City planners are recommending approval for Ascot Luxury Living’s proposed £50m residential development in the Baltic Triangle in Liverpool. Tony McDonough reports
Developer Ascot Luxury Living is likely to secure approval for a £50m scheme in Liverpool that will comprise 194 apartments.
Ascot Luxury Living is a division of Crosby-based property venture Ascot Group. It has applied for planning consent to convert the former Bogan’s Carpets site on New Bird Street in the Baltic Triangle into a residential complex.
Designed by architects at Falconer Chester Hall, the scheme will rise to nine and 10 storeys and will also include six co-working and commercial units on the ground and mezzanine floors.
These will target the area’s mix of creative and technology businesses. The existing single storey warehouse will be demolished. City council planners are recommending approval.
Ascot Group chief executive Terry Riley said: “This is a statement building on one of the neighbourhood’s most prominent frontages, and benefits from being around the corner from the new Baltic underground station.
“There’s considerable pent-up demand for co-working space and more retail and leisure provision in the area as the working and residential populations increase, so it’s pleasing that we can help satisfy that, too.”
It will comprise 96 one-bed and 98 two-bedroom apartments, ranging in size from 409 sq ft to 750 sq ft. Residents will have exclusive access to a 4,520 sq ft terrace on the first floor, facing New Bird Street.
This is the second example of the so-called development dividend that the new £100m Baltic Merseyrail station, set to open in 2027, is expected to deliver. In early May Davos, owned by Home Bargains billionaire Tom Morris, proposed a 199-home scheme.
Architect Robert Brym of Falconer Chester Hall says the Ascot project’s pitched roofs are one of its defining features, drawing on the vernacular of the area’s port-related architecture.
“They offer both a nod to the historic gables of the 19th-century warehouses and the more contemporary Baltic Creative sheds,” he explained.
“The scheme reflects the area’s defining brick palette and industrial aesthetic, combining deep window reveals and bonded brickwork to pleasing effect.”
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Brym added the layout responds to New Bird Street’s classification as a ‘living street’ in the area’s Strategic Regeneration Framework, with the design respecting views, daylight, and the scale of nearby buildings.
This design also includes solar panels, high-efficiency ventilation, improved insulation values, and a car-free strategy, encouraging sustainable modes of transport. No car parking provision is available, with 194 cycle spaces in its place.
The project team also includes Broadgrove, Wardell Armstrong, GIA Surveyors, PG Consulting, SEED Arboriculture, Orion Fire Engineering, Place & Context, Acoustic & Engineering Consultants and SK Transport Planning.