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    Hasn't a down-scaled design been submitted to the council because that one was too tall and would spoil the Lime Street Gateway? Personally speaking, it is all ready spoiled by the facarde of the St Johns Carpark! I wish that a mock facarde could be put up around the carpark so that it fit's in with the surroundings.


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    Its a great looking building

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    Quote Originally Posted by wallasey View Post
    Hasn't a down-scaled design been submitted to the council because that one was too tall and would spoil the Lime Street Gateway? Personally speaking, it is all ready spoiled by the facarde of the St Johns Carpark! I wish that a mock facarde could be put up around the carpark so that it fit's in with the surroundings.
    I don't see how that would spoil the Lime Street Gateway.
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    But hasn't the tower pictured been changed because it is in breach of the Tall Building's Bill? I know that there have been two designs submitted anyway...

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    Quote Originally Posted by wallasey View Post
    But hasn't the tower pictured been changed because it is in breach of the Tall Building's Bill? I know that there have been two designs submitted anyway...
    That's the Chieftain tower just behind this you're getting mixed up with,the tower in that render already has planning permission and will be 28 storey's,incidentally the Chieftain tower had appealed this decision and has just lost its appeal.

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    Who the hell started that tall buildings bill?

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    City centre development refused

    Developers have lost a long-running battle over proposals for a multi-use development in Liverpool city centre.


    The development was turned down
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    Plans for a 160-bedroom hotel, more than 150 residential apartments and business space in two tower blocks near Lime Street Station have been refused.

    Liverpool Council rejected the plans last summer so the developers appealed and a public inquiry was held.

    But the government has also turned down the plans, saying the proposals would impact too much on surrounding areas.

    In a report it claimed that the proposals would impact on the world heritage site, the William Brown Street conservation area and the listed buildings within it.

    It also said that none of the benefits of the proposed plans - by Limerick-based developers Chieftain Construction Ltd - would outweigh 'the very real harm' to the townscape and heritage of the city.

    Source: BBC NEWS | Merseyside

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    Lime St tower appeal rejected
    Aug 19 2006
    By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff

    A LAST-DITCH appeal by developers wanting to build a £50m hotel and tower block near to Liverpool's Lime Street station has been rejected by the Government.

    Irish firm Chieftain launched an appeal last year after city planners turned down their application for a 32-storey building, fearing it would dominate the area.

    But Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities, backed the decision and threw out the scheme.

    Last night, Liverpool City Council claimed it was a vindication of the decision taken by its planning committee.

    But Cllr Peter Millea, executive member for regeneration, said the city centre had lost out on a vital development.

    He said: "This scheme was just what the area needed. It is not just about a block of flats, it's about everything that attracts.

    "It would bring shops and amenities, which are desperately needed in that area.

    "That part of town needs some landmark features. The scheme also offered good quality accommodation. We cannot just keep churning out cheap social housing.

    "People want the type of housing that it offered.

    "I'm disappointed by this decision."

    Chieftain, under general manager Sean O'Sullivan, commissioned heritage consultants Roger Wools and Associates to carry out a comprehensive assessment of its proposal on the site in Skelhorne Street. They reported that the scheme would "preserve and enhance" the surroundings.

    Although the inspector believed it would meet regeneration and housing requirements, the appeal was turned down because of the impact it would have on the William Brown Street conservation area, which is part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site.

    Mrs Kelly also backed the inspector's findings that a cluster of tall buildings by Lime Street station would dilute the essence of the character of the area historically and visually.

    Chieftain's only option of attempting to revive the project now is to take it to the High Court, but it is believed unlikely that will happen.

    The company always believed the council turned down the plans because its tower was just yards away from another tall building being constructed by public sector body English Partnerships as part of the Lime Street Gateway project, which council officers have backed.

    Chieftain feared the council favoured the public sector scheme at the expense of its own.

    English Heritage had also raised concerns about the Chieftain plans, claiming skyscraper style developments around Lime Street would have a serious impact on historic buildings. CABE - Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment - called the tower inelegant and over- complicated.

    A city council spokesman said: "The planning inspector is an independent expert who has thoroughly vindicated the planning committee's stance on this application."

    No one from Chieftain was available for comment last night.

    Source: icLiverpool

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    Default Bolton Street, behind Lime Street

    My great great grandfather, a dockyard porter, was living with his family at 13 Court, Bolton Street in 1851.
    I understand these old courts were terrible dumps with groups of slum houses surrounding a single outside toilet that served for all the houses in the court. The sewage would often run out and form open cesspools of stinking filth in the courtyard.
    Will Bolton Street disappear with this new development?
    I wouldn't be sorry, just interested.
    In the 1850s his family moved around to different rented houses, Queens Place, Hodgsons Place, Clayton Street in various Courts..7,13,18.
    Can you wonder that so many people died in childhood those days.

    His son William made a great leap forward and moved out to Wavertree.

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    it's a ****ing joke the amount of projects being knocked back especially tall buildings.

    Why dont english heritage the labour government and the lib dems sling their hook.

    I dont care what the old moaners say a centre right capitalist party would be better for Liverpool.

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    urban If you want the tories back you must be too young to remember their last performance.

    Mrs. Thatcher did something good for me though, she made me emmigrate!
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    A Liverpool Thatcher would sort this city out for good.

    We have had 10 years of the Lib Dems ---granted a massive improvement on the pathetic Labour councils of the late 80s and 90s.

    Prior to that we had a Stalinist administration which drove us back years.

    As the Tories havent governed Liverpool for decades no one can judge what they would do.

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    Great idea urban, A Thatcher in charge could cut all benefits the the disabled and mentally sick, let the *******s starve, remove all council taxes from people who live in homes worth 200k and more. It is easy to imagine what another Thatcher could do. You have a sick mind.
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    You raise some interesting issues Urban. Whilst I have little time for the Lib-Dems locally or New Labour nationally they were elected by their respective constituencies. It is up to the Tories to convince the electorate that a centre right party would be better.

    PS. One of the benefits of age is that we remember what actually took place during the 60s, 70s and 80s.

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