Plans in for Liverpool shipping container hotel
Branded Snoozebox, the 56-bed project is planned for a site located at the heart of Cains Brewery Village between Boxpark and Bongo’s Bingo for the next 15 years.
Plans from Portable Living Group have been submitted for a hotel made from 25 shipping containers that also features food and drink provision and an entertainment/music venue in retained buildings on the north of the Beaufort Street site in the Liverpool leisure district.
The hotel will provide “quality accommodation for tourists and business customers on a budget, with a particular focus on attracting millennials and young people”, according to planning documents submitted with the application by Halliday Fraser Munro
The moveable, demountable make-up of the scheme means it could be removed once the 15-year period for which planning is sought expires. The site is earmarked for a multi-storey car park in the original Cains Brewery Village masterplan.
Portable Living Group has also delivered hotels at the Eden Project in Cornwall and an 80-bed scheme for workers at Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands.
To learn more about the Liverpool project, search for reference number 25F/0539 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
What in the Black Mirror is this?
By Heritage Action
Sounds good “urban glamping” this will be popular, even more so once that Baltic Station gets built, the planning application went in late last year,over 4 months ago, but not surprisingly it’s still to come before committee.
By Anonymous
From the Baltic Triangle to Port Stanley 🤣
By Paul Blackburne
Interesting how in such a short space of time plonking old shipping containers on vacant sites has gone from a meanwhile use to something semi-permanent.
What may be good for short-term housing for workers on the Falkland Islands – probably still fairly grim – isn’t good enough for the centre a major city like Liverpool.
A current theme in Liverpool seems to be often-absentee bargain basement developers looking for ways to avoid building anything of any quality at all while taking as much money out as possible, whether it’s putting up rubbish PBSA and then asking for change of use, carving up office space under Permitted Development to get around minimum space standards, or now stuff like this.
By Rotringer
I have stayed three times at snoozebox in London, they are spotless and have all you need for a stay, yes they are small so they are not really intended for you spend a lot of time just sitting in and watching TV, but the one in London had bars, lounge areas, and food counters.
By James
This is a professional outfit doing more of what they’ve done in London, Cornwall, and yes The Falklands. They aren’t hiding away from what their product is, but it seems to be quality, albeit a bit left field.
Don’t really understand the silly sniggering and negative comments, just shows small-minded some people are, maybe they need to get out a bit.
By Anonymous