Plans to build 10 flats on a disused bowling green at Aigburth Peoples Hall have been rejected.

Developers wanted to transform the plot to the south of the well-known venue which sits in the Sefton Park Conservation Area.

APH Signature Construction Ltd submitted proposals in January which included a mix of two and three-bedroom properties across a four-storey development.

Liverpool City Council’s planning department has refused to grant planning consent for the project on the grounds that development would not “preserve or enhance the character and appearance of the conservation area”.

All three Mossley Hill Ward councillors objected to the proposals, citing a number of reasons including the loss of sunlight for neighbouring properties and problems with traffic congestion.

A council planning document refusing permission reads: “Whilst the hall has never had a typical residential-villa use, the bowling green in its garden has always been a very important element of its role in providing indoor and outdoor pursuits in support of temperance.

“ The expression of its [the hall’s] temperance role purpose, as demonstrated by the bowling green, is considered to have significance within the conservation area.

“As such, the permanent loss of the bowling green would create an unacceptable loss of an important historical feature within the conservation area.”

Aigburth Peoples Hall, which was built in 1900 and influenced by the Jacobean Revival, operates as a space for weddings and events as well as community groups and sports teams.

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