Sourced secures unanimous consent for 500 Love Lane homes
Liverpool City Council has granted planning permission to the developer for the £110m scheme, which comprises four separate residential blocks.
Designed by BDP, Sourced Developments and Network Rail’s Love Lane scheme proposes the creation of 507 apartments across blocks rising to 11 storeys.
The project will deliver 147 one-bedroom homes, 330 with two bedrooms, and 30 three-bed apartments. 145 of the flats are earmarked for affordable tenures.
Disused railway arches on the northern plots will be kept for commercial use and storage, while those still in use beneath the live rail viaduct will also be kept and used for commercial floorspace.
All four blocks will have enclosed communal courtyards with commercial, retail, and communal uses factored into a ground floor plinth, with residential use on the upper floors.
Both sites, located near the Ten Streets regeneration area, add up to four acres and are owned by Network Rail.
Joanne Waller, managing director at Sourced Developments said the Love Lane scheme embodies the firm’s approach.
“Our ethos as developers [is] transforming unused land into beautiful homes and contributing to creating a thriving, vibrant community,” she said.
“We are proud to be part of this larger vision to deliver positive outcomes for housing needs, provision of jobs, and contribute to economic growth in our city.”
As well as architect and landscape architect BDP, the project team features WSP, Wardell Armstrong, SKTP, Simply CDM, Rachel Hacking Ecology, OFR, and Steven A Hunt & Associates.
To view the application, search for reference number 23F/2052 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Love Lane is by no means Sourced’s only live project.
Sourced is also delivering the 612-apartment Westminster Park, a site the firm acquired from Greg Malouf. Sourced has completed the first 56 units but future phases are “temporarily on hold” while the developer waits for a power line that runs through the site to be rerouted.
Work is due to kick off again next month, according to Sourced.
In Salford, the developer is on site with the 525-flat Regent Plaza off Regent Road. The first phase, a 93-apartment block, completed last year.
The development would see four vacant plots redeveloped into homes. Credit: via planning documents
Good news for another up and coming area.
By Liverpool4Progress
Great use of heritage infrastructure via the retention of the railway arches, great use of density and potential for multi-modal transport links via the Northern Line and Great Howard Street, a visually striking development that evokes the areas industrial roots, and to top of it all off plenty of affordable units within it. Positives all round. Will people on here poke holes in it? You betcha!
By Anonymous
I really want to see this happen but Sourced have a number of schemes in Liverpool either partly commenced or not started at all. Fingers crossed then that this will be a goer, and all their other schemes get back on track too.
By Anonymous
Great to see contemporary design and some ambition for this district + more positive planning from LCC
By LEighteen
Great news again
By Anonymous
This design looks interesting. It’s about time that area was redeveloped.
By Andrew
This looks like a well worked design. With continued regeneration heading north (Ten Streets, Tobacco Warehouse, Isle of Man Ferry, Bramley Moore etc.) I wonder if access to the city centre via a tram(!) loop may cross their minds. I’m aware the tram issue has rumbled on for decades but as a baby step this would be a good start.
By CJ
Sourced have empty plots all over the city. Not holding my breath on this.
By Roy
Quit it with the moaning ROY!
This is good news!
By Dr Ian Buildings
Their Westminster Park development is stalled and the plot is a tip! It doesn’t fill me with any confidence.
Dan Whelan, would it be a good time to ask them about their other developments on the back of this announcement?
By Roy
Hi Roy! Ask and you shall receive. This story has been updated with progress on Sourced’s other projects.
By Julia Hatmaker
Great news, I was really hoping this would be approved. Sourced has done a great job of rounding up disused space and transforming it. Looking forward to see this come to life
By Liverpool1985
Thank you Julia. Proper journalism!
By Roy
Have the works for the power line begun yet?
By Just saying