Plans to create 507 new apartments on land at Love Lane and Pall Mall have been recommended for approval by Liverpool City Council’s planning committee.

Proposals for the scheme from applicant Chris Boles of Love Lane (Liverpool) Limited include the erection of four residential blocks across four seperate plots and the repurposing of adjacent railway arches for commercial use.

The apartments will be a mix one, two and three-bed units. Apartments within plots one, two and three are to be for private sale or rent, with apartments at plot four proposed as affordable homes.

All four plots have been laid out as perimeter blocks around enclosed communal courtyards with commercial, retail and communal uses integrated into a ground floor plinth and residential use on the upper floors.

The outlined plots are currently occupied predominantly by surface car parks, vacant buildings and a number of units which are built within the railway arches, housing businesses such as a car repairs garage, a gym and a small music venue.

The plots are bound on their western edge by the raised railway viaduct and railway arches. The railway line serves the Northern Line connecting Moorfields station with Southport, Ormskirk and Kirkby.

A report recommending the project for approval at next week’s planning committee meeting reads: “The proposed development offers a large scale, comprehensively masterplanned development that has the potential to contribute positively to the regeneration of the Pumpfields neighbourhood, the city centre and the adjoining Ten Streets regeneration area.

“This scheme constitutes a significant development to physically extend the Love Lane – Pall Mall corridor into the Future City Centre and Waterfront Area.

“At over 500 homes it is an opportunity to showcase the extension of Liverpool’s city centre with an exemplary mixed-use scheme and comprehensive housing provision.

“The proposals for four new perimeter blocks are of a characterful and lasting design, aiming to provide future residents with flats of high quality. The scheme repurposes the heritage on site and exhibits design integrity.

“The public space created by the development, namely the green pedestrian route, would be of city wide significance as it connects well into the city centre, and further afield towards Pumpfields, Ten Streets, and Liverpool Waters.”

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