PLANNING | Liverpool poised to approve 900 flats
Liverpool City Council’s planning committee met this morning to discuss an agenda dominated by residential schemes, and has given the green light to major projects including an £80m tower at Princes Dock.
APPROVED
The Lexington, Princes Dock
Developer: Moda Living, funded by Apache Capital
Floors: 34
Value: £80m
Flats: 304 for the private rented sector
Amenity: 15,000 sq ft
Architect: Falconer Chester Hall
Block 5, The Quarter
Location: Sefton Street
Developer: X1 and Vermont Construction
Flats: 196
Floors: 25
Architect: Falconer Chester Hall
The Lofts
Location: Low Hill Street, next to new Royal Liverpool Hospital
Developer: The Lofts and Deutsche Pad
Floors: Seven
Flats: 321 flats for private rent, 75 self-contained student flats, and 13 student cluster flats containing 61 bedspaces
Office units: Four
Architect: Brock Carmichael
One Arthouse Square
Developer: Signature Living
Project: Office to hotel conversion
Rooms: 39
Smashin..
By Man on bicycle
UPDATE: Adds new image of The Lofts design
By Paul Unger
The Moda scheme looks stunning, lets hope it happens! (The Sefton Street one, sadly, less-so).
By zebith
The updated image of The Lofts, is very disappointing and cheap looking. At least the original one had some character about it.
It reminds me somewhat of past tenement buildings.
By Man on bicycle
The Moda scheme at Princes Dock will be a fantastic addition to the central Waterfront area.
The massing at the Sefton Street/Parliament Street nodal point is perfect for that location and will set a new scale for the area leading further along the Waterfront as well as towards New Chinatown.
By Alfie
The Lofts would benefit from a facelift; it doesn’t really look lofty!
That said, if developer contributions can be made available to refurbish Grant Gardens, it would be great! It looks too windswept these days!
By Anon
Both schemes look stunning in my opinion.
By Jon
I see that the Lofts has now been christened the “Berlin Wall” by the locals, truly inspiring and sure to attract residents to live there.
This is what happens when developers cut corners and build cheaply, it may even surpass the dreadful Baltic Village as the worst new building in the City.
By Man on bicycle