Liverpool’s 401-home Metalworks set for approval
Jarron Investments’ development would see an interconnected 16-storey H-shaped building constructed on the corner of Leeds Street and Vauxhall Road.
Known as Metalworks, the development would offer a total of 401 homes, split across 396 apartments and five townhouses.
Liverpool City Council’s planning committee has been recommended to approve the scheme, located in the Pumpfields area of the city.
The proposed housing mix would provide 177 one-bed, 218 two-bed, and six three-bed homes.
Plans also include a 1,300 sq ft resident’s gym in the east wing block and a cinema room, workspace, and lounge.
The west wing would host a 2,500 sq ft ground floor commercial unit, complete with an internal mezzanine, for use as either a retail or an F&B offer.
Plans indicate parking would be provided for up to 52 vehicles, while there would be 180 secure cycle spaces.
The proposal is to be delivered as build-to-rent under a single management company. All the apartments would be privately rented and not for sale.
Before the 16-storey block can be constructed, the demolition of the former public house on Vauxhall Road will need to be undertaken. The pub has sat empty for around seven years.
A roof garden, complete with a running track, has been designed by Layer.studio Landscape Architects and would be installed atop the site’s west wing.
The scheme was designed by Falconer Chester Hall and had Turley as the planning, heritage, economics, sustainability, and strategic communications advisor.
Edge Consulting is the structural and civil engineer, ALT is advising on fire, Curtins on transport planning, and Proximity on sunlight. E3P is the geotechnical engineer, while GIA is advising on wind.
To view the application, use the reference number 24F/0059 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Gladstone Street, an SPV of Jarron, had a £1.7m bid for the plot accepted in 2023 after the previous developer went into administration. At the time of that developer’s collapse, administrators estimated the Metalworks project’s creditors were owed around £7m.
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Get it built.
By DenSity
A roof garden with a running track? And what if they run off the end? Who gets blamed?
By Anonymous
Uninspiring modernism again.
By Bixteth boy
This looks promising but we never know with this Liverpool Planning Committee.
This is a slight re-work of a previous design but you’d think this area would be able to cope with higher than 16 storeys as just about 200 metres up the road Infinity was planned to reach 39 storeys.
Anyway let’s get it built and re-populate this neighbourhood.
By Anonymous
What’s happening with Infinity Towers and the TJMorris bought site ??
By Anonymous
decent design BUT if we had m/crs planning dept wed have it 40 storeys and Leeds st would be a amazing gateway .
By alan perry
It baffles me how a developer can put buildings so close together. Ok for voyarism I suppose ! . Romals development at waterloo dock is a case in point ! .
By Anonymous
Why built these awful featureless blocks when the city needs family homes, not glorified tower blocks that could become slums in the sky like the blocks demolished around Netherfield Road etc. Eldonian Village is a prime example of good planning. Presumably the developer wants to cram as many tiny dwellings as possible on the land.
By Carol Hughes
Typical, 52 parking spaces for 400 flats!
By George Cook
So the council knocked down high rises saying they were ugly and killed the community spirit , to allowing more distasteful high rises to be built this council are not fit for purpose
By Pops57
@ Pops57,et al , the high-rise were demolished mainly because they gained a negative reputation from some people who were living in them, but that doesn’t mean high-rise is bad, just that some people don’t like them. Liverpool pulled down superb blocks of flats at Gerard Gardens, Fontenoy Gardens, etc some of which still survive now with private residents in them. It’s a silly suggestion to put houses with gardens right in the city centre as it looks ridiculous eg the low-rise houses on Park Lane, behind and beyond the Hilton and John Lewis’s. There’s a place for suburban housing and it’s not in the inner city, the clue is in the name.
By Anonymous
Imagine living half way down one of those towers. You’d get no sunlight and all you’d see is the neighbour in the opposite block sitting on the sofa in his undies!
By Paulie
@Carol Hughes you have to be joking. Liverpool is a city. Building suburban houses right by the city centre was a mistake of the 80s and the city is returning to its urban roots.
By Anonymous
There is something up with this planning application.
No affordable housing, 0.
The council’s case officer report says inadequate lighting, no public space, inadequate parking, more or less every council policy compromised. Yet still despite all the negatives concludes that it is recommended to be approved.
The council is getting nothing in return. No public space elsewhere. No affordable housign elsewhere. Nothing.
It begs the question why it is being approved? Have the council made a conscious choise to waive their own policies?
By Paul Corrigan
Something seems a bit fishy with this one. tiny studios, no parking, no 106, no affordable, all the internal rooms failed the daylight assessment.
By Anonymous
@ Paul Corrigan, you say the council gets nothing in return but there are 401 flats in this block and I believe council tax should be levied on each, so therefore that should bring in well over half a million pounds for the council each year.
As regards parking I know many schemes in London that provide no parking at all and people get on with their life by using cabs, buses, e-scooters, car-shares, bikes, etc.
By Anonymous