Robbie Fowler-backed Liverpool resi revived
ASBBJ Real Estate UK has taken control of a stalled apartment project off St Anne’s Street and lodged revised plans for its redevelopment.
The two-acre site close to the Merseyside Police HQ has previously been the subject of two approved planning applications for 313 and 325 flats but no work has ever taken place on site.
In 2020, former Liverpool footballer Robbie Fowler announced his involvement in the scheme in partnership with Elatus Homes and his image appeared on hoardings around the site. It is unclear if he is still involved.
St Annes Street Limited, an SPV that lists Elatus’ sole director Robert Taylor and former Liverpool footballer Sean Highdale as directors, lodged plans designed by RBA Studio for a 300-apartment scheme in 2020.
However, that application was refused and in June 2023 the site was put up for sale.
Canary Wharf-based ASBBJ has taken control of the plot and is now seeking planning consent for a scheme branded as Angel Gardens, comprising 254 apartments across two blocks of six and seven storeys.
The project would feature a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments with the majority – 165 units – offering a single bedroom.
ASBBJ is headed up by Christopher Whetstone, who is also the managing director of agency Flambard Williams, which is selling the apartments off-plan, advertising returns of between 7% and 10% for investors.
JWPC is advising ASBBJ on the proposals and Lawray Architects is leading on design.
To learn more about the scheme, search for application reference number 24F/3416 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
It will be interesting to see if that mix – primarily single bedrooms – gets support from LCC’s planning department, who seem obsessed with families moving into city centre apartments.
By Anonymous
Looks a nice scheme so hopefully the developer can deliver as this would chime with the music the City Council is making about upgrading and re-populating the area around Great Homer Street and Scotland Rd.
As ever the potential is there and something needs to be done to kickstart some of the stalled schemes along Scotland Rd and Stanley Rd,
By Anonymous
Selling off plan with guaranteed returns, what could go wrong….
By Little Joe
Great scheme 🙂
By Balcony Warrior
Quality Brick Buildings and Less of the Cheap Looking Tin Panels Please..
By John Lynn
Much needed apartments in the city centre
By Anonymous
@John Lynn, I don’t see any tin panels on the renders shown, I think you need to realise too that the Liverpool Head of Planning dictates to developers what materials she wants on many of the buildings proposed in this City. You only have to look in the Baltic Triangle to see it’s just brick, brick, and more brick, and it’s just monotonous, designers are just not given the freedom to express themselves in this City.
By Anonymous