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.”
LCC needs to build new council houses and refurbish old ones and put them back into use
By Collette
Liverpool has enought council houses, it needs better houses for more affluent types, cities need diversity, not ghettoisation
By Phi
Get it built, and that’s another vacant plot gone and more homes
By GetItBuilt!
Re other comments, Liverpool has no council houses ! All transferred to housing associations years ago . Who made major investments in the ie central heating, double glazing etc . Council house can’t be built now cos government have withdrawn the subsidies which allowed then to be built in the 30/40/50/60s .
By George
This is the type of Lpool story PNW laps up.
Like a dog with a bone.
By Eric
New council houses? Don’t think so.
The council needs to attract well paid jobs for our young residents and incomers , get developers in and create wealth instead of being the poor man of the NW all the time.
By Anonymous
I wish they would build something at the bottom of Rickman Street.
Instead of Bonfires.
By John
@Eric I agree PNW only represent Manchester City Centre and deliberately scale down all positive development news in Liverpool.
But PNW have no influence in Liverpools bright future or fortunes and Liverpool does not need PNW .
By Anonymous
Can we see a 3D view so I can pass judgement on this?
By Balcony Warrior
Anonymous. In the 1980’s LCC developed and built hundreds of council houses across the City that provided first class living conditions (with central heating & double glazing) and front and rear garden amenities rather than the decrepit post war tenement and multi-storey buildings that had none of these facilities.
The value and rent collected on these homes if they have not been transferred to housing associations would have provided sufficient investment for a like minded Council to continue the house building programme of the Labour Council of the 1980’s.
By IR
This will cause massive disruption to what is already in the close surroundings of the proposed site. It will have a badimpact on local businesses and charities also.
By Anonymous