Fabric District student flats proposed
Molyneux Developments has submitted plans for a 103-bed scheme on Liverpool’s Gildart Street.
The eight-storey development would be located within Liverpool’s Fabric District, part of the wider Knowledge Quarter, and close to the city’s universities.
Designed by Revival Architecture, Molyneux’s development would see the site’s existing two-storey warehouse demolished to make way for the student scheme.
The site has been the subject of similar proposals in the past. In 2016, Liverpool City Council approved a six-storey, 105-bedroom student block proposed by a different developer.
Baltic PDC is advising on planning. To learn more, search for application reference 23F/3075 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Molyneux’s site is located next to another Fabric District plot earmarked for student housing.
Working with developer Caro, TJ Morris submitted plans last year to redevelop a site bound by Audley Street, Ilford Street, Gildart Street, and Kempston Street.
The regeneration of this part of Liverpool is gathering pace. Last week Fabric District Community Interest Company launched a prospectus outlining its vision for the area’s regeneration.
Liverpool City Council is planning to adopt a strategic regeneration framework for the area to guide future development.
If we can get all these proposed schemes on site this particular location will benefit greatly, also it can show other honest developers that this is an area to invest in.
The lower end of London Road needs urgent attention with the shantytown shops and wasteland needing sorting, the whole district can look so much better in the next 5 years.
By Anonymous
surely not just all student flats though that’s not going to help the area – 1 bedders with no commercial – thats why TJs apartment scheme is a travesty! With no bars for them to go to?
Places like Melodic (which has sadly been lost) students want funky bars and dont always want to go into town.
Need commercial units on the ground floor to get the footfall up London Rd – otherwise the market will be gone completely as the traders are suffering badly due to the closure of TJs and loss of footfall.
what happens when they all go home for the summer – does this not need mixing up a bit not just student flats….
When Liverpool city council do the public realm works not going to be able to get up or down there – and the market and ideas of a square will be lost unless LCC help the traders out.
So close to the Royal Hospital, Paddington Village, School of Tropical Medicine, the Knowledge Quarter, the Universities, the Empire, the Station the Museum and Art Gallery – all these jobs, all these people traversing up and down London Road – but not stopping for a coffee or a drink or a sandwich because its a bit deserted and a bit scary especially at night! Come on Liverpool City Council hurry up! Sort it out! MASSIVE POTENTIAL!
By Bob Dawson