Liverpool site with consent for 416 flats up for grabs
Landowner John Doyle is looking to sell a plot off Blackstock Street in the emerging Pumpfields district having secured permission for a quartet of nine-storey buildings last year.
The two-acre site has planning consent for 416 apartments in an area of high development activity.
Interest in Pumpfields has been spurred on in part by Liverpool City Council’s decision to identify it as a growth area.
Earlier this year, the council appointed Levitt Bernstein to lead a team to develop a masterplan for the 75-acre area and various residential proposals have come forward in recent months.
These include plans from Jarron Investments for 400 homes and another 650 proposed by Seth Real Estate.
Doyle’s Blackstock Street site falls within the Pumpfields regeneration zone.
The landowner has been trying to build on the site since 2000. The initial vision was for 200 flats, which was approved at appeal.
The proposals were later revised with a goal of 420 flats across four 10-storey blocks.
After consulting with the city council’s planning officers more changes were made. The heights were reduced by one storey and the ninth floors were levelled out to, in the words of planner Landor Planning, “now more resemble the [city’s] historic dock warehouses in profile”.
Changes were also made to improve density of the scheme, the size of the apartments, and the ventilation and light provision.
In addition to Diaz Architects and Landor Planning, the project team includes Aeon Archaeology, Orion Fire Engineering, DeltaSimons, Tyrer Ecological Consultants, Environmental Noise Solutions, WSP, and Vectos.
At least now the landowners are coming out and confirming their longtime intentions, not just here but on a number of sites. So hopefully this and other sites, either with or without planning permission, will be snapped up by reliable developers and this will lead to the rebuilding of this city.
By Anonymous
Ooof, what an ugly mess.
By Anonymous
Liverpool council lopping off a floor or two? I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
By Anonymous
Sick bag, please!
By Tom
LCC need to get a grip of this area. Work positively with those landowners willing to develop and invest in their sites, and intervene on sites held by land bankers hindering development.
By Anonymous
Uninspiring. As usual.
By Anonymous
How much. I’ve got £100 million. My gran left me.
By James James
What a horrible design. A real eyesore.
By John
Yikes, Stalag luft anywhere. What on earth would you have done to be sentenced to ‘live’ there?
By Anonymous
Awful design
By Anonymous
I am glad this is being sold as the design is horrible. Hopefully, we eventually get something like the Tim Groom warehouse inspired blocks recently developed near the canal.
By Chris
That’s grim!
By Dover
I don’t see anything particularly abhorrent about this design as long as the materials are of decent quality.
If this was in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, no one would getting upset.
By Anonymous
Although I like the design with the modernist mansard windows, The colours in the cladding used for this are extremely drab and dull. If this was made from red brick with more uniformity then this would be 100% better.
By Anonymous