Sinergy progresses latest Liverpool apartment scheme
The developer has tabled proposals for a 117-flat scheme on nearby Great Richmond Street, having lodged plans for a 30-apartment project on the corner of Richmond Row and Fox Street earlier this year.
Altrincham-based Sinergy Group is working with architect Brock Carmichael on plans for a six-storey development on land currently occupied by warehouses.
The developer wants to knock down the brick-built industrial buildings to pave the way for a six-storey apartment block comprising a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom flats.
The scheme has been in the pipeline for several months and has gone through various design iterations. In September 2023, when the first pre-app meeting with Liverpool City Council took place, Sinergy presented a nine-storey 163-home development.
The developer has subsequently scaled the project back in line with officer comments.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number 24F/2898 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Zerum is advising Sinergy on planning matters.
Sinergy’s directors also owned a fire-damaged, half-built 138-apartment Liverpool block within nearby Fox Street Village. The firm is seeking consent from Liverpool City Council to restart the construction of the block. The authority’s planning committee will meet next week to determine an application for the recommencement of the scheme.
OMG here we go again, submitted plans for 9 storeys but too high, now cut to 6, but why, how can developers make money in Liverpool.
This has been rumbling on for 14 months, who is guiding the planning department, why don`t these developers appeal to Angela Rayner, she wants homes built to reach their targets, this city council needs exposing as timewasters who are holding back the city.
Very few serious plans coming through on the council planning portal and anything that does is never right for these planners or the committee.
By Anonymous
There’s a lot of potential around that L3 postcode so I am happy to see someone is actually doing something around there. That derelict frame on Fox street was an eye sore so I’m glad to see they have demolished it and submitted a fresh planning application. I get nobody likes ‘Developers’ but at least somebody is doing something about it… Liverpool planning need to stop putting barriers up and get these sites moving.
By Lydia
What is the slightest issue with 9 stories here? Impossible to not feel so down about Liverpool at the moment, feels like we will never get out of our own way
By Anonymous
Pathetic from the planning department to chop this down to 6 stories. Please ask questions of them at the upcoming PNW event.
By Anonymous
9 stories becomes unfeasible due to the recent introduction of the Building Safety Act – making residential buildings above 6 stories and 17 meters categorised as High risk buildings (HRB’s). HRB’s are a can of worms to get into for an additional 3 stories.
By Anonymous
It has been reduced in height because of concerns by “Friends of the Firmament” who believe it might scrap it.
By Bashar
I think this looks pretty good. The streets are very narrow, if we want the whole area to be successfully developed a lower overall height is probably beneficial, otherwise it wont be very nice to live in.
I get the impression all the angry people on here that demand additional storeys at every opportunity, will never have to live in a single sided flat and haven’t thought about why very tall buildings in very close proximity might not make for a great living environment.
By Dr Ian Buildings
6 storeys… hahahahaha.
Come on Liverpool sort it out.
By Mike
@ Dr Buildings, since when was 9 storeys a “very tall” building, I assume you`ve travelled, and even seen expensive parts of London, where people live happily in taller blocks than this.
By Anonymous
I was talking about its height relative to the street width. The streets that this proposal fronts onto are incredibly narrow.
I don’t know why all the, I assume, old men get so cross in the comments section. Obviously people live in tall towers, but I think we can all agree that living in a tall tower along the Thames is very different to a tall tower in Kowloon.
By Dr Ian Buildings
I’d question whether 9 storeys should be considered a “tower” let alone a tall one.
By Anonymous
Never heard of this company. Will they deliver or are they another Fox Street?
By Verum
The concert stairway with the red gate and railings won’t weather well, and will look very “dated” in about decade. More consideration and effort should go into these designs. As a city why do we have to suffer such bad designs? I hope the architects read this comment.
By LordLiverpool
This is an awful design. Liverpool really does have to do better than this. Liverpool is still relatively underdeveloped compared with other cities in Europe. When the City does try to do something the quality of the developments are pretty poor.
By Anonymous
@ Anon 2.05pm , why do you think Liverpool is underdeveloped compared to other European cities. Well for one we’ve had a council that is awkward to deal with in terms of accepting planning applications , they also have height restrictions which may put off big developers, they also insist on buildings looking like ones in the area or with a nod to the maritime past. Therefore big developers shy away and that leaves those who are not so financially strong and may not be able to afford top quality design and finish on their building proposals. So in a number of cases it’s a case of erecting a not so classy building now or wait decades for someone else with money to invest. Put it this way if you were hungry and hadn’t eaten for weeks and preferred a finely cooked steak but only beans were on offer I bet you’d take the beans.
By Anonymous