See the plans for new two-tower residential development in Liverpool City Centre

Liverpool City Council planning committee is set to rule on Packaged Living for two-tower residential developments on Old Hall Street.

The application for the towers, of 19 and 25 storeys respectively, will be heard by the committee on Tuesday 11^th November.

Occupying the site of the former Littlewoods computer centre at the junction of Old Hall Street and Leeds Street, the planned scheme will deliver 434 high-quality, professionally-managed private rented homes. The scheme introduces new public realm to create a sense of place and will provide a designated cycle and pedestrian route to its perimeter.  The scheme would be brought forward in partnership with Affinius Capital.

The proposed development would provide extensive resident amenities, including lounges, co-working areas, a gym and entertaining spaces, with an emphasis on best-in-class energy efficiency.  The building design focuses on sustainable solutions and incorporates all-electric heating with air source heat pumps, heat recovery systems and a focus on car free modes of transport.   

Edwina Coward, Development Manager for Packaged Living, said the extensive public consultation held prior to the scheme’s submission demonstrated an appreciation by local people of the value of high-quality design.

Edwina commented:

“The scheme introduces a landmark development at this prominent northern gateway site and introduces much-needed homes within walking distance from the waterfront and the city centre. The public consultation response was overwhelmingly in favour and we made a number of changes in light of people’s constructive suggestions.  It’s a better scheme as a result”.

improvements made as a consequence of the public’s feedback included:

• Increased active frontage at ground floor through increased glazing to elevations, improving natural surveillance within the area as a result
• Upgrade to existing city cycle route through the introduction of a designated cycle and pedestrian route to the north of the site
• Further articulation to elevation treatment through high-quality material application
• Enhanced planting and lighting strategy to public realm

Architect Adam Hall of Falconer Chester Hall says the development’s materials take their inspiration from the predominant use of white Portland stone across the business district.

“This is a confident piece of modern design and it shows respect to Liverpool’s commercial heritage through its use of white stone, which we see all around Old Hall Street and the other key routes in the city’s business district.”

The scheme is on the site of the former Blundell & Sons coal yard, which serviced barges using the adjacent terminus of the Leeds – Liverpool canal, which ran past the site and around the corner onto Old Hall Street.  The listed former lock-keepers’ cottages, built in 1800, now form part of the Radisson Blu hotel development and are the only remaining evidence of the canal’s presence this far into the city centre.

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