Developer rethinks Parr Street Studios apartments
PJ Percival Construction Northwest has pitched a new plan for an aparthotel, apartments, and retail space on the site of the Liverpool studio where Coldplay, Blossoms, and Echo & The Bunnymen have recorded.
Liverpool City Council approved in December 2021 an initial application for the demolition of a series of buildings on Parr Street to make way for 70 apartments, eight aparthotel rooms, and 12,000 sq ft of commercial space.
Now, the developer has had a change of heart and refashioned the proposals include more aparthotel rooms as well as leisure facilities.
The project also now focuses on 33-45 Parr Street, whereas the earlier application also included 47-55 Parr Street.
The updated proposals call for the partial demolition of the former Parr Street Studios building (the recording studio having moved location last year), with the façade retained. Meanwhile, the single-storey building next to it.
Under these new plans, designed by Footprint Design Architects, the new complex would top out at eight storeys. Floors one through five would comprise a mixture of 56 one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Another two floors would have 20 one- and two-bed aparthotel suites, each with their own kitchenette.
There would also be a restaurant, sauna, spa, pool, gym, lounge, and bar.
A roof terrace on the sixth floor would be an additional amenity.
There is also 8,700 sq ft of flexible working space proposed as well as a function room.
The ground floor of the building would contain 6,000 sq ft of commercial space spread across three units.
Like its predecessor, no car parking is provided in this application. However, there is space for 120 bicycles to be stored.
In addition to Footprint Design Architects, the project team includes planner TPS, flood risk consultant MDA, noise expert Hann Tucker, and bat roost surveyor Amenity Tree Care Ecology. Also on the team are DTPC Transport, Clancy Geotechnical, and Clancy Structural Engineering.
You can learn more about the application by searching 23F/0081 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Nice design, get it built!, the Ropewalks should be completely regenerated with in the next few years once the last few grot spots are done up or replaced (ideally retained)
By GetItBuilt!
Good news as long as it’s started soon, what about the hotel backing onto Wolstenholme Square from Duke St, looks to have stalled.
By Anonymous
Love it. A bit more gossip
By Anon
What happens to 47-55 Parr Street?
By Just saying
Think The Smiths also recorded here
By Anonymous
I can’t fathom Liverpool council. They won’t let developers go tall in areas where it would really work (witness the emasculation of Nextdom’s plans) but in areas where the Georgian townscape requires less height and more respect, such as Duke Street and parts of Ropewalks, they’re allowing 8 storey lumps to demean the elegant architecture next door.
By Sceptical
This looks great. Hopefully they stick to this design.
By Chris
A good looking scheme about the right height on these secondary streets where the warehouse motif is already higher. I like the mix! More flexible working and quality office space required. Sony has already filled the old Bibby’s HQ on Duke Street.
By Pool of Life
Too classy
By Anonymous
@ Sceptical, the Duke St area has historically had larger buildings like Humyak House or the Gostins building.
There are fine terraces on Duke St but we cannot wait forever for the ideal development to sit next to them. The area will benefit from hotels and they will almost inevitably be 6,7, 8 storeys at least.
By Anonymous