A year after it secured planning approval from Liverpool City Council, a £100m development comprising 434 apartments in the city centre can finally go ahead. Tony McDonough reports

Developer Packaged Living can finally crack on with a £100m development in Liverpool city centre after clearing the final planning hurdle.

In November 2025 the city’s planning committee gave the green light to the project which comprises two residential towers – rising to 19 and 25 storeys – and comprising 434 apartments.

There will be 302 apartments in the taller tower – 150 one-bedroom, 146 two-bedroom and six with three bedrooms each. The shorter tower will offer 132 apartments including 65 one-bedroom, 63 two-bedroom and four with three bedrooms.

However, before work could go ahead the developer and the council still had to agree what is called a Section 106 agreement. This requires a developer to provide funding for works to benefit the wider community. This agreement has now been reached.

This scheme also offers new public realm and  will provide a designated cycle and pedestrian route to its perimeter. Packaged Living is behind the project with funding from Affinius Capital.

Packaged Living is Fiera Real Estates European rental living arm. It acts as an investment manager, developer and operator in the UK and Europe.

Other amenities in the development, designed by Liverpool architects Falconer Chester Hall, include lounges, co-working areas, a gym and entertaining spaces. All-electric heating will be provided by air source heat pumps.

It will occupy the site of the former Littlewoods computer centre at the junction of Old Hall Street and Leeds Street and all the apartments, a mix of one, two and three-bedroom units, will be for rent.

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The buildings have been designed with sustainability at the forefront and include all electric heating with air source heat pumps, heat recovery systems and a focus on car-free modes of transport.

Speaking in 2025 Edwina Coward, development manager for Packaged Living, said: “We’re excited to be bringing forward a landmark development at this prominent gateway site and we’re so pleased to be able to provide more homes and public realm for this great city.”