Funding cued up for One Pall Mall Gardens public realm
A Liverpool City Council sub-committee will next week be asked to sign off an allocation of £2.47m to support delivery of landscaped space at the long-awaited commercial development.
LCC’s Section 106 Allocations Sub-committee meets on Wednesday 8 April, with three items to decide on, the Pall Mall allocation and two infrastructure upgrade schemes in Belle Vale ward.
As set out in the officer report, approval is sought to allocate £2,472,944 of Section 106 funding, sourced from developments in City Centre North ward, to support the project, on which Kier Property is landowner LCC’s development partner.
With the council stumping up a £15m grant last year to kickstart development of the 111,000 sq ft office project, Kier has this year reworked amenity spaces and moved to the final design stage. LCC has also agreed a rent guarantee scheme,
The requested public realm funding will be used solely for eligible works, including The Lawns, Terraced Gardens and Bixteth Walk.
The report said that “these works provide significant city‑wide public benefit, and improve connectivity within the Commercial Business District”.
Construction of phase one is expected to start in Q4 of this year, with the development expected to reach practical completion in 2028. The phase one public realm will be privately managed but publicly accessible in perpetuity.
The wider project at Pall Mall could see up to 400,000 sq ft of grade A offices, a hotel and supporting uses delivered around new green public space.
A long‑standing strategic regeneration site for the city, the site is bounded by Pall Mall, Bixteth Street and Exchange Station.
Just Get It Built! why is it taking so long!?!
By GetItBuilt!
It has taken too long to move this scheme to delivery, but with the recent call for Grade A office projects from the Combined Authority Pall Mall must be top of the priority list.
By Anonymous
Phase One looking to complete in 2028 but do we know how many sq ft that entails, then there’s the hotel,is that still a goer. This development is badly needed and should be built out in full, other cities are building much bigger schemes than this and we need to catch up. If the King Edward proposals work out, plus other schemes at Old Hall St and Pumpfields then this will transform the whole area.
By Anonymous
Already plans to convert into flats 6 months after completion
By Anon
Just another group of ugly boxes
By George
We need Liverpool Exchange here instead of this. Move this development to the other side of Pall Mall.
By Anon
Seventeen and a half million pounds of public money for offices that no-one needs.
By Anthony
Worked in St Paul’s square since 2018. 2019 the existing green space was closed. Sat dormant for 7/8 years before beginning later this year (if it actually does). What a pathetic indictment of our council
By Anonymous
@ George, you call these offices ugly boxes, but what style would you like to see?
Gothic, Art Deco, Bauhaus ?
Go to cities around the UK nowadays and the box style that you dislike is the norm.
By Anonymous
Have any plans for “400,000 sq ft of grade A offices, a hotel and supporting uses” been published?
By Concerned WaterfrontNorth
If certain councillors hadn’t opposed the scheme years ago Pall Mall would now be fully built out and occupied. Such a shame.
By Anonymous