Davos teases resi towers, hotel for former Liverpool scrap metal site

Where would this city be without Tom Morris? The man should be carried down Castle Street on the shoulders of a grateful public.

“You too could live in a cheaply built flat with a huge ‘management charge’ in a plot surrounded by warehouses, industry, and busy roads”

These things do sell themselves !

The Chaloner Street people don’t build they buy land, apply for planning permission and sells on, nothing illegal but what an easy way to make money, for some. Glad now that a serious developer, Davos, have the site and we should see a quality build in an area South of the city centre earmarked for talls. How many years will this take to get through planning and Gateway 2, who knows, but if the Mayor starts his much publicised Baltic Station now any new residents here will benefit greatly from it.

Tom Morris and his team should be lauded they are singlehandedly transforming our city. Whilst he is very low key and avoids publicity his contribution is immense add to that he is doing this in his own city its brilliant we should acknowledge this and support Davos . In comparison compare the contribution of LCC and Mr. Rotherham ? Que tumble weed

Wasn’t impressed with previous plans for this site. I hope for a new classier design. I think the original plans had the tallest tower at 32 storeys. Can’t they push for a slightly taller than 27 storeys? I remember many years ago certain councillors talking about , what they called, a Southern cluster of talls in the city centre. Even councillors who would normally be against tall buildings were in support of the idea stating that that part of town felt flat or something along those lines. Be nice if they pushed for slightly taller (32 storeys) but more importantly I hope for much better/improved designs.

Original plans had a 32-storey tower but that was scaled back before the application went to committee.
As a note, the image in the story is of the 2020 proposals, not what Davos and Brickland are working up. Haven’t seen sight of those yet (but, if you’d like to send some my way Davos and Brickland, I wouldn’t say no…)

June 05, 2026 at 12:24 pm

By Julia Hatmaker

The design of this key site is really important. It’s a nodal site that on the inner ring road and it needs to be quality scheme architecturally. Hopefully it will reference the old warehousing style that this part of the city is famous for.

The St John’s district in Manchester has some really clever quality new builds that reference the warehouse style that existed before plus some good conversions of 50’s/60’s offices. Millie’s Hotel (new build), the Everyman cinema building etc on Quay St are good examples.

Needs careful planning!

@ John Smith, you need to get out a bit more and get with the times, go visit areas of London like Shoreditch. Hoxton, and so on, places with old warehouses and commercial activity. These were the go to places for the younger, ideas-filled people to congregate, live, and work. These areas become established and then another grows. That’s what happens in a busy, thriving city, which is what Liverpool used to be and needs to be.

It’s good something seems to be happening, and that it’s an investor both based in the city with his own considerable funds.
However Mr Morris is not the Messiah in spite of what the SkyscraperCity “Get it built” fanboys keep shouting, and none of this will be a philanthropic gesture.
None of this stuff is likely to happen unless all sorts of complicated financial considerations pan out, and given Manchester developers keep on claiming their skyscrapers are only viable in a vastly stronger market, the jury is still very much out on whether much greater density are actually justified in Liverpool, beyond looking pretty from a distance or in renders.

Tom Morris definitely has the best team working for him

Nice towers – can we have some like this in Manchester please 🙂

John Smith those ‘warehouses, industry and busy roads’ you reference are are home to a globally recognised creative cluster generating millions in GVA and supporting around 4500 jobs. Notwithstanding the significant hospitality operators in the area serving residents and supporting the business community and visitor economy. And if you don’t want to see more ‘cheaply built’ flats – what exactly are you bringing to the party instead??

Looks acceptable, however I’d prefer to see the lower design of the two shorter buildings to carry on and include top three/four floors.

Height wise its fine, though visually I think the middle building should be 9 storeys and the taller building increased by another ten storeys to make a more interesting form, while increasing views and natural light for the upper floors.

LCC/LCR needs to have the right framework in place with get Baltic completed, including Baltic Station, which appears to be nothing more than a mirage.

CGI’s are one thing, reality quite another ! 🙂

Great news!! Davos again!! Tom Morris putting his money where his mouth is! 🙌👏

It’s encouraging not just that it’s a local developer/investor, but also there’s no reason to doubt it’s his own money made entirely above board from his hugely succesful Liverpool-based business. The modern-day John Moores.
This hasn’t always been the case in the past; hopefully this will encourage other blue-chip investors into the city.

A knighthood for TJMorris please for single handedly (with his team of course) regenerating a city something which previous governments should have done.

Great to see movement on the development of this amazing site from Davos and Brickland. Norton Point would certainly be a great ‘bookend’ at the other end of the waterfront from the Davos/Beetham ‘Kings’ development. I do wonder if Davos had considered putting in a bid for the former Merseyside Police Headquarters at Canning Place? I do wonder if Tom Morris and Davos would have a far better vision of what is best suited to that site being a locally based business rather than ‘Homes England’? Great good luck to all the team at Davos and Brickland with the development of such a major gateway site in Liverpool. I can’t wait to see the cranes appearing on site. It will be just great to see.

Another day in Liverpool, another CGI.

If this is the final design, it feels like a missed opportunity. The site has a distinctive curved frontage, and the architecture could have responded to that much more creatively. A building that follows or accentuates the curve would feel far more site-specific, rather than looking like a fairly generic block placed onto an awkward plot.

Have Davos completed many schemes yet?

Anon 10.35am, a check on the profile of Davos shows the company has only been active since 2021. They initially were involved in industrial and logistics centred buildings eg in Knowsley , however they are also now involved with residential and have a portfolio of schemes on the go. They have done a great job in the Baltic completing an apartment block and are active at 118-126 Duke St restoring a Georgian Terrace but have encountered structural problems which they are addressing. I think once their schemes get through planning and/or Gateway 2 we will be impressed by the extent and quality of their projects.

The previous scheme was really unappealing. I hope the new one is much better!

Blimey..No.. Just No.. Quantity over Quality?. Let’s Stop This Throw up Shed Architecture and Return to Quality

@John 1.57pm, you need to calm down, Davos haven’t even put in a planning application yet. As regards let’s return to quality, you do know what was on this site previously, even before the scrapyard? If you think people are going to build replicas of the Liver Building or the demolished Customs House, well that ain’t going to happen.