Three secure Liverpool approvals

A 65-bed capacity nursing home and 84 apartments across two schemes have been rubber-stamped by the city council’s planning committee.

Considered at a session that took around four hours – half of it occupied by Liverpool FC’s controversial Anfield Road closure – there was little dissent around the projects.

McGoff Group Projects and the McGoff group’s Dunham Care arm sought a green light (reference 24F/2084) for a 65-bed residential care nursing home, on land to the rear of the Childwall Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, off Dunbabin Road.

The Greater Manchester business is working with Garner Planning and Street Design Partnership on a project that is part two- and part three-storey, with 27 parking spaces.

Due to falling attendance figures, the synagogue will be demolished and replaced by a smaller building on the front portion of the site.

Affordable housing provider Sanctuary (reference 25F/2747) is looking to redevelop the former Arundel Park care home site off Sefton Park Road in a part four- and part-five storey project, comprising 36 apartments.

Twenty five one-bed flats and 11 two-bed flats are inked in for the scheme, which will be 100% social rent. The 1996-built care home has been disused for four years.

Ahead of the meeting, officers summed up that the scheme “facilitates the reuse of a vacant and underutilised brownfield site within a sustainable urban location” adding that “the development would create a high-quality residential environment, incorporating private amenity space, communal gardens and accessible design features”.

Euan Kellie Property Solutions is the planning consultant and Brock Carmichael the architect. Arbtech and BCA Landscape are also on the team.

The site overlooks a park off Whitefield Road. Credit: planning documents

In Anfield, local firm PSD Group (reference 25F/2188) has proposed a four-storey block and two three-storey blocks, offering a combined total of 48 apartments.

The Back Belmont Road site sits within the Belmont Road mixed-use area in planning terms, making residential compatible with surrounding uses.

Sitting alongside the Whitefield Road recreation ground, the site is mostly cleared, with a former dairy building occupying a small part of it.

Revival Architecture and Baltic PDC are advising.

Officers said: “Whilst the proposal would result in the loss of vacant commercial buildings, the site is not designated as safeguarded employment land and no active businesses would be displaced.

“Significant weight is afforded to the benefits of bringing a vacant and underutilised brownfield site back into productive use and delivering 48 new homes, including affordable housing provision, within an established urban area.”