Packaged Living unveils plans for 25-storey Liverpool tower
Old Hall Place would provide 434 apartments at the junction of Old Hall Street and Leeds Street.
Packaged Living has launched a consultation on its plans to deliver the flats in Liverpool, featuring a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments. The consultation on the proposals will run until 26 July.
Designed by Falconer Chester Hall, the scheme would create two towers ranging from 19- to 25-storeys.
Proposals for Old Hall Place include a range of shared amenity spaces including lounges and co-working areas. There would also be roof terraces with views across Snowdonia, Blackpool, and the Lake District.
Residents would be provided with 282 cycle spaces, as well as accessible car parking bays.
If approved, work is anticipated to start on the scheme early next year for completion in late 2026.
Edwina Coward, development manager at Packaged Living, said: “Today’s city centre resident is increasingly living, working, and spending leisure time in the city and embracing car clubs, public transport, walking, and cycling.
“The scheme offers superb cycling facilities including a bike hub and repair workshop”, she continued.
“We’re putting a lot of focus on the ground floor landscaping and uses to make this a place where people will want to dwell, as well as aesthetically enhancing this junction as the northern gateway into Liverpool city centre.”
Architect Adam Hall added: “We have enjoyed a very collaborative set of meetings with Liverpool Council and now it is time to ask the public what they think.
“The proposals envisage a high-quality development that will offer a fitting book-end to Liverpool’s thriving commercial district.”
Currently vacant, the site consists of an unused office building formerly home to Littlewoods’ computer centre.
Packaged Living acquired the two plots on Old Hall Street last November in a partnership with USAA Real Estate. Part of the site benefits from planning permission for a 27-storey tower with 168 apartments, a scheme drawn up by Hodder + Partners and approved by Liverpool City Council in 2017.
In 2018, a consultation was launched on plans for a 48-storey tower on another part of the site however a planning application was never submitted.
Great scheme. Would love it to have more floors. However this is great.
By David
Liking this. Will tidy up that end of town and offer a proper gateway into the business district. I’m assuming build costs versus rental levels account for not going taller.
By Sceptical
The previous design looked much better than this.
By Anonymous
Wait till LCC get there hands on it
By Anonymous
Far inferior to previous plans. Again LCC insistence of stunting talls results in a stumpy block of a building. This is the right locations for something of good height.
By L17
Shame they can’t put one on top of the other for a 44 storey tower, nevertheless this is great news, and shows how we can re-populate the inner city with large projects like this that people choose to live in. As stated there is great infrastructure round there with Moorfields station and the tunnels, plus the waterfront.
By Anonymous
Oh good another half baked unfinished carbuncle to wreck liverpool.
By Anonymous
Welcome news that both sites will be developed after the delay from the original launch. Slightly disappointing that they are not as tall as the initial plans. Can PNW enquire if this is due to the market or the “cutting room” at LCC?
By Liverpool4Progress
Difficult to properly comment on design from CGI but I would have preferred the 48 storey tower in this location. I have to say though I really like the design of Copper House on the Strand and believe such a building would be a perfect fit for this area.
By David
Balconies though?….just thought I’d get it in.
By Balcony worrier
Not as good as ovatus proposals but then the developer was a load of hot air. This one seems more reliable and a very solid looking scheme that will add to general density.
By Anonymous
Anything is better than nothing in Liverpool but won’t hold my breathe if LCC are involved it will take years of planning downsizing and on and on .
By Anonymous
What happened to that beautiful high tower scheme of Dear .
By Anonymous
This site demands a 50 storey building.
By Packaged lowering.
Here we have what appears to be a reputable developer, if the council don’t mess them around too much they may also be tempted to build higher in the Central Docks or Baltic tall building zone, fingers crossed.
By Anonymous
20 storeys too high for this council and it’s backward planning department
By Anon1
This was originally the Ovatus site. It was tall and sleek. This will look like a wall as you are heading into the city from the north. It say’s so much about the new tall buildings policy. They stop the building of tall sleek towers and encourage wide smaller buildings like the Unity student development above Lime St that look like large walls.
By Bradman
Should be 50 Stories but this council don’t do ambition.
By Simon R
Needs to be at least 63 storeys here otherwise they are lacking in ambition
By Giant Skyscraper Fan
What a dreadful looking proposal. The 90’s called, they want their building back!
By Andrew
The people involved in this know what they’re doing and the commercial reality with it. If approved this one gets built end of.
By BDAY
Absolutely wasted opportunity
By Anonymous
Everyone knew Ovatus would never be built, a curved building in Liverpool!!? They were beautiful buildings though. This on the other hand, Liverpool can do better than this, massively better! I’m disappointed with the architects on this one, I’ve seen them do better. Where is the design in this? Looks like it’s an off-the-shelf plan from a 90’s discount store!
By Anonymous
This should of been passed under its orginal guise but some need to chill about towers. You don’t measure the success of a city in metres see Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh and most other major cities in Europe.
By Anonymous
19 and 25!!!! :’) oh my days, wasn’t Ovatus 27 and 50 storeys??? For anyone who hasn’t seen the previous design google “Ovatus Towers Liverpool” they had a fantastic scheme there, I cannot believe it has been substituted for this bland mid-rise block, it hasn’t even commenced yet and the plans already look dated.
By MB
Disappointing from the Planning Dept again.
By Look Honey, I shrunk the building!
Also Anonymous 12.54 see London, Moscow, Paris, Frankfurt…all have tall buildings as well as much more. No need to exclude them.
By Anonymous
@Anonymous Moscow and London are world capitals and Frankfurt is generally considered to be the most boring and least interesting of all German major cities.
By Anonymous
Come on Liverpool this is horrendous from a mancunion
By Anonymous
Frankfurt is one of the best cities in Germany, as the Germans well know
By Gilly
A Mancunion you say?. TBH I’ve seen better and I’ve seen worse. British architecture does need some radical reform though. An actual Mancunian.
By Anonymous
Indeed Anonymous 8.52. And Liverpool doesn’t need to become the least interesting and least developed of British cities. It’s called ambition, and Liverpool needs to regain some.
By Anonymous
Just knew those Ovatus proposals wouldn’t happen. CGI’s versus reality, seen it all before.
By See gee I
Sigh. I’m glad something is getting built but these are soul crushingly dull. More sim city generic filler. Try describing that building to someone who has never seen it. Do you think they’d be able to pick it out?
By Bland-Ady-Bland