Davos nudges skyline-altering Liverpool masterplan towards submission

I am sure like many others i am hoping this moves forward at pace and that LCC don’t hinder what is a fantastic news story for our city

Sooner this all starts happening the better…Any news on the plans for the new cruise terminal and proposed hotels at Princes Dock? Like getting blood out of a stone with Peel.

Please please LCC don’t allow this ship to sink also. Leave it alone

Fair play to everyone involved if it actually happens but I’m Skeptical. Ambition is not a word you associate with Liverpool the planning agenda is a joke and has been for years.

The council wont budge they will take at least 5 yrs to even look at it and 15 public consultations hoping the developer to eventually walk away.

Labour don’t build or develop in Liverpool

Echoing Paul’s comment below. Let’s hope this is not another false dawn with Liverpool planners stymieing tall buildings on the waterfront

Can LCC ever deliver any positive news for once. Their outlook is so dark.

A great scheme. It just needs the Combined Authority now to use their devolved funding to support the necessary infrastructure costs.

A local man who made his fortune through hard work and business acumen, he is aware of Liverpool’s heyday and it’s former profile. This is an opportunity that has to be grasped and give the city it’s mojo back and be a catalyst for further investment here.

Now the Tories are irrelevant there really are no more excuses. Labour council has been responsible for a decade of stagnation it’s time to act like a serious city now. The news yesterday about the Chinese company moving it HQ was positive.

Anonymous at 12.24pm Peel don’t actually build anything these days – they get planning and sell the land its their developers that build and will update. They just go to the opening and pretend they did it! Mr Bennett – Liverpool developers do have ambition – sadly LCC are so disjointed and siloed as echoed at the developers conference last year – its just a talking shop and none of them do anything – they have another in Feb. Lots of the developers were putting hands up saying we have waited X months, we are trying to this can we speak after the panel. Its shocking. If you look how many LCRCA massive projects have gone back circa 2 years including Mersey Tidal – it makes you truly wonder what is going on,

Agree with the other comments, lets get the spades in the ground. Wonder why the 28 storey pathfinder tower hasn’t been approved at lightning speed? LCC has a trickle of applications so what’s the delay?

All part of the process. Looking forward to the final plans.

I know the Liverpool Manchester comparisons can get boring but you just need to go on this website to see how far behind Liverpool are. I don’t sense the urgency to try and close the gap this project needs to be fastracked.

LCC last year had fleshed out the numbers for the skyline altering project. Somehow I get the feeling the barriers and boundaries are already starting to emerge. This will be a fantastic project as long as it is approved. That’s where the project stalls. Wake up LCC and stop betraying the people of this once great City.

The Head of Planning and the planning team are all employed by the city council. The city council has a Chief Executive who must oversee the workings of each department and must surely know the planning department is failing the city with the long drawn out processes it uses to process applications.

It will pass as long as it has no car parking facilities and lots of cycle racks

This is essential for a project of its size, take heart from it not negativity. These are serious players. Also there’s a demolition notice on the site of the 28 storey tower.

From the announcement of this scheme the Developers have repeatedly stated that they have been in discussions with LCC.
Therefore you would expect that any issues between the two have been resolved prior to a planning application. I am sure the developers would not have submitted plans for a sixty storey building without knowing LCC are on board.
I expect this development to be approved especially as LCC know the whole region and its Developers are watching this development intently.

But please don’t copy our dull identikit MCR towers… set your sights higher 🙂

Will it look as cheap and bland as Princess Dock?

This would be a complete game changer for Liverpool. I think it’s normal not to get your hopes up with any developments in Liverpool knowing how certain people within LCC like to put meaningless obstacles in the way of ambitious plans.
It’s about time these people start getting challenged and seeing a push back on their authority and putting more power in the hands of forward thinking people.
I read a while back that someone knew of the people designing the second and third tallest buildings which were said to be 55 and if I remember correctly 48 storeys or thereabouts. Going off the above picture the tallest building looks to be around 70 storeys. That would be incredible. There’s no reason for this whole development not to push through and no reason why several towers can’t be granted permission in close succession. We’ve seen in other cities how 3 or 4 tall buildings can go up at the same time so no need for different stages where one tower gets built then wait another 3 or 4 years for the next tower to get built. LCC need to up their game and allow planning permission for this ASAP. The Pathfinder Tower would be a great start but that must happen soon followed quickly with the taller elements. To be fair I have heard very positive noises coming from LCC which is massively welcome. GET IT BUILT.

Sounds fantastic this is just what Liverpool needs to compete with Manchester.

There really can’t be any excuses from LCC if this project is not allowed to go ahead at speed. The groups behind it are really well known in the city and yes they do produce the goods whether it is buildings or a nationally known shopping chain. They also clearly believe in the city and obviously want what is best for the city, something that at times I doubt if LCC want for our fine city and our home. Lets just get the project built and at the same time lets get building on the former Norton’s site at the bottom of Upper Parliament Street. Put together they will be great gateways to the northern and southern ends of our amazing waterfront. Less talking and more doing please LCC.

Unfortunately this will never happen, look at all the proposed construction developments that have been in the papers in the last two to five years. How many have been executed? It’s a false economy, no one wants to invest here . I mean, the new Baltic train line has been put back until 2029 😂. Even though government money was put aside for it. Has it run out already, before it even started? Why all the delays ?

Yes we always compare Liverpool and Manchester, but just look what happens there . Build build build. The Manchester economy is booming where as Liverpool is not. We need to wake up. Look at that eye sore of an Elliott site , sat abandoned for how many years ? Then just up the road another abandoned construction site. Investors don’t want to see that. Why would they throw money into a half built city

Get it done, hopefully the council don’t get too involved!

What about gifting Infinity Towers project on Leeds St, it’s an eyesore

More fantasy Island events

This is great news but every year that goes by without the new cruise terminal is actually costing Liverpool / buisness millions in lost revenue per week how can the Labour council not see this it’s pivotal to the growth of the city imagine 2 megaships a day with 8 to 10 thousand passengers all getting of to spend some money yes and that’s daily I just don’t understand the lack of urgency in building this .
Shocking .

60 storied buildings. What happens incase of fires no fire equipment can go that high

Why would you want to detract from Liverpools World famous waterfront with these buildings.? Ordinary folk can’t afford to live, eat or socialise there as it is, the costs of things as they are. These will only make the developer richer

For those who blame the council for the lack of progress in developing areas it’s worth remembering it’s the council who face the criticism when they’re & have been in the past numerous stalled projects within the city

Manhattan on the Mersey great news !

Brilliant news for my city of Liverpool

Hope this happens

Don’t be like the ones in Manchester copy n paste towers that look truly awful …Am from Manchester

Manchester does while Liverpool hesitates, good job we had risk takers and visionaries when the Liver Building etc went up.
TJ Morris has the finances,he will deliver.

T J MORRIS does have the finances but doe LCC have the guts to move into the 21st century

Will never happen in a socialist city unfortunately.

@ January 31, 3.43pm, Marg you need to take your blinkers off and realise the Liverpool socialist paradise idea won’t cut it anymore, we have to think positively and get the city looking like it’s somewhere to invest and reside in.

I think this lacks ambition – it would be more profitable to have 10-15 40+ storey towers in this location. Manchester is leaving Liverpool in the shade.

No doubt the planning committee will be asking why no BARGAIN HOMES. But this tower is the wrong location for affordable housing.

@ Speculator, nothing in the article mentions affordable housing, why not let Davos get on with it and give a boost to our city. We have tons of land elsewhere in the city to build affordable housing, which as we know takes different forms like shared ownership etc.

Look at a major project like Baltic station – joke

I hope the design quality improves because the latest towers look rough and have ruined that bit of the waterfront

LCC wait with bated breath.

Why is it taking so long for planning to approve the first phase 28 storey building.
They can’t have much to do as there’s hardly any major planning applications coming in, all there are is household applications, tree works, street information hubs, and HMO’s, it must be like the IT Crowd down there the speed they seem to work at.