Liverpool green light for Network Space
The developer has secured approval for 68,400 sq ft of industrial space in Aintree.
Network Space’s professional team is led by architect The Harris Partnership and planner Spawforths.
Liverpool City Council planning committee approved the proposals yesterday, with planning officers given delegated authority to discuss hours of operation at the site.
The developer’s intention is to build three standalone units of between 10,000 sq ft and 15,000 sq ft each, along with two terraces of divisible workspace. Each terrace would be around 15,000 sq ft in total, splitting into up to four units each.
Plans include a total of 3.650 sq ft of ancillary office accommodation.
The application site is located on vacant land in the north-east corner of Brookfield Business Park on Muir Road, off Brookfield Drive within the Aintree Industrial Estate.
Brookfield Business Park was developed in 2008, following the demolition of the Fazackerley Open Air School and the Clifford Holroyd School.
The 4.6-acre site forms part of the second phase of Brookfield, which wasn’t advanced in the immediate years after outline consent was established for up to 25 light industrial units.
Part of the site was sold in early 2021 to 4i as part of a portfolio deal also including a plot at Estuary Commerce Park in south Liverpool.
Along with the earlier Brookfield buildings, the newly consented site is close to Graylaw Trading Estate to the west and Aintree Industrial Estate and Belrose Industrial Estate to the south. HM Prison Altcourse neighbours the site to the east, with allotments to the north.
The application’s reference number is 21F/1008 on the Liverpool planning portal.
That planning application was registered in April 2021, so has taken around 20 months to get planning approval.
By Anonymous
20 months to get planning approval for industrial units on a vacant site allocated for industrial use which already benefits from outline planning permission. THIS is why people aren’t investing in Liverpool.
By Anonymous
20 MONTHS HAHAHAAA
By Anonymous
Planning dept been in all sorts of problems hopefully being sorted out now with the commissioners
By Town Hall Tommy
A browse at the Liverpool Council planning portal shows that nothing standout is coming through, and the backlog just seems to be applications for on-street communications masts, felling or pollarding of trees, or household extensions.
Very rarely do you see a major multi-million pound game-changer of a scheme, such as office block or high-rise apartments, which is what we really need.
By Anonymous