New image lands for Liverpool towers
Packaged Living’s plans for 434 flats off the junction of Old Hall Street and Leeds Street are continuing to take shape, with a recently released CGI giving a better sense of how the 19-storey and 25-storey blocks will fit into the cityscape.
Packaged Living has been developing the Old Hall Place project alongside its funding partner Affinius Capital. The publishing of the CGI follows the developers’ submission of the planning application earlier this month.
If planning permission is secured, Old Hall Place will sit on the site of the former Blundell & Sons coal yard, which later became the old Littlewoods computer centre and a car park.
Construction could start in the third quarter of next year, according to a planning statement by Turley. The same document estimates that the timeframe for construction would be 24 months.
Falconer Chester Hall is leading the design of the apartment towers, with Re-Form as the landscape architect.
Of the 434 proposed apartments, 217 would have only one bedroom, 205 would have two, and 12 would have three. A variety of amenities are proposed for the towers, including a gym, private dining areas, lounges, coworking spots, and landscaped roof terraces.
There is no car parking included in the scheme, instead, there will be 320 cycle spaces to encourage more sustainable forms of travel.
Feedback from a consultation earlier this year was largely positive, according to Edwina Coward, development manager for Packaged Living.
“The quality and quantity of submissions via our consultation website was extremely encouraging,” she said. “People really thought about our proposals and wanted to contribute in myriad ways to improving them further.
“We have incorporated a number of suggestions around issues such as landscaping, materials palettes and the ground floor interface with the public and these are reflected in our keynote image, just released.”
Falconer Cheser Hall managing director Adam Hall praised the scheme’s height.
“The buildings offer an elegant book-end to Old Hall Street in an area that benefits from height and density,” he said. “The views along the river towards the new Everton stadium and beyond to Blackpool Tower and the Lake District will be superb.”
In addition to Turley, Re-form, and Falconer Chester Hall, the project team includes air quality and noise expert Hydrock, daylight and wind consultant GIA, and services engineer Crookes Walker Consulting.
TEP is the biodiversity and ecology consultant, while Elements is handling energy and sustainability. Rider Levett Bucknall is the CDM principal designer. Hex Consulting is the structural engineer and lead on flood risk, drainage, and transport.
Salford Archaeology, Artec Fire, Turley Heritage, and Omnia are also members of the project team.
You can learn more about the scheme by searching application reference number 23F/3073 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
