Cheshire developer Seth Real Estate is looking at plans to build three blocks just north of Liverpool city centre, in the so-called Pumpfields district, comprising 650 apartments. Tony McDonough reports
Another developer has revealed plans to build three residential blocks in Liverpool’s so-called Pumpfields district in Vauxhall comprising 650 apartments.
Pumpfields is an area just north of the city centre close to Leeds Street and Scotland Road. Investment into the nearby Liverpool Waters project, in particular Everton FC’s new £750m stadium, has turned it into a magnet for residential developers.
Latest to step forward with its plans is Cheshire-based Seth Real Estate, an outfit that has previously delivered schemes in the Tameside area of Greater Manchester.
Now it has ambitions to develop a two-acre site in Liverpool that would comprise 650 one, two and three-bedroom apartments across three blocks of eight, 11 and 20 storeys. The shortest block would have 87 homes, the 11-storey 132 units and the tallest 431.
Seth has not yet submitted a full planning application for the project. Instead it is seeking what is called a screen opinion. This is a formal requisition to determine whether a proposed development requires an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
As part of this the developer has submitted its own assessment compiled by The Environment Partnership. This report claims the development is “not in or adjacent to any sensitive areas defined by the EIA regulations”.
It concludes: “It is therefore considered that the proposed development will not have the potential to generate significant environmental effects and is therefore not a development for which EIA should be required.
Liverpool City Council is keen to push development in the Pumpfields district to breathe life into an area close to the northern docklands that for many years was marked by industrial decline.
Architect Levitt Bernstein is leading a team which also includes Montagu Evans, Arup, and Turner Works to draw up a supplementary planning document for the city council which envisages homes for up to 10,000 people.
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The site currently comprises a surface level car park and two small industrial units to the south of the car park.
Most of the site has a developed sealed surface, there is a small area of scrubby vegetation in the far south of the site. The Waterloo Tunnel (a disused Victorian railway tunnel) runs under part of the site.
On Monday developer Davos, backed by Home Bargains billionaire Tom Morris, submitted a planning application for a 28-storey residential tower on the first plot of its King Edward development which will eventually comprise a cluster of skyscrapers.