Liverpool’s planning committee has given the go ahead to a new car park scheme in the city centre, despite protests over the felling of trees to enable its construction.
The proposed multi-storey car park on Victoria Street will provide 333 parking spaces over five storeys and will replace the current street entry level car park.
In addition to the parking spaces, the new building will also include nearly 6,000 sq ft of restaurant or bar space on the ground floor, with an additional 3,981 sq ft mezzanine level above, Place North West revealed.
However, Liverpool Confidential highlighted the protests that have surrounded the proposals, predominantly over the need to fell 36 mature trees at a time when the UK’s cities have been criticised by the World Health Organisation for breaching air pollution limits.
The council has said it will plant around 90 trees in the Victoria Street area to compensate for those being removed.
If all goes to plan for the £6.5 million scheme, the car park should be open by late November this year.
Councillor Malcolm Kennedy commented: “The scale of the investment and the creation of a new leisure attraction will also help accelerate the regeneration that is beginning to take place there.”
Liverpool is undergoing a period of construction and development, with developer Elliot Group among the companies to request approval for a new project. The organisation submitted plans in December to construct three towers on the edge of the city’s business district that will provide over 1,000 new apartments.
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