Liverpool Shopping Park’s £8m final phase greenlit
Construction is due to begin before the year is out on a flagship, 26,200 sq ft M&S Food and two other 8,500 sq ft units at the retail park off Edge Lane.
Liverpool City Council has awarded planning permission to Derwent Estates, the asset manager for the Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation, for the fourth and final phase of its Liverpool Shopping Park scheme. The permission was granted using delegated powers.
A contractor is expected to be announced in the coming weeks for the 43,200 sq ft final phase of the retail park.
Estimated to cost £8m, this phase will bring the shopping complex’s floorspace to more than 277,000 sq ft.
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When the build is complete, M&S Food will relocate from its existing 11,000 sq ft unit to the larger 26,200 sq ft one – more than doubling its current floorspace. The retailer has signed a 15-year lease for the space.
The two other units, which total 16,500 sq ft, are unlet. McMullen Real Estate and CSP are charged with finding tenants for them.
When those occupiers are found, they will join Liverpool Shopping Park’s robust line-up of national brands including Smyths, Wagamama, JD Sports, Next, H&M, Boots, and Tesla.
James Maule-Ffinch, asset management director at Derwent Estates, noted that M&S signing on for a larger space was important.
“M&S’s commitment to a new flagship food hall is a significant endorsement of the park’s performance and this investment is testament to their confidence in the continued future success of the park,” Maule-Ffinch said.
“The remaining retail space presents an excellent opportunity to further strengthen an already exceptional tenant mix and sustained customer footfall. We look forward to commencing works and delivering the final phase of what has become one of the region’s most popular retail destinations.”
As part of the layout designed by RGP Architects, there will be 94 standard parking bays provided for this phase, including two with electric vehicle charging capability. There would also be nine accessible parking bays and nine parent and child ones, with another two EV charging bays for each of those designations.
Also included: 15 motorcycle bays, 18 covered cycle spaces, and 28 cycle hoops.
In addition to RGP Architects, the project team for this phase of Liverpool Shopping Park includes planner ATP, project manager Drees & Sommer, cost consultant TSA Riley, civil and structural engineer Healey Consulting, and MEP specialist Crookes Walker Consulting.
You can learn more about the application by searching reference 25F/3295 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Excellent news, a Zara here would be perfect.
By Sue Denim
Hi Julia- it should read as Liverpool Shopping Park please. Mentioned in title and a couple of times through the piece.
By Mark Aylward
Hi Mark – apologies for the error there. That has been fixed!
By Julia Hatmaker
Good news!!
By Anonymous
Great news for this section of Edge Lane and a real endorsement for the Gubay Foundation who kept to their word after the years of childish stand-off from the city council.
Edge Lane itself, going further into town, really does need more investment, not least on the Littlewoods Building, plus all the vacant plots that would be ideal for well designed housing.
By Anonymous
Zara’s should be in town centres !
By George
Great result for the client. ATP pleased to be able to secure planning approval for this final phase (aligned to a pre-let for the anchor unit), following work on all of the earlier phases.
By Mark Aylward- ATP
In fairness this scheme has been a success and started back when Joe Anderson was in charge. Not seen much else from LCC since then in fairness, delivery of anything has just halted.
By Anonymous
Well it’s about time good news if it all gets built. Certainly no mention of the cinema that was promised years ago!!!
By Anonymous
Fantastic development, if only we could have a couple more bus routes down edge lane, its a right faf to get to with a car current
By Anonymous
Great news for the location.
It could really do with better bus links along Edge Lane though, it’s basically just the 7 and it’s every half an hour, plus always has delays as it runs ~2 hours to and from Warrington.
Citizens Advice recently moved to the Innovation Park and people are having a hard time getting there.
By Anonymous
Oh god, and you thought the traffic here was bad already!
By Anonymous
Only thing missing is public transport to the shops. Not everyone has cars.
By Hj
Great. I am looking forward to even more congestion. It is already a nightmare to drive around. Let’s add more car dependent retail into the area, without any consideration of improving public transport links. LCC at its best!
By Anonymous
So pleased to see Liverpool rising like a Phoenix. I never dreamed cruise ships and millions of tourists would return to the City . Love you and miss you Liverpool
By David
Liverpool is beginning to look amazing. I was there last Saturday. I remember the dereliction in the 80s. It is great to see it back.
By Elephant
Re: Elephant. Thank you.
By Man on bicycle
Liverpool is miles better than it was back in the 1990s, but let’s not kid ourselves we are still way behind other cities in terms of jobs, inward investment, and transport. One of our assets is the entrepreneurial spirit of our people but this needs to be supplemented with big hitter investors too.
By Anonymous
Liverpool is beautiful and amazing and historic and global it just needs more office’s for new company’s. And I would like to see more tea rooms maybe they can build one here?!.
By Mary Woolley
Be careful what you wish for. Liverpool could end up being like Manchester, and nobody prefers Manchester.
By Anonymous
Where is it in Liverpool???
By Anonymous
@ Anon 4.12pm…..Edge Lane, it tells you at the top of the article, failing that check out the planning reference number stated at the bottom of the article and there will be a location map.
By Anonymous
Great. Traffic here is already a nightmare. People exiting the shopping park and blocking the intersection on edge lane. Booooo.
By Anonymous