New residential blocks forming part of Liverpool’s Paddington Village scheme could be scaled back following a public consultation into the project.
Responding to feedback given during the process, Liverpool City Council has amended its Spatial Regeneration Framework (SRF) which will set out key principles and design parameters for the project moving forward.
According to a document set to go before cabinet members on Friday (17 February) as the SRF is put forward for final approval, the reduction in size of some residential elements of Paddington Village is among a number of changes to have been made.
The report, which suggests that overall feedback during the consultation was “positive”, says: “Overall buildings’ heights across Paddington Village have been revised including the removal of the proposed landmark tower building and a reduction of maximum height at the crossroads of Mount Vernon Street and Grove Street.”
Further detail highlights a reduction in size of the two-four storey residential blocks on the eastern edges of Paddington North, and the maximum height at the cross roads of Mount Vernon and Grove Street is now 12-15 storeys.
The creation of the mixed-use Paddington Village community will transform the former site of Archbishop Blanch School and forms part of the city’s wider multi-billion pound Knowledge Quarter regeneration.
Other key developments within the site will include Kaplan International’s new live and learn education facility, which is due to start on site during mid-2017, with completion expected in January 2019.
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is also planning to open its RCP North ‘Clinical Centre for Excellence’ within Paddington Village.
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Pathetic. Another watered down Liverpool scheme. It’s another example of why the city need’s new leadership and a clear strategy for what it want’s to be in the future. We don’t need ‘villages’ in central Liverpool, we need major commercial investment of the kind we see frequently in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and London. If we want to remain a major city we need to start acting and thinking like one.
I agree whole heartedley with you Michael. Liverpool can only move forward in getting ‘major commercial investment’ by thinking big. If Liverpool is to attract big fish investment, then small time
thinking is just not good enough, it needs gutsy thinking and to say NO to these people who water down these promising schemes. In this once great world city of ours, the people
who built places like the Three Graces and the Culture Quarter, just got on with it in spite of the many opponents to them, and these same kind of narrow thinking opponents of today fight
tooth and nail to protect these places just mentioned!?!? The city leaders of today need the strategy that city leaders of the past had – Big fishing nets for big fish investment.