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Pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers plans to transform a Liverpool city centre building into a new hotel. The firm has put forward proposals to convert the upper floors of the Queens Building in Derby Square, creating accommodation above its All Bar One venue. With a portfolio including the bar chain ... Read More...
Controversial plans to turn a former Wavertree High Street pub into supported accommodation could be approved next week. Purpose built as a police station in 1879, the building was later occupied by a dancing school in the 1970s, Villa Rossa Restaurants in the 1980s, Cuffs Bar during 1990s/2000s and most recently ... Read More...
Great George Street Developments has submitted revised plans to transform the Liverpool site formerly known as New Chinatown. A vision for a new neighbourhood of residents and businesses between the city’s existing Baltic Triangle and Georgian Quarter has been unveiled. The Great George Street Project will see work resume this winter on ... Read More...
Two applications to convert Waterloo offices into apartments have been dismissed on appeal by the Planning Inspectorate. The separate applications both proposed that existing workspace at 1-3 Crosby Road South be converted and extended to provide 30 and 32 homes respectively. DPP Planning submitted both sets of plans earlier this year on ... Read More...
A vintage market, café and creative workshop could transform a vacant warehouse in Liverpool’s Ten Streets area if plans are approved. The proposed venue in the emerging district would also have space outside for occasional street food units and seating. Liverpool City Council’s planning committee will consider the plans for the Cotton ... Read More...
Plans are in for the first homes to be built by Liverpool City Council’s new ‘ethical housing company’, Foundations. Developer Lovell Homes, which was named as the chosen contractor for the scheme in June, has submitted a detailed planning application for 107 properties on behalf of the initiative. If approved, two, three ... Read More...
More than 170 new apartments have been given the go-ahead for a Kirkdale Road site in Liverpool. Fast Growth Homes, based in the city, is behind the project which will also include ground floor commercial space. Liverpool City Council’s planning committee approved the five and six-storey development for a vacant site during ... Read More...
Plans for a ‘world class visitor attraction’, café/bar and a new restaurant at Liverpool’s Royal Liver Building have been revealed. The proposals form part of multiple newly submitted applications to carry out renovations at the Grade I-listed waterfront landmark. The overall scheme would mark phase two of updating the iconic building, which ... Read More...
Plans for a £100 million development of more than 550 new waterfront homes have been submitted to Liverpool City Council. Four seven to 12-storey buildings are proposed for the city’s Brunswick Quay with their appearance said to be influenced by the “rich maritime and industrial history” of the area. An application was ... Read More...