Liverpool’s Florence Institute has received a national accolade at the Historic England Angel Awards 2018.The building, affectionately known as ‘The Florrie’, won in the Best Rescue of a Historic Building or Place category during a ceremony last night (27 November).The awards were hosted by historian Bettany Hughes at the Gillian ... Read More...
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Liverpool City Council’s planning committee will rule on plans to convert the Municipal Buildings into a four-star hotel next week (30 October).Singapore-based Fragrance Group Limited (FGL) purchased the Grade II*-listed Dale Street landmark last year.The property developer submitted plans in June for a 189-room hotel as well as a swimming pool ... Read More...
Five sites in Liverpool are to be officially recognised today as places which witnessed acts of suffragette protest.Locations include St George’s Hall where a local suffragette hid in an organ loft to disturb an MP’s speech and Sefton Park Palm House which activists tried to bomb.The Department for Digital, Culture, ... Read More...
The public can have their say today (21 March) on the future of historic Liverpool building the Wellington Rooms.Ideas to resurrect the 202-year-old, Grade II*-listed building are being displayed for the first time as part of a consultation event.Merseyside Building Preservation Trust (MBPT) is hosting the session between 10am and ... Read More...
Plans to transform a Grade II-listed warehouse on Duke Street into a restaurant and offices have been revealed.An applicant with a “proven track record of delivering high quality mixed-use schemes across the city” is behind the proposals for Humyak House.John Hughes of D St Commercial Limited has submitted the plans to ... Read More...
A relaunch party will be held at Liverpool's famous Bombed Out Church this month to mark the beginning of a new era for the Grade II*-listed building.Two special concerts of The Beatles’ 'Sgt Pepper' album to tie in with the city’s 50th anniversary celebrations of the landmark LP will take place in ... Read More...
Talks are continuing over who will operate Liverpool’s iconic St Luke’s Church when essential repair work to the Grade II-listed building is completed later this year.Discussions between Liverpool City Council and the Bombed Out Church organisation, which has run events at the multi-use arts venue since 2007, are taking place ... Read More...
The approval of a new £50 million Baltic Triangle apartment scheme gives “greater clarity” on how future proposals will be viewed for the district, according to the developer.Elliot Group’s plan for 253 homes and an ‘entrepreneurial hub’ was given the go-ahead at Liverpool City Council’s planning committee meeting yesterday (19 ... Read More...
A search for an operator to run the St Luke’s ‘Bombed Out’ Church when it reopens later this year has begun.The chosen party is expected to take over in December following the completion of essential repair work.The successful applicant will need to show that they can run a financially viable ... Read More...
Liverpool Council’s decision to renovate the Ogden’s Imperial Tobacco factory office has relieved Historic England and Brock Carmichael to finally start the conversion work.The original Queen Anne-style 19th century office buildings are Grade II-listed and will therefore remain and be converted into 19 apartments with internal and external works but ... Read More...
