Peel’s £130m Millers Quay on track for 2024 completion
Graham Construction is on target to deliver 500 apartments at Northbank, next to Great Floats Docks, as part of the £4.5bn Wirral Waters project.
The built-to-rent scheme is being developed by Wirral Council and Peel L&P to feature a mix of one- and two-bedroom flats.
Designed by Glenn Howells Architects, Millers Quay will see the homes spread across six buildings.
Glenn Howells Architects designed the scheme. Credit: via IfWeRanTheZoo
The buildings have now reached the highest point in construction, following the appointment of Graham as contractor last February and the start of work in July.
Peter Reavey, regional director of Graham, said: “We are delighted to mark this significant milestone in the construction of the Miller’s Quay development.
“There has been a considerable amount of work carried out by the entire project team to reach this stage of construction.”
Pension Insurance Company is funding the £130m project.
James Agar, head of long income at PIC, said: “The development has been a model for how long-term investors can play a major role in the levelling up agenda.
“The site will provide much-needed housing for the Wirral and offers secure long-term cashflows to back the pensions of our 300,000 policyholders, many of whom live in the North West.”
Eden Planning is the scheme’s planning consultant. The project team also includes project manager RPS Group, landscape architect Re-Form, engineering consultant Jensen Hughes, and engineer Curtins.
Vectos is the transport consultant. Crooks Walker Consulting is the M&E consultant.
Millers Quay is just one part of the wider £4.5bn Wirral Waters regeneration project, which will see the redevelopment of 500 acres of former docklands. The masterplan will see 13,000 homes built over the next 30 years.
Leader of Wirral Council, Cllr Paul Stuart, said: “Millers Quay is an important part of Wirral’s wider regeneration ambitions, which stretch from Bromborough through Birkenhead and Wirral Waters, Seacombe, and Liscard to New Brighton, and shows how we are delivering on our brownfield-first approach to boosting the borough and providing homes, jobs, and prosperity.”
To find out more about the plans for Millers Quay, search for application number NMA/22/01489 on Wirral Council’s planning portal.
Well done Wirral, let’s look forward to similar developments in LW’s over to you Peel?
By Liverpolitis
Has the potential to be great. Like the aesthetic and fenestration.
By SW
LCR left bank is coming on great and more developments starting on Liverpool Waters soon
By Anonymous
Saw these in person last weekend, really impressive, and so much room in that dockland area for more homes, not forgetting of course that Birkenhead is still a working port.
By Anonymous
Now all we need is LW to get going, finish Princes Dock, get the cruise terminal sorted, high quality architecture, no random cladding please
By GetItBuilt!
The mothballed modular scheme next-door-but-one looks toy-town and utterly out of scale, by comparison. How on earth did the scheme get planning? It looks ridiculous next to the mighty old grain warehouses. Worth knocking down and starting again – at scale.
By Sceptical
@ Sceptical, look on the bright side, the modular houses already constructed are selling and Peel said they will finish the taller element at the rear. These dwellings are not “ridiculous” and you see similar types in Amsterdam, Copenhagen etc.
A bit of variety does you no harm.
By Anonymous
Superbe guys. You are rebuilding the dock cottages.
By Anonymous
Where is a shop,where is a petrol station, traffic chaos to tunnel,motorway and Birkenhead and wait till bridge opens.
By B.Hughed
Remember the initial renders / plans that showed a dazzling array of skyscrapers? I can’t help but feel this development is underwhelming after seeing those. I know the plans are realistic and beneficial, but do you ever just think what if? Imagine the businesses that could have been attracted and the wealth created. Imagine the skyline of Merseyside if both the original Liverpool Waters and Wirral waters plans were built!
By MC
Well wirral on a bold design and not forcing everything to look like a blag warehouse.
By Anonymous
It’s a pity some of this capital expenditure was not used to repair and repaint all the rotting swing bridges and the world famous Barton aqueduct along the Peel holdings owned Manchester ship canal. For they are a national disgrace.
By Rundle robbertson
Will there be detrimental height restrictions across the Mersey too ?
By Anonymous
New York started as low-rise and evolved into high-rise, it doesn’t happen from the off. Yes Peel have been frustratingly slow but once these things gather momentum it gets better , and hopefully that’s where we are heading.
By Anonymous
Superb Development..Can we have this in Liverpool Please
By John Lynn