Duke Developments plots £12m Liverpool resi
The developer has submitted plans for 70 apartments on Kempston Street in the Fabric District.
If approved, the project will see a half-acre plot developed, with the accommodation spread across two blocks. There will be 30 one-bed homes and 40 two-bedroom, with no studios or student accommodation.
The 63,600 sq ft development, designed by Liverpool-based Studio RBA, also includes a 10,000 sq ft residents’ roof garden, 4,750 sq ft of shared courtyard space, two residents’ lounges and a mix of ground floor commercial units totalling 3,615 sq ft.
AWK Engineers is the structural engineer for the development, with Highways Advice the transport planner.
“This has been a genuinely collaborative effort with the council’s planning team, who have helped us shape a really good scheme,” said a spokesperson for Duke Developments.
“The new local plan has been key because it provided us with certainty and clarity around issues such as unit mix and space standards. It also steered us towards the local CIC’s vision for the area, which shaped our thinking around the mix and type of workspaces in the development.”
Registered in Liverpool, Duke Developments was incorporated in 2017. Two directors are currently listed on Companies House, Ryan Robinson and Bashir Ahmed Ali Saleh.
Proximity to public transport has allowed the developer to pursue a car-free development, with 80 managed cycle spaces to be provided.
Adam Morgan, architect director at Studio RBA, said: “There’s a lot to this development with regards to how it responds to its context, but also in the way it embraces the standards demanded by the local plan.
“There was some caution around the plan initially, but based on recent experience working within its requirements it’s clear how it encourages a more thoughtful and aspirational approach to development. We’ve brought those learnings together into this project, providing lots of active frontage and open space.
“The development links Kempston Street with Islington and connects nicely with neighbouring developments too, rather than turning its back on them.”
Duke said that the scheme is being funded by the developer’s private resources and will not use fractional selling, adding that the firm would take “a relaxed view with regards to how many units we decide to sell and how many we retain on our balance sheet for rent”.
To learn more about this application, search for reference number 23F/0666 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Really poor balcony provision here
By Balcony Warrior
Encouraging to see further developments in the Fabric District.
Hopefully the stalled sites will be taken over by new people.
By Liverpool4Progress
Great to see a proposal that isn’t designed around cars. That is creating dead space for car parking that isn’t needed and won’t be used. Most city centre residents don’t need a car sitting idle, parked on valuable land. #TakeTheBus #RideTheTrain #PeddleYourBike
By CarCritic
Car free development.. good luck with that..
By Not convinced
Another surface carpark gone, and the re-densification of the London Road area is great news
By GetItBuilt!
Even though this has been discussed with the planning team I bet they still won`t be able to resist lopping a floor or two off, as far as car-free is concerned this happens in London all the time it`s nothing new. That said glad to see a proposal come forward and this will help re-populate the London Road area, sad though to see that they have to stress that it`s not for students, as this in a way just reinforces the unfair demonisation of that group.
By Anonymous
And who are Dukes Developments?!?!?
By Anonymous
Let’s see a Reduction in hight,.Large size apartments and Better Quality Design and Construction
By John Lynn
@John Lynn, you want a reduction in height , larger apartments , and better quality design and construction. So where are the developers who are queuing up to deliver your vision. I get the impression you don’t like profit or a booming local economy, otherwise you would understand that we exist in a market economy and if you think we are going to get by strangling investment and ideas in this city then things are going to get worse.
By Anonymous
@John Lynn. Lets see a progressive planning process that isn’t hung up on ideology and will let the city actually grow and prosper. Notice there is barely a handful of cranes on the skyline and acres of empty plots whilst the city is at the bottom of almost every table it doesn’t want to be bottom of. Meanwhile the other core cities are booming.
By Anonymous