PLANNING | Residential towers across Liverpool on council consent list
High-rise developments proposed by Elliot Group, Prospect Capital and Nived Group are among projects to go before Liverpool City Council’s planning meeting on Tuesday 18 April.
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Ovatus I
Developer: Prospect Capital and Wilcocks & Wilcocks
Location: Old Hall Street
Scheme: 27-storey residential development
Apartments: 168
Architect: Hodder+Partners
Infinity
Location: The corner of Leeds Street and Pall Mall
Developer: Elliot Group
Scheme: Three 39-, 33- and 27-storey towers for residential, office and commercial space
Architect: Falconer Chester Hall
Apartments: 1,002 residential units, along with commercial units occupying a two-storey podium which frames the entrance to the development. Office units are also proposed on the second floor of one of the towers
Parking: 141 spaces, along with cycling facilities
Bevington Bush
Image is of previous application’s proposal at Bevington Bush
Developer: Nived Group
Scheme: Three blocks of between nine and 19 storeys
Apartments: 381
Architect: Falconer Chester Hall
Background: This application is the resubmission of an earlier application which was approved in May 2016, for three blocks of seven, 9 and 15 storeys for 318 apartments. The proposal now seeks consent for a bigger development with larger flats
Bankfield College
Developer & Architect: Signature Living
Location: Bankfield Road
Scheme: Residential development on former City of Liverpool College site
Apartments: 98
Swainbanks, Fox Street
Developer: Primesite Developments
Architect: KDP
Flats: 400, with 54 studios in former Swainbanks warehouse, and 346 across three new-build blocks
Background: Conversion of Swainbanks is almost complete, application is to remove basement car park and provide parking at ground level
All good news for Liverpool again.
By Man on bicycle
Once links to Manchester are improved, people will have jobs as well as a place to live!
By Rooney
Liverpool and Manchester, in the future, are going to be places the NW can be even MORE PROUD of!! Love all this!
By Schwyz
Love Liverpool
By Jos'e
Hopefully a Liverpool Contractor and local sub contractors will be awarded the work!
By cynicalbuilder
Exciting times for Lovely Liverpool…
By North Westerner
Those new towers will look fantastic from Everton’s new waterfront stadium.
By John.
The cartoon renders of the Elliot scheme are Miss leading, it won’t look anywhere near that good… it it gets built at all.
By Prudence
Excellent to see so many 1 bed apartments sold to overseas buyers, by off shore developers. Well done Liverpool. When will other cities wake up to this excellent way of regenerating their cities by creating lots of unwanted “investments” in all the parts of the city where land can be picked up for nothing and ignoring the centre or the bizarre economics of the overseas investor model.
By Slightly sceptical
@Prudence It will be getting built and will look even better than the pic )))
By Jos'e
Liverpool off plan sales with guaranteed yield are £250 psf at best. Infinity looks like it stacks up to a GDV of £130 million, but with nearly 800,000 of high rise space to build to deliver it, should cost £140 million (£175 psf all in), without land, finance or profit. Clearly one for the brave.
By Slightly sceptical
They look great but hope there will be some public realm and green areas around these. It would be good to see more living buildings to provide more greenery in the city and to help combat air pollution. This would really help transform the city.
By GR