The regeneration of Liverpool’s historic Wellington Rooms has moved a step closer after a detailed study into the condition of the building was ordered.

It’s expected that the report’s recommendations will form the basis for a bid to Historic England and other funders to help pay for the cost of the building’s redevelopment.

Partners involved in the scheme – Liverpool City Council, Merseyside Building Preservation Trust, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have appointed Salford-based OMI Architects to carry out the report.

The Grade II*-listed building, situated on Mount Pleasant, could be turned into an innovation hub to provide entrepreneurship training and space for new businesses to develop and network.

Plans were approved for the Wellington Rooms to become a function suite in 2002 but never came to fruition, while an application for it to become a hotel in 2006 and 2007 was rejected because of the damaging effect of a three-storey extension.

Mark Kitts, Liverpool City Council’s assistant director for regeneration, says: “The Wellington Rooms is right at the top of our priority list for action. It has an amazing history and is hugely important to the people of the city.

“We are only at the start of what will be a long journey to return it back to its former glory, but we are now starting to make progress in working with partners to identify a deliverable a sustainable end use.”

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