Packaged Living scores approval for Liverpool towers
Having successfully won over the city council’s planning committee this morning, the developer is now aiming to start construction on the 19- and 25-storey apartment blocks in early 2027.
Demolition of the existing redundant computer centre that currently occupies the Old Hall Street site is due to commence early next year.
The future 434 apartments will be delivered by Packaged Living, in partnership with Affinius Capital. The duo had acquired the brownfield site in 2022.
Packaged Living’s plans for the site include a mixture of one-, two-, and three-bed flats as well as coworking areas, a gym, lounges, and rooftop terraces.
The taller of the two towers will hold 150 flats with one bedroom, 146 with two, and six with three. Of its 302 apartments, 32 will be wheelchair accessible.
The other, shorter tower, will comprise 65 apartments with one bedroom, 63 with two, and four with three. Of its 132 flats, 10 will be wheelchair accessible.
There will be only seven car parking bays provided, with the developer focused on promoting active travel. There will be 16 Sheffield cycle stands and, in a bid to improve the area’s cycle network, the addition of a pedestrian and cycle route through Back Leeds Street.
Regarding the vote to approve from Liverpool City Council, Edwina Coward, development manager for Packaged Living, said: “We’re excited to be bringing forward a landmark development at this prominent gateway site and we’re so pleased to be able to provide more homes and public realm for this great city.
“An extensive public consultation unlocked the wisdom of the Liverpool public and we were delighted at the quality of people’s ideas and observations about how we could improve the scheme and connectivity towards the new Bramley-Moore Dock stadium and everything in between,” she continued.
“The outcome is very much a shared vision.”
Falconer Chester Hall was the architect for the project. Architect Adam Hall said: “The buildings offer an elegant and confident entrance statement to the city’s commercial core in an area that delivers on the potential of clustering taller buildings.
“The views north towards Everton’s new stadium, Blackpool Tower and the Lake District fells beyond will take some beating.”
To learn more about plans for Packaged Living’s proposals search for reference 23F/3073 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal. Turley was the project’s planning consultant and Re-form Landscape Architecture designed the public realm.
