Last Friday's Echo (25/08/06) had a letter from Canada pertaining to this project and the English Heritage objection to the original proposal.
Last Friday's Echo (25/08/06) had a letter from Canada pertaining to this project and the English Heritage objection to the original proposal.
Fabulous news. The city needs to draw in families as well as the 1-2 bedroom apartment market. It will help the city centre sustain a lot of services that have been missing for a long time. Hopefully a decent city centre school, of the public sector variety, will open up to serve these new families.
This looks great, in the international style and the sort of modern building to be found in continental European cities.
Lets hope we've seen the last of any new buildings constructed using drab red brick, a building material no better than breezeblocks. I doubt it though having seen the renders for the hotels on the King's Dock, a disgrace given that CABE, English Heritage and others who should know better gave their blessings to them.
We finally seem to have realised the benefits of putting striking new developments in strategic positions around the city such as this and the Norton's scrapyard corner, surely leading to even more regeneration in these areas.
Now if only we can tell people on Wirral to mind their own business when complaining about towers blocking their views of the Anglican Cathedral.
As the letter from the Canadian gentleman stated, they don't pay taxes to Liverpool and should have no say in blocking developments on this side of the water just to preserve their view.
Correct!As the letter from the Canadian gentleman stated, they don't pay taxes to Liverpool and should have no say in blocking developments on this side of the water just to preserve their view.
Go-ahead for £100m mixed development
SEFTON Street Quarter has been given the final green light by the government department responsible for housing, urban regeneration and planning.
The Department of Communities and Local government yesterday endorsed Liverpool City Council's planning approval of the £100m development.
The scheme will transform an under-utilised and low-quality industrial site into a mixed-use development including a luxury hotel and 22-storey apartment tower. New family homes, commercial, leisure and retail space as well as attractive public areas will also be built on the two-acre site at the junction of Parliament Street and Sefton Street.
The project, created by Liverpool-based Vermont Developments and its joint venture partner, Ethel Austin Property Group, had been referred to the department because it required a change of land use. Further consent was also necessary because of its scale, passing the 150-units threshold.
Mark Connor, chief executive of Vermont Developments, said: "We believe our scheme will provide a landmark development at the southern gateway into the city."
I've not seen this name before. It looks like an attempt to airbrush the name Toxteth out of this L8 development. Similarly the name "Georgian quarter" ( largely in L8 but not Toxteth) has been invented to disguise its L8 post code. I suspect this is because it does not fit in with the deprived image associated with Toxteth. It of course forgets that other part of Toxteth along the south Docks (L3) which we are now told to call Docklands and the council were even forced to remove the Toxteth sign near the Herculaneum as it upset the new locals who felt couldn't possibly live in Toxteth. At least that what their estate agents told them.
Why does everywhere have to be a 'quarter' now? And can there really be more than 4 quarters in 1 city anyway?
^Most of those buildings in the first picture from ScouseDave are gone now.^
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