Liverpool student flats tipped to progress
Molyneux Developments’ 103-bed scheme off Gildart Street has been recommended for approval by the city council’s planning committee.
The student housing scheme proposes 14 studios and 85 cluster apartments.
Molyneux’s seven-storey development would be located within Liverpool’s Fabric District, part of the wider Knowledge Quarter, and close to the city’s universities.
Designed by Revival Architecture, Molyneux’s development would see the site’s existing two-storey warehouse demolished to make way for the student scheme.
The site has been the subject of similar proposals in the past. In 2016, Liverpool City Council approved a six-storey, 105-bedroom student block proposed by a different developer.
Baltic PDC is advising on planning. To learn more, search for application reference 23F/3075 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Molyneux’s site is located next to another Fabric District plot earmarked for student housing.
Working with developer Caro, TJ Morris submitted plans last year to redevelop a site bound by Audley Street, Ilford Street, Gildart Street, and Kempston Street.
The regeneration of this part of Liverpool is gathering pace. Earlier this year, Fabric District Community Interest Company launched a prospectus outlining its vision for the area’s regeneration.
Liverpool City Council is planning to adopt a strategic regeneration framework for the area to guide future development.
Plans from Thai restaurant Giggling Squid to open up on Castle Street are also recommended for approval at next week’s meeting.
This application has been with planning since December 2023 and is just going before committee, it’s not as if it’s a mega project so to take 11 months to get to this stage says a lot.
Meanwhile the nearby TJ Morris scheme mentioned is still not on site.
By Anonymous
Planning in Liverpool considering there is very limited going on development wise is staggering the amount of time .
By Anonymous
I wonder what the strategic framework for “fabric district” will be be. More student flats I imagine.
By Anonymous
I’m afraid the planning department at LCC is still moving too slowly.
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