Flanagans lodge plans for Liverpool flats
Proposals for 66 apartments on a strip of land off Great Mersey Street have been submitted to the city council.
Great Mersey Street Development, a company that lists John, Paul, and Julian Flanagan as directors, has submitted proposals to build three apartment blocks on a 0.7-acre site in Kirkdale.
In recent years, the Flanagan Group has been caught up in Operation Aloft, a Merseyside Police investigation into corruption at Liverpool City Council.
Co-founder Paul Flanagan, a well-known businessman in Liverpool, was among those arrested in 2020 as part of the probe.
The police are yet to bring any charges against any of the individuals arrested.
Great Mersey Street Development’s scheme would feature 14 one-bedroom flats and 52 with two bedrooms.
Block one would reach four storeys and comprise 24 flats, block two would be three storeys and house 18 homes, while block three would be six storeys tall and contain 24 apartments.
The site is earmarked for a residential development of up to 68 homes in Liverpool’s local plan.
Baldwin Design Consultancy and Broadgrove Planning are advising the applicant on its proposals. To learn more, search for reference number 23F/0694 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Liverpool-based Flanagan Group was mentioned in Max Caller’s damning report, which painted a picture of poor governance and mismanagement at Liverpool City Council.
Read the full Max Caller report
Caller said that the city council had transferred 14 plots of land to Flanagan Group at less than the best value.
Indeed, it transpires that the group paid nothing for some and £1 for others, according to a Freedom of Information Request lodged by the Liverpool Echo.
The Caller report said that “despite the positive policy objectives seeking new and innovative approaches to housing delivery expressed when the Small Sites scheme emerged in 2014 this has not been achieved.
“What is clear is that this extended project has achieved no capital receipt for LCC yet has resulted in material sums being outlaid by the authority to deliver housing on some challenging sites.
The report added: “In particular, the [Small Sites] scheme has enabled a local contractor to construct housing (but only where it chose to) at no risk to itself or its profit margins. This has left numerous sites undeveloped, but now LCC no longer owns or directly controls them.”
