detailed plans and renders. Not keen on the current crop of bland red brick new builds in Liverpool, hopefully this will be a bit more sleek and modern fitting of a business district.
By Anon
They could build a series of tents and it would improve this site. Anything is better than nothing so let’s build anything.
By Anonymous
There’s more to Liverpool than buildings
By Michael