Grosvenor plots Liverpool hotel
The property investor, manager and developer has submitted plans for an office-to-hotel conversion on Lord Street in Liverpool city centre.
The proposal calls for change of use of the former office building, which closed in January 2019 and has been vacant since, to become a 58-bedroom hotel from floors one to four.
A bar, restaurant and roof terrace are also proposed, together with external alterations including the building’s windows.
The fourth floor would house the reception area, while the first to third floors would hold the hotel rooms.
Grosvenor was the developer behind the adjacent Liverpool One mixed-use retail and residential complex, which regenerated 2m sq ft in Liverpool city centre. The company acquired surrounding plots including Lord Street as part of its early plans for Liverpool One, and remained its asset manager.
In the planning documents for Lord Street, Grosvenor describes the area as a “key location” due to its position facing Liverpool One, and said the hotel scheme would “contribute positively to its setting by creating an elegant landmark building, and enliven Lord Street”.
The scheme is also situated within the buffer zone of the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site.
Avison Young, agent and planner for the scheme, said proposed alterations to the building are minor in nature and “seek to positively contribute to the visual character and setting of the world heritage area.”
The scheme was designed by Steven Chilton Architects.
This would have been a good opportunity to extend this building upwards to modernise it.
By Anonymous
I presume the bar/restaurant and roof terrace are an extension. Church Street/Lord Street, as Liverpool’s central thoroughfare, is ideal for more hotels. This is a post-war building. The whole of this side of Lord Street was razed in the Liverpool blitz. I think Grosvenor bought these a year or so after the development of Liverpool One.
By Liverpolitan
Good scheme. Gets the LL seal of approval.
LL
By Liver lad
Yes….on Church Street the old Littlewoods building was unobtrusively developed upwards to accommodate housing….the Lord Street edifice ought to be given the same treatment
By Tercol
I hope the Bixteth brigade dont start making noise.
By MMcDramaQueen