Student homes drive continues in Liverpool
Liverpool City Council is due to approve the development of a further 190 student bedrooms in Marybone at its planning committee meeting on Tuesday 12 January.
The decision on the scheme at 55-63 Great Crosshall Street by Bridgewater Services was deferred from a planning committee meeting in November to allow for a site visit.
The plot is made up of a grade two-listed former schoolhouse for St John’s Church, and the site of a warehouse which was demolished to make way for an earlier residential scheme which stalled in 2007 when the developer entered administration.
The schoolhouse dates back to the 1860s.
Bridgewater’s proposal is to convert the schoolhouse into flats and build a part five-, six- and eight-storey block to provide 193 student rooms, made up of 31 studios and 29 cluster units, designed by Falconer Chester Hall.
The development is near to a student accommodation scheme of 400 bedrooms currently under construction, also designed by Falconer Chester Hall and being delivered by Watkin Jones Group…