The founder of the company behind Liverpool’s tallest building, West Tower, is planning to open a new restaurant on Lark Lane.

Hugh Frost of the Beetham Organisation wants to replace a set of garages on the popular South Liverpool street with a 72-cover eatery.

According to a document included with the planning application submitted to Liverpool City Council, the 12 garages are “outdated, poorly maintained and, it is understood, disused”.

The proposed scheme from Hugh, which has been submitted under Panoramic 34 Holdings, also includes two apartments facing onto Ivanhoe Road.

Proposed Lark Lane street view © Edge Architects

The ground floor of the development would be occupied by a new restaurant fronting onto Lark Lane, with the first and second floors each featuring a single two-bedroom apartment accessed from Ivanhoe Road.

Edge Architects, which designed the interiors of apartments at Beetham’s West Tower, as well as acting as delivery architect on the Panoramic 34 restaurant, has produced designs for the project.

Proposed Ivanhoe Road street view © Edge Architects

The 40-storey West Tower usurped the Radio City Tower as Liverpool’s tallest building when construction completed in 2007.

The skyscraper’s lower floors act as the headquarters for the Beetham Organisation, with the remaining floors – apart from the 34th, which is home to Panoramic 34 – divided into luxury apartments and penthouses.

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