Housing plan on former Liverpool flour mill baked up
Stonebond and Torus have applied for permission to build 63 homes on the former ADM Milling site in Dingle.
The mill ceased operations in 2022 and the complex has been vacant since.
Work to tear down the former flour mill off Mill Street is ongoing. Demolition of the buildings, which date back to around 1872 will leave a three-acre development site behind.
Stonebond and Torus’ plans will provide a 100% affordable scheme to be operated by Torus upon completion.
The development will feature 24 two-bed properties, 36 with three beds and a further three with four bedrooms.
A mix of mews style, semi-detached, and detached houses are proposed.
Vehicles would access the site from Mill Street. There would be an additional pedestrian access point from Corn Street to the north of the site.
NJL Consulting is advising on planning. To learn more, search for reference number 25F/2274 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
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Oh no ,semis and detached housing, have these people no vision or ambition at all.
Torus built that great scheme at Stanley Locks but now giving us the opposite here.
A terrible , inefficient use of land, and though only a flour mill it was an iconic site, they could’ve saved the facades of the older sections of the building and put apartments behind them up to 7 floors, but no this is Liverpool where we do dumbing down so we’ll.
By Anonymous
Why don’t we build a 96 storey Lego brick building here for the sake of it.
By Anonymous
Checked the planning application and these houses are totally bland in appearance.
Recently Liverpool CC produced its views on housing design standards and quality of build. Reading the pages you’d think the City would be upping it’s game here and matching modern architectural designs seen in other progressive cities in the UK.
If they had any backbone the Planning Dept should refuse this and ask them to come up with proposals that aren’t from the dark ages and make better use of valuable inner-city land.
By Anonymous
Great to see this finally coming forward – I’d been wondering what was going to happen with the site ever since the demolition application was submitted. It’s good to see someone like Torus on board and the delivery of family housing. However, given the scale and massing of the mill, I had hoped some something higher density than a load of two storey homes!
By Anonymous
I suggest they consider the impact the intended development of nearby Riverside Drive will have on the lack of infrastructure and how traffic will access and egress Mill St and its surroundings considering this development will be sandwiched by two arterial roads to and from the city centre.
By Anonymous
Maybe they aint paying the subs enough dough going on that headline.
By Harry Turnbull
Why not build up to the scale of the mill? It’s just outside the city centre and next to a train station! So wasteful to build semis here.
By Anonymous
Torus have done fantastic stuff on older buildings in rock ferry , allerton road fire station ,ogdens , Macclesfield etc etc …thus is average.
By George
I often drive past this and think what a great site. Gutted that it’s being demolished and no nod to its history! 1872 and we cant keep some of it and be more ambitious.
By Lizzy Baggot
It’s a site in a residential area surrounded by two storey houses. Of course it should be low rise.
By Anonymous
A terraced led scheme rather semis and detached – an appropriate layout and mix of family homes when considering the site surroundings
By Anonymous
Building houses this close to the city centre is a terrible waste of the land.
By Anonymous
Nice to hear your building on the old mill so many people from the Dingle community worked there all their working lives so it would be nice if the properties you’re building would be fitting to give them to people from the Dingle can you comment about this project you must know who there for you don’t build houses with out knowing who they’re for
By Joey
Make more 3 bedroom houses with parking and a decent garden front and rear. Good family homes people will make it a community together,
By Doug Neilon
More low appeal designs
What is going on behind the scenes here
Who is stopping progress in design etc
And why.
By Don
All you.dumbels that look forward to building a lego liverpool..
Our city is about people comunity spirit.
Build on that..give something back to the area.
By Anonymous
A park for the comunity would be better wer.children can enjoy freedome & space
By Anonymous
What a waste. Key buildings could have been saved and repurposed to create an interesting inner-city site. Instead, we’re left with a scheme reminiscent of that 80s suburban enclave next to Chinatown.
By Heritage Action
@Anon 11.01pm, you say Mill St is a low rise area, but that’s because the Council has made it that way over the last 25 years with these awful suburban semis. Take a look at historic photos of the area and there were magnificent 3 storey Victorian terraces, plus enormous, solidly built,6 storey tenements, the type you still find in European cities.
Unfortunately ask people who have little idea how to create a good looking , inspiring, urban environment and they won’t have much idea except give us houses and bungalows with front and back gardens, and a driveway for the car, now that might suit somewhere in Halewood or Knowsley but should not be entertained in inner-city Liverpool.
By Anonymous
Are there building any affordable bungalow’s? This is important for the elderly but this site should have a scyscraper on it due to Liverpools history
By Mary Woolley