Plans for a Liverpool city centre site which had previously secured approval to be refurbished into an aparthotel have been revised by developer Duncan Birch.
Place North West report that the original application for the site, bounded by Jamaica Street and Watkinson Street, was originally proposed approximately 50 aparthotel rooms, and had received backing from Liverpool City Council.
However, Birch has now changed the plans and has applied for an alternative use for the building as office space with a rooftop bar.
The change came about when Birch, who owns two other buildings on Jamaica Street and Watkinson Street, was approached by a tenant with a request for additional space. The tenant, who occupied floor space in one of Birch’s other Jamaica Street properties, needed a further five floors to accommodate its expansion.
The revised plans propose a three-storey extension to increase the height of the building, and ‘honours the key decisions made’ during the original consultations to help ensure approval by retaining the same external envelope.
“As referred to in the previous application, the client has only put the very best materials into the conversion of their warehouses and has every intent to continue this approach through the restoration of the existing brickwork facades, architectural detailing and use of complementary features such as slim, galvanised steel window frames to match original as much as possible,” said a design and access statement submitted to the council
The statement noted that the developer intends to repeat the same sensitive approach to the conservation of some of Liverpool’s most historic dockland buildings.
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