Work on a £1bn project to build a cluster of skyscrapers, including a 60 storey-plus tower and a five-star hotel, close to Liverpool waterfront is set to begin shortly. Tony McDonough reports
Joint venture partners Davos Property Developments and Beetham Davos are set to start work on their £1bn skyscraper cluster close to Liverpool waterfront.
Backed by Home Bargains billionaire Tom Morris, the scheme would see 10 high res residential buildings constructed on what is currently the King Edward Industrial Estate just outside Princes Dock / Liverpool Waters.
Subject to planning consent, the tallest of the towers would rise to 60 storeys plus – far taller than anything ever built in Liverpool before. The development would also include commercial space and a five-star hotel.
In June Davos submitted its first planning application to build a 28-storey residential tower on one of the plots. Councillors on the city’s planning committee are expected to give a decision on that this autumn.
Now Davos has submitted another application to Liverpool City Council seeking permission to demolish a collection of unlisted buildings around the northern boundary of the eight-acre site.
Four blocks of buildings on Roberts Street, and at 1 Greenock Street, 11-14 Waterloo Road (the former Greek restaurant) and the martial arts building adjacent to the former King Edward pub site will all be demolished if permission is granted.
A brick office building for the former engineering works on Paisley Street does not form part of the application. A separate request for a stopping-up order is to be made for part of Roberts Street, Greenock Street and Denison Street.
This combined land is required to provide a construction compound to support work on the scheme’s first tower, at the junction of Waterloo Road and Paisley Street.
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“We are moving at pace and have every confidence in the quality of what we will deliver. These applications keep us on track,” said Hugh Frost, chairman of Beetham.
“Work remains on-going on the wider scheme’s masterplan, with ambitions for a major public consultation in due course.”
Pegasus Group is providing planning, economics, heritage and EIA Services to the client team behind the King Edward scheme. Brock Carmichael is the masterplan architect.