The Duchess of Cornwall has posed up in front of the Liverpool Liver Bird wings in the Baltic Triangle. Camilla, 71, was in the city as part of a joint visit with Prince Charles, and while he stopped at the Albert Dock and the Marie Curie Hospice , she took a look around one of the trendiest… Read more »
Plans for a new creative hub in Liverpool’s northern docklands will not harm the Baltic Triangle district, according to the city’s mayor. Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson has offered assurances that the ‘Ten Streets’ project will “complement” other regeneration zones and may even free up space in the city centre. He says: “I want to make the… Read more »
Plans to transform a derelict patch of wasteland on the edge of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle have been revealed. Great George Street Developments, the consortium which acquired the failed New Chinatown scheme last year, is proposing a variety of community and public uses for the site. The application, which has been submitted to Liverpool City Council… Read more »
Alcoves and windows remain at the historic station abandoned more than a century ago. For decades the station, in a cutting by Parliament Street, decayed with the area around it, but over the last decade the Baltic Triangle has become a development hotspot. It’s home to dozens of creative businesses, while bars and nightspots have opened. Meanwhile, hundreds… Read more »
Plans to convert a kitchen showroom into a new hotel in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle are expected to be approved. Living Brick’s proposals for ‘Baltic Hotel’ include a café/restaurant, bar and a three-storey roof extension. A report to Liverpool City Council’s planning committee recommending the 36-bedroom hotel for approval says the scheme will contribute towards a “sustainable… Read more »
The IBM Global Locations Trends Report had listed the combined metropolitan areas of Liverpool and Manchester as the world’s tenth top ranking area for FDI. The report, published today, ranked areas by the number of foreign direct investment projects and the jobs they generated. From 2016 to 2017 Liverpool and Manchester secured 68 major investment… Read more »
Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has revealed he and the Liverpool City Region leaders are considering the potential for an overhead railway to return to the city’s waterfront. Known as the Dockers’ Umbrella, the light railway operated from the 1890s to the 1950s when it was deemed too expensive to repair and was demolished. Liverpool City… Read more »
New research has shown that the lettings market is seeing substantial activity with viewings up over 13% on the year and lease signings up 3.5%, while supply has declined 6.9%. The quarterly research from estate agent software platform Reapit and Dataloft, residential property market intelligence consultancy, signals an imminent supply-side squeeze in a robust lettings… Read more »
Here’s what a new hotel planned for Liverpool’s waterfront could look like. Wates Construction has been hired by the city council to build the 200-bed hotel that will sit next to the city’s new cruise liner terminal in Princes Parade. And the developer today revealed the first image of what the four-star hotel could look like. Now a public… Read more »
Liverpool City Council is looking to appoint a consultant to draw up a full tall buildings policy, which it said would need to “promote well-designed tall buildings for the right sites” while “respecting the significance” of the city’s World Heritage status. The city council’s Local Plan is currently being prepared, having been submitted for independent… Read more »