Liverpool skyscraper masterplan features arena and 2,750 homes

Gotta hand it Hugh Frost and his team – they’re not hanging around. Here’s hoping the council keep pace with their ambition.

We call the beetham tower in Manchester.. the big ugly tower.. we need an impressive skyline.. Houston, New York, Tokyo.. Liverpool…. that’s not what they produce

Interesting, and needed in terms of a bigger arena, not sure from previous proposals where exactly that arena fits in the plot? Or could it be on the current Home Bargains/Costco site?

Can you please provide a link to the report?

Much needed, the current arena was built with a woefully inadequate capacity that made it uncompetitive from the start.

Fantastic news and all from a local man who started on a market stall and through his own business acumen made his money, keeping many local people in work, as well as those in his shops across the UK.
Our current arena is too small now and not attracting the biggest global stars, and one assumes a new arena would be in the Ten Streets area and therefore a new Merseyrail station would be a must.

Looking forward to hearing more details soon. It’s starting to look very promising and if the sizable arena is built that would be a real game changer as it would be very central and connected to other amenities.

The scale and ambition for this project, together with the people involved is exactly what Liverpool needs.

I wish them well. I hope their ambition is matched by support from the Council and Mayor Rotheram’s team. A real test of ambition for both organisations, have they got the imagination and ambition required to get a scheme of this scale delivered? It would certainly break the cycle of failure and stalled developments that continue to blight the city.

An ambitious developer in Liverpool, surely it can’t be true?

Excellent news, this will really be a massive boost to the City.

All sounding very positive!! 🙌👍

Let’s make this a reality and merge with Manchester

This needs to be FastTracked

This is hugely encouraging. Whilst I admire greatly how Manchester has reinvented itself with drive and ambition over recent decades, I still hold the view that Liverpool – with its sublime architecture, and especially its waterfront, has the edge over our M62 neighbours in terms of the built aesthetic. Sorry if that sounds biased, but Manchester will forge ahead as an impressive powerhouse, regardless of how other northwest centres fare – and good luck to a great city. But I stick to the view that there’s enough space in our region for these two commercial centres – plus other smaller, but related, conurbations such as Preston, Chester, Bolton, Birkenhead, etc – to expand and prosper at their own chosen pace.

Cautiously optimistic as Frost has the track record and expertise. If the Labour Council stop it then I will NEVER vote for them again. We can’t be in Manchester shadow any more.

The “Destination Arena” – will be interesting to see if it can repeat the success of Co-op Live in Manchester by not having a penny of public funding to deliver it. Doubt it.

Disappointed – To included Liverpool in the same bracket as Houston, New York and Tokyo is ridiculous and deluded. Let’s try and catch up with Manchester and Leeds first, this proposed development goes some way to achieve this and should be welcomed.

Liverpool was known as the New York of Europe. We have seen progress the last 20 years but Manchester has raced ahead. it’s time to be a serious city again. Planning department and NIMBYS please don’t mess it up.

That waterfront was made for Skyscrapers. Most people just want to see some ambition and not be run like a small town going nowhere. There are two major cities in the North West not one.

Total nonsense. You can’t get eight storey’s past the planning department

From the NY of Europe the Hull of the NW

This news about the proposed development is just brilliant and so lets just get the spades in the ground and the development underway as soon as possible. Hopefully there will be a ‘ripple’ effect from it and that other developments in the north end of the city and even just in the city centre itself will get a massive ‘kick start’ from it. To LCC all I will say is here is a golden opportunity to get a development done and so please don’t blow it or sink it!!! Just let it be done.

In 50 years time it’ll still be getting talked about

To invest in Liverpool is to invest in its history
Skyscrapers do NOT make a city.
Don’t make Liverpool Soulless

Why is Manchester mentioned in nearly all comments what does Manchester have to do with Liverpool future plans they don’t even have a water front some of their new builds aren’t exactly iconic to say the least.

Sorry pal but Beetham Tower in Manchester is iconic. None of my mates call it the big ugly tower. This masterplan here sounds cracking – and 60 floors in another northern city: bring it on!

These buildings have to be based in reality ie cost in. I hope the design is better than the average in the UK. Something a little more aesthetic here would be nice. It’s not the talls that concern me..they are relatively few in most cities..it’s the mid level dross that seems to permeate with blandness and lack of ambition every development in our increasingly grey and bland cities.

The North West is slowly but surely back, where it belongs, as the engine of our country.

Hughy Bentham and Davros are knocking it out of the park. They can’t be developing the whole thing, so where does the rest of the developments come from.

Whats everyone’s obsession with us wanting to be like Leeds or Manchester. We are Liverpool amd dont want to be like anyone else. Be individual, different offer something others dont something unique thats drives investment and new jobs. We dont want non description bland like Manchester or any other City we want something thats says we are Liverpool…….!!!

Can we have more ugly buildings like Princess Dock please

Great news for the north west. Get it built.

Even as a mancunian I got to admit that Skyscrapers look a lot better on a waterfront. A lot of people on here are obsessed with MCR but Its clear Liverpool has a lot of potential. Its just the mediocre politicians and planning that hold it back.

Prepare for another decade of disappointment people. Not cynical. Just realistic about economics and geography.

@ Michael Cushion – you already do do something different to those other cities. Its called nothing

Although the size of the Arena is a disappointment there is still plenty of use for a 25000 sq ft venue hosting bands or sporting events eg I know the Dow Centre in Saginaw, Michigan is a similar size and is popular, also in Liverpool the North End of the city is now becoming a destination.
As an aside it took Paul Simon 4 days to hitch-hike from Saginaw, so there.

@Michael Cushion we don’t want to be like Manchester or Leeds? They would rather be in Liverpool’s position to build high rises on a waterfront. Completely different cities. We are not landlocked

Skyscraper is a relative term. Two 30 story apartment blocks and a bunch of low rise . Not exactly Manhattan on Mersey but at least it would be something and some development would be nice.

Most mancunians hate the skyscrapers that have been built

I geninely think Manchester would be v. happy if Liverpool regenerated and added to the NW economy. A stronger Liverpool would make a stronger Manchester. Not sure about the likes of Birmingham however.
As someone else has already sugggested, Manchester will carry on regardless.

Start the merge of these two great cities!

All starting to look too good to be true. Liverpool is a sub- regional city, whether you like it or not, and there are such things as viability gaps….this feels like a classic case study of one!

Beetham tower is iconically bland and boring

‘Most Mancunians hate the skyscrapers that have been built’ and of course you’ve asked them all…no ? Just your mate then? Cognitive dissonance at its finest! Also this article is about the possibility of skyscrapers in Liverpool..so there’s that.

For such a bland, boring and ugly tower Beetham Tower doesn’t half get a lot of comments! Built by Liverpudlian developers in Manchester, perhaps there’s a message there – we’d be better off together

@ Brian Cartwright, Liverpool is becoming soulless and one dimensional because it’s not keeping up with the times and attracting jobs that will keep it’s young people in the city.
This development is a massive boost for the city’s profile and the transport authority needs to recognise we need a better metro system to cope.

Goodluck with Liverpool Labour planning , they don’t know what they want for Liverpool .

As a Mancunian I want to state that I love the skyscrapers in our city and the brilliant transformation of the centre in the last 30 years. I wish Liverpool well in the quest for taller buildings on the waterfront.

if this doesn’t go ahead due to planning, can government step in and take a serious look at the aggressive under-ambition in Liverpool’s planning department. Anything mildly dense just gets knocked back – that’s if they even engage. It is terrifying and I’d call it a joke if it wasn’t so depressing

We already know the outcome of this, lets face it !!!!!

If this plan gets passed can you hire some adult architects with a little imagine please? All of the recent new builds are the same childish glass Lego and look dreadfully soulless. Liverpool and her surrounding areas are credited to so many of the world’s firsts in building design, engineering, transport, green spaces as well as the most listed buildings (outside of London). Liverpool is a beautiful port city, there is a huge art & music culture, and her people are known for their friendly quirkiness and passion, so lets have something that reflects that.