PLANNING | Liverpool approves 304 homes, Lidl and aparthotel
Regenda Group’s large Grove Street Estate plan was greenlit at Tuesday’s meeting, along with Lidl GB’s petition to build a store by Great Homer Street and a proposal for a 33-unit aparthotel off Castle Street.
Grove Street Estate
Change is coming to the 3.7-acre Grove Street Estate now that Liverpool City Council has granted planning permission to housing association The Regenda Group, which aims to demolish the existing buildings on site and build 304 homes. Of those 304 homes, 144 will be social rent apartments and three will be affordable rent. There will also be 84 rent-to-buy apartments, 50 market apartments and 23 private-sale townhouses.
The homes will be stretched out across five plots, named Grove Way, Grovelands Court, Grove Close Pavilions, Groveside Villa and Crabtree Terrace.
The project team for the Grove Estate includes architect Shedkm, BCA Landscape Architects and Metropolitan Workshop.
The Lidl proposal will be delivered in two phases: the store is first, the Tim Hortons is second. Credit: via planning documents
Land at Great Homer Street
Lidl and Tim Horton’s are coming to the Everton ward. The grocery store secured planning approval to build a roughly 20,000 sq ft store and, later, a 2,800 sq ft Tim Hortons drive-thru restaurant. Set on three acres off Great Homer Street and north of Jennifer Avenue, the Lidl will have 113 car parking spaces.
The project team includes One Design Architects and Plan A.
19 Castle Street
Planning permission for Prosperity Castle Street Development’s 33-unit aparthotel was approved in December 2019, pending an S106 agreement. That legal agreement has now been made ready, but because of the time difference between the approval and now the application had to go back before the planning committee. It passed.
Under the approved plans, the vacant office building will become an aparthotel with a residents’ lounge, reception area and several units designed for those who have ambulatory disabilities.
The project team includes Paul Butler Associates and Cartwright Pickard. WSP was the planning consultant for the original 2019 application.
Will there be any bungalows on this site for the disabled
By Joyce barlow
Anyone ever thought to build a good shopping centre in Marion Sq Netherton? There is no good local food shops in the area except Aldi
By E Price
It’s good to another Lidl in Liverpool. These are what the city needs to provide jobs.
By Ted
Grove street excellent scheme…..but note still no office building!
By George
The Grove Street project will be a fantastic template for future housing in the direct inner-city core, these are great designs and give value for money on prime central-city land.
Hopefully now the mistakes of the 1980s and 90s ,when totally inappropriate suburban houses and bungalows were built on prime land in the inner city, have been learnt, and proper and thoughtfully designed town houses will be provided along with mid and high-rise apartments worthy of a city like Liverpool.
By Anonymous
Still no new build offices.
By Sid
Anon – great point. We now have some very strange urban landscape on the thriving city fringes, e.g. around Baltic and around Tithebarn Street which could be deployed so much more effectively than low-rise dross.
By Brookside
Will there be any disabled on this site for the bungalows
By Get Real
I agree with Joyce! We need affordable bungalow’s for the elderly not fancy apartments and office’s for the youngsters!!
By Mary Woolley
Large scale demolition yet again instead of retrofit here. Liverpool’s declaration of a ‘climate emergency’ again looking like spin. The embodied carbon of the Grove Street Estate now to be released into the atmosphere. Do what you like, but give us a break on the rhetoric!
By Anonymous
@Ted more to Liverpool than Lidl mate
By Anonymous
From the above comments it sounds like Liverpool is becoming a retirement village.
By Prosper
I can not wait for the Lidl shop to be built here, new affordable homes for young people to start their families and plan a good future for themselves with the right to buy home, this is a welcoming project for those area and the people with job opportunities too.
By Diana Bower
Hideous architecture
By John