Step Places lodges revised proposals for Alder Hey hospital site
Plots earmarked for 168 apartments and a 52,000 sq ft office building have been reacquired by the local NHS hospital trust, prompting the developer to rethink its plans.
Following the sale of the majority of the 6.4-acre former hospital site back to the NHS, Step Places has lodged a fresh set of plans for the land in its ownership.
Designed by BDP, Step Places revised plans are for plots three to nine, which, under the previous proposals, were earmarked for redevelopment into a total of 80 apartments and townhouses.
Some of these homes were aimed at elderly people and people with autism.
The revised application seeks permission for a total of 98 homes: 59 retirement apartments to be managed by McCarthy Stone, eight apartments for people with autism, and 31 townhouses.
Gerald Eve is advising Step Places on planning. To learn more about the scheme, search for application reference number 23F/1905 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Civic Engineers, QED, MAC Construction Consultants, Hydrock, HBV Group, McKee Associates, RJD Associates, SK Transport, ACA, and Box Architects make up the project team.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust selected Step Places as the preferred bidder for the Eaton Road site and the developer subsequently acquired the land, according to a planning statement by Gerald Eve.
Under plans lodged by Step Places in 2020 and approved by Liverpool City Council the following year, plots one and two of the former Alder Hey Hospital site in Knotty Ash have planning permission for apartments and a 52,000 sq ft NHS Trust office building.
The apartments would have been delivered across a quartet of three-to-five-storey blocks comprising 168 properties in total with around 10,000 sq ft of commercial space on the ground floor.
Now that the two plots have been sold back to the NHS, these elements of the scheme no longer feature within Step Places’ plans.
Because they benefit from the 2021 planning approval, the NHS could still bring plots one and two forward.
Needs to be well designed sitting next to Alder Hey hospital which is a fantastic looking building.
Wonder why the new schemes are limited to 5 storeys?
By Anonymous
IT WAS PROMISED: the “small portion” (whose definition?) of Springfield Park ‘acquired’ for the (admittedly, sorely needed) extension work at Alder Hey would be returned to use as public green space. A token ‘gesture’ was made, but nowhere NEAR as much as the open space we lost.
As a local Author, one of my books for children is set IN Springfield Park, a place I have loved since growing up there. Now, suddenly someone wants to BUILD on what still REMAINS of Springfield Park? This must NOT happen!
Paul McDermott Liverpool
By Paul McDermott
How much did Step Places pay for the land which was later sold back to the NHS?
How much did the NHS pay to buy it back?
By V Richards
I think it would be a bad idea to build on the site the traffic around our area is bad now it will be worse if approved. When the new hospital was built we were promised the land back as they took a lot of Springfield park to build on. It seems now that all the green space is disappearing to make way for building.
By Ann Hopkins