Although at long last London Road is on the up (well, the top end anyway). This is more than can be said for Lime Stree south of the old ABC cinema - now that is a disgrace. It should be one of the city's best streets - one end St Lukes and the other St Georges Hall. What a waste. Typical Liverpool!
Yep, agreedOriginally Posted by Jericho
Typical Liverpool what?
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St Lukes.....The Top End of London Road ??.....I don't think so
Neither was Jericho. He meant the Lime St/Renshaw St end.St Lukes.....The Top End of London Road ??.....I don't think so
Sorry, that was a bit obscure of me. I meant the ability of the city to turn a silk purse into a sow's ear. Standing opposite the ABC you can see St George's Hall, along Lime Street proper you can see what used to be the Futurist, the tower of the Vines, the Adelphi (OK, no longer Lime Street but part of the potential St Georges - St Lukes vista that could give Hope Street a run for its money), Epstein's statue and further along, Central Hall and the Rapid 'towerette'! before St Lukes itself.
Anywhere else this would be a top class boulevard.
Does anyone know why St Georges Hall isn't fully lit anymore? It looks fantastic when it is, but every time I see it at night recently, it only has a few lights on.
NEW plans for a £35m hotel complex behind Liverpool’s Lime Street station were being unveiled today.
Irish developer Chieftain, which lost a long-running battle to build a skyscraper on the same site last summer, is behind the proposals.
The firm’s previous scheme involved a 32-floor tower, containing a five-star hotel and around 80 apartments, to be built on a car park off Skelhorne Street.
That plan was rejected by Liverpool council and the government, so Chieftain has drawn up a more modest proposal.
It now wants to construct a 14-storey complex featuring a three or four-star, 150-bedroom hotel and about 90 flats. continues....
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Brilliant pics Gerard, ta mate
Don't know why, but this one really catches my eye.
Gerard, thanks mate. It makes a cracking B+W vignette
Gerard, thanks mate. It makes a cracking B+W vignette
Eh I like that Dave.
Great to see the lions finally being cleaned. Are the statues going to be cleaned aswell?
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REWRITTEN plans for a tower behind Liverpool’s Lime Street station are finally due for approval.
Irish developer Chieftain failed last year with proposals for a dazzling glass tower housing the city’s first five-star hotel.
But it has returned with a slightly different project, this time including a 151-bedroom hotel and almost 90 flats in two 13 and 12-storey blocks.
Councillors will discuss the plan next Tuesday.
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THE long-running saga of a controversial development site alongside Liverpool’s Lime Street station has finally been resolved.
Irish developer Chieftain saw ambitious plans for a skyscraper hit the buffers when it faced opposition from city planners.
Now a revised scheme that will see a stunning 13-storey building on the Skelhorne Street site has been approved by the council’s planning committee.
Councillors backed a recommendation from officers who supported the scaled-down development.
Chieftain will now construct a new landmark building on the sloping site. It will include a 151-bed four-star hotel, 88 apartments and a 39-space basement car park. The area around the building will also be landscaped.
The developers took their previous project to a govern- ment planning appeal, but the Secretary of State dis- missed the appeal, bringing to an end hopes of a 32-storey tower. Liverpool architects Falconer ChesterHall devised a modified scheme for the triangular shaped block.
Council planning manager Nigel Lee said the revised plans overcome concerns about the potential impact of the skyscraper building.
“It will provide an attractive and impressive development at the entrance to the city from Lime Street Station,” said Mr Lee. source
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Has there been any recent news about the site of Concourse House?
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