Double planning joy for Davos in Liverpool
The property development arm of TJ Morris has secured consent for two apartment schemes totalling 258 units in the Baltic Triangle.
Davos Property was granted planning approval for 59 apartments off Blundell Street and another 199 flats off Greenland Street.
Land bound by Blundell Street, Kitchen Street, and Simpson Street
The scheme features a bridge linking the new-build element and the existing three-storey warehouse. Credit: via planning documents
Rising to eight storeys at its tallest point, Davos’ scheme will provide 27 one-bedroom apartments and 32 with two bedrooms.
The site currently features a three-storey warehouse that will be incorporated into the scheme, with a two-storey link bridge connecting the existing building with the part six-storey, part eight-storey new build.
Three commercial units will occupy 4,500 sq ft of the ground floor, with the largest being 1,600 sq ft and the smallest 1,400 sq ft.
Residential amenities include a nearly 1,000 sq ft communal roof terrace on the sixth floor of the block, as well as 600 sq ft of internal amenity space no the first floor. Apartments would also have private balconies.
There is no parking built into the project.
None of the homes would be designated as affordable and there would not be any contributions made to off-site affordable housing because of viability concerns.
A review mechanism will be put into the planning agreement so that viability can be reassessed upon completion.
A viability statement published by planner Savills and with analysis from Zerum puts the project’s development cost at £13m.
Davos’s application is not the first for the site – TaylorHighdale had received an intention to approve for its plans for 86 flats five years ago, however a legal agreement for the scheme was never signed off.
In addition to Falconer Chester Hall, Savills, and Zerum, the project team includes: CHBS, Garry Miller Heritage Consultancy, Orion Fire, Futureserv, Acoustic & Engineering Consultants, Prime Transport Planning, and Hydrock.
Land bounded by Greenland Street, St James Street, and New Bird Street
Situated close to the future Liverpool Baltic Station, Davos’s second application is for a a five- to 13-storey block with 199 apartments, and nearly 2,000 sq ft of commercial space on a half-acre, brownfield site.
The site, which is currently vacant, was last used as a contractor’s site for Legacie’s nearby Parliament Square development.
Off the 199 homes proposed, 89 would be one-bedroom flats and 110 would be two-bedroom residences. These two-bedroom properties include 12 duplex apartments, half of which would front directly onto Greenland Street.
All of the apartments include either a balcony, private terrace, or Juliet balcony.
None of the homes would be designated as affordable, as per viability concerns.
A viability statement from planner Savills puts the gross development cost for the project at £56.8m.
Falconer Chester Hall is the architect for the project.
The team also includes CHBS, Garry Miller Heritage Consultancy, Orion Fire, Futureserv, Prime Transport Planning, Hydrock, and GIA.
To learn more about the scheme, search for application reference 25F/1191 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
It seems the penny has finally dropped with Liverpool Council with regards to viability. Amen to that.
Well done to Davos and their team: let’s get those cranes up, fellas.
By Anonymous
Positive news so really need to get on site ASAP, Davos has a number of schemes on the go but we’re not seeing much physical progress eg 118-126 Duke St, plus the project in the Fabric District. They have completed the block in Bridgewater St, which looks class, so hopefully we see more activity soon.
As regards Baltic Station why is Steve Rotheram so silent?
By Anonymous
Tom Morris is from humble beginnings but became a billionaire and now wants to help him hometown reach its full potential. King Edward Triangle is really ambitious and something the city needs to deliver.
By Neil
More groundscrapers
By Beano
Davos also have the Norton site at the bottom of Parliament Street, it’s in one of the zones for a tall cluster, and under previous owners had permission for 27 storeys. I think Davos will be allowed to go higher than that so fingers crossed they’ll submit something soon, after all Preston are looking to build a 30 storey tower.
By Anonymous
“There’s an increasing trend among city centre residents to forego cars in favour of public transport, ride sharing and short-term car hire and these trends are particularly evident in Baltic.” Amen to that.
By Anonymous
@Beano Skyscrapers going up on the waterfront not this area it would look daft.
By Anonymous
All good as far as the consents go.
Just a question – we all get excited about this Davos stuff. The developer undoubtedly has the money but have they built anything yet? They are still relatively recent on the property scene and could well just be in the planning permission phase but I’d really be comforted by cranes appearing.
Their schemes look decent though, so fingers cross they can crack on soon.
By Mike
This is great news for the Baltic area. The Davos scheme on Bridgewater St looks really good. Hopefully the Greenland St scheme will be better quality than most of Falconer Chester Hall’s recent stuff (the block opp John Lewis’s car park entrance is a shocker with some of the worst window detailing I’ve ever seen on a new buidling). Fingers crossed.
Agree with some of the other commentators – now over to Steve Rotherham to prove that he’s not just full of hot air. Baltic Station update please.
By Baltic Boy
Good luck to those waiting for something to happen with the Baltic Station. I suspect that the scheme is currently being buried in very long grass.
By Anonymous
This is just great news! I really hope that two developers who really believe in our city namely Davos and Legacie and whose developments will be next to each other in the ‘Baltic’ district will encourage other developers to ‘take up the baton’ and make other developments happen too and sooner rather than later. Hopefully the ‘crane count’ will soon be going up as spades do actually get put in the ground rather than being put to one side for a future date. Let’s just get going and let’s just get the diggers in!
By Brendan R
Great to see things being approved around the city…….. It appears to be a seemless process when it’s a billionaire who has paid the biggest every amount oo the council to pay for a freehold (on a different site)!
Wonder what they will get through without fuss next?
By Cynical Resident
Great news. If only the Chinatown development opposite could get off the ground. Going by the last plans there was a 19 storey and what looked like a building of around 14 Storeys either side of the Wedding House building and a row of buildings around 12/10 Storeys. I don’t think LCC seem to realise how big the Chinatown development could be for Liverpool.
I just imagine the area with loads of new restaurants, cafés, shops etc. It would be another cracking area for the city. I reckon it would be a massive success if done right . Could be a really vibrant area/addition to the city. Just hope whatever happens that it’s not scaled down by the usual doom merchants. This part of town needs big investment and it also expands the city centre.
By Anonymous