Marshall ‘keen to press ahead’ with Liverpool hotel on long-vacant site
Located on the Strand, the 168-bed scheme was approved in 2020 but is yet to start on site.
Marshall CDP has applied to Liverpool City Council to make some tweaks to the approved designs while making clear its intention to progress the project.
Marshall is “keen to press ahead as soon as possible”, according to documents sent to Liverpool City Council.
The scheme was unveiled in 2019 and proposed the construction of a 10-storey hotel designed by Studio Mutt on the site of the former Kingston House between James Street and Strand Street in Liverpool city centre.
The prominent site has been vacant since the demolition of Kingston House in 2010, and while planning permission was previously granted for a 99-home, 14-storey residential development, this was never progressed.
A company controlled by Marshall bought the site for £2.75m from Langtree in 2017. Langtree acquired the plot from the Homes and Communities Agency in 2014 and had planned to build an office there.
Marshall secured consent for its hotel scheme in 2020. Once complete, the project would sit between two other hotels: a Travelodge and the White Star Line Hotel.
Lamentable the quality of modern architecture around such a major Street.
By Anonymous
yeah right. not a chance they will build this out, the are a shed developer.
By Anonymous
Good luck that land has been vacant for 20 years and Labour Liverpool are hard to deal with .
By Anonymous
I hope they improve the render here, it is very, well you know average.
By Liverpool4Progress
Hopeful. Design however suffered from a totally unnecessary reduction in height.
By LEighteen
To be fair the developer has been messed about by Liverpool Planning over various predictable issues like height, design/heritage, but that was some years ago and Marshall themselves have dithered and stalled and sought many minor alterations.
Such a prime site left idle for so long tells me there will not be the promised action here, but I hope I’m wrong.
By Anonymous
This is welcomed news. This plot has been vacant for far too long and is a real blot on the landscape.
By LordLiverpool
A lovely row of grey boxes. Waterfront of the world… trashed!
By Anonymous
Very poor architecture for this important site …..it deserves much better
By George
Bland design, toytown scale. Such a prominent site deserves something so much better. At one time, I thought something like this was better than nothing, now I know nothing is often better.
By Kenrick
Good. A blight of a site
By Anonymous
At least build with a stone clad base and upper red brick..make some effort
By John lynn
It’s a prime location in the middle of a former World Heritage Site, bang next to a famous listed building. Is that really the best the developers can come up with?
By Anonymous
What a horrible looking building. Is this really the low standard we want in such a prominent location?
By Heritage Action
This looks perfectly fine for the site. Quality architecture costs money.
By Anonymous
Good. Studio Mutt do some very nice stuff. As per the comments are insane, you lot will never be happy.
By Dr Ian Buildings
This is a really prime site and in a really amazing location on the waterfront but the design and the ideas shown show very little imagination or any appreciation of the sites location. This building could just be put up anywhere. The location deserves a far, far better design than this. The site has been vacant for 15 years and in my humble view will probably remain vacant for another 15 years despite what the developers say. Maybe the site will be put up for sale again in a few months and then hopefully either Legacie or Tom Morris and Davos could take the site on and do something really imaginative with it.
By Brendan R
The council pulls to bits applications further away from the world famous three graces on elevational treatment and other design elements and they granted this!!!! Just look at the other building in the CGI. How on earth can this be ‘in-keeping’???
By Anonymous
Even ChatGPT can come up with a better design than that. What is going on here?, this is a prime site and should be of the highest quality to mirror the surrounding buildings. We want stone, cornicing, setbacks, no random windows or cladding, something in similar scale to Albion House. LCC are only interested in making sure buildings are reduced in height, how about caring about quality and design based on the immediate surroundings?
By GetItBuilt!
If this design was in, say, Lyon, Berlin, Copenhagen, there would be no complaints, it’s much better than the Travelodge next door.
The developer needs to live up to their promises and get on site and get it finished.
By Anonymous
@anon 2:11pm – Marshall CDP do more than sheds – they developed The Lincoln office block on Brazennose Square in Manchester
By red rose
Liverpool will be dIfFeReNt !!!
By SO UNIQUE
Wonderful corner plot facing onto some of the best buildings in Liverpool. Terrible unimaginative design!
By Paul Blackburne
We had Cooper’s pub there bringing life and footfall to that part of town. It was closed down unnecessarily and has just been a eye sore since. 🤬
By Mike
Get a move on because work has dried up in Liverpool
By Anonymous
It should remain as a homes and communities project ,for desperately needed social housing….We have a city centre full of homelessness…
By Chestnut
Total incompetence that such a prominent site should be allowed to be derelict for 15Y.., councillors and officials should hd there heads in shame but also start getting a grip. If the involved private capital does not have the resources to redevelop then force change.
By Anonymous
@ Chestnut, this is not a site for social housing, there’s plenty of space outside the city centre for that. Meanwhile you say the city centre is full of homeless, well it isn’t and I’ve seen far worse in Manchester. Yes we have people sleeping rough but a lot of people in town are beggars seeking money, and when I’ve spoke with them they have accommodation.
So let’s hope this hotel gets built as the site has been an eyesore for too long.
By Anonymous
Typical Liverpool city council taking years and years to approve anything no wonder construction companies go to Manchester
By LB
Is it confirmed to start being built?
By Hassnat Ahmad
It’s a Hotel ,architects and developers don’t care what the thing looks like from the outside ,its all about beds low maintenance and the interior decoration, that’s were they want to spend their money,a plain box is good enough for them ,its all about making the thing make money for the client its aesthetic is way down the list..
By Anonymous
Another hotel in that area? come on
By Anonymous