A year after acquiring a stalled development site in Liverpool for £8.1m, Home Bargains billionaire Tom Morris proposes a scheme comprising three residential towers of up to 27 storeys and a hotel. Tony McDonough reports
Home Bargains billionaire Tom Morris is continuing his development push with a fresh proposal for a stalled development site in Liverpool to include residential towers and a hotel.
In July 2025, LBN revealed the tycoon’s investment and development vehicle Davos Property Developments had acquired the site in the city’s Baltic Triangle district for £8.1m with the intention of bringing it back to life.
Davos, which is already backing multiple property schemes in Liverpool including the £1.2bn Kings skyscraper cluster close to the waterfront, has lodged documents via Savills with the city council outlining its latest intentions.
It is seeking what is called a screening opinion from planning officers to determine whether the project requires a full environmental impact assessment. This process is frequently initiated prior to a full planning application being submitted.
In 2020 an entity called Chaloner Street Developments secured planning permission for a mixed-used development comprising 650 homes, a hotel and 43,500 sq ft of commercial space on the two-acre plot on the corner of Chaloner Street and Upper Parliament Street.
It proposed three residential towers of up to 27 storeys, a hotel, 22,200 sq ft of offices and 24,700 sq ft of mixed-use space. However, the scheme never came to fruition and the developer is no more.
In partnership with build-to-rent developer Brickland, Davos is proposing a similar scheme that would see three residential towers of between 17 and 27 storeys, a hotel, commercial space, public realm, and landscaping.
In its submission to the council, Savills said: “The development is not in an environmentally sensitive area and is in a developed area of the Baltic Triangle in Liverpool.
Furthermore, having regard to the character of the Site and the surrounding area as well as the nature and scale of the proposed development as detailed above , it is considered that this proposal would not have a significant effect on the environment.”