Fast Growth Homes scores goal with Everton hotel
Liverpool City Council unanimously voted to approve an 80-bed hotel by the football club’s upcoming Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium.
The decision, made yesterday, was in line with officer recommendation.
Fast Growth Homes was behind the plans, which had listed land owner Rohan Hughes as the applicant. FGH had an option for the site and had developed the proposals with Atelier 2 Architecture.
Set off Fulton Street in Liverpool’s Kirkdale ward, the future hotel would see the repurposing of a grade two-listed former mill to hold 32 rooms. A five-storey addition would also be built, with a capacity for 48 bedrooms.
The hotel would also include a bar, restaurant, spa, and pool. There is no car parking provided.
Work is estimated to start on site during the first quarter of next year.
The Fulton Street hotel will be among the first of five hotels that FGH is hoping to deliver in Liverpool alongside partner Brightstar Hospitality Management. Brightstar currently manages the Holiday Inn – Manchester Central Park, Oddfellows Chester, and Oddfellows on the Park in Cheadle.
The group has also lodged a Section 73 application to revive the former Atlantic Corner Hotel off Regent Road after having its initial application for a 50-bed hotel approved last year. If successful, FGH hopes to start work on that initiative around the same time as the Fulton Street project.
FGH declined to share information regarding the other three sites.
FGH managing director Chris O’Flaherty said: “Building on our recent successes across the City, we are pleased to receive this planning approval to bring forward a high-quality hotel and leisure development in the Ten Streets district of North Liverpool.
“We invested in this area of the city a number of years ago and believed then that developments such as our hotel portfolio would promote and support Liverpool’s role as a centre of tourism, culture, and major events.”
Paul Lloyd, co-director at FGH, added: “The proposal to retain and convert this listed mill building will secure the long-term future of the building, we always believed that a hotel in this area would provide a complementary use given the proximity to Bramley Moor football stadium.”
The Fulton Street application marks a reset of sorts for FGH. An SPV for the Liverpool-based developer dedicated to building 198 flats in Toxteth entered administration last year. In 2020, FGH was refused permission to demolish a series of warehouses off Waterloo Road to make room for a £10m hotel.
This go-round FGH has lined up a project team to see it through all five proposed hotels. This includes Falconer Chester Hall, Savills, Atelier 2, and contractor Truman Medlock.
To learn more about the Fulton Street project, search application reference number 22F/3397 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal. In addition to Atelier 2, the project team for this scheme included ERAP, West Coast Geomatics, and AMNI Transportation.
This story begs way more questions than it answers.
By Anonymous
Will add to the improvement of the local area close to what will be the best stadium in the country
By Anonymous
Now the developers have been revealed we shouldn’t hold our breath on this one as FGH have various sites in Liverpool with planning permission but no works have started eg their site along Scotland Rd has been idle for years and the hoardings have rotted, they also had the site near Brunswick Station along Sefton St with no activity but is now sold to Integritas.
By Anonymous
Anonymous ( 12:18 ) sounds like someone with a bee in their bonnet and a hard on for FGH.
As someone that knows and has worked with FGH for a number of years, I’ve had nothing but excellent interactions with them, be it on a commercial level or personable level.
Furthermore, unlike some in the city, FGH have remained clear of disgraceful corruption that has taken place in the city over the past decade or so. They do things the right way and are self-sustained and don’t steal peoples life savings to get things off the ground.
So before any further disparaging remarks, I’d do some due diligence on just WHY the other projects haven’t gotten started. But at least its not down to corruption, back handers, stealing or robbing Peter to pay Paul.
I Look forward to FGH getting started and hopefully having the chance to work with them once more.
By Anonymous
Yep, that’s where the good news ends folks, this shower will never get their spades in the ground.
By Roy
So, if FGH don’t own the building, how are they developing it? Who has provided the finance?
By Anonymous
Another bland building in such an iconic area. Congratulations Liverpool city council on wasted opportunity.
By Steven
If Liverpool City Council had a clear plan for this immediate area then developers might come up with some achievable proposals. This local area would make a great little neighbourhood with low and mid-rise flats, cafes and bars, and a few hotels for starters. In days gone by Liverpool’s planners were proactive now it’s all reactive and piecemeal.
By Anonymous
Great to see some of the character of the old docklands preserved. Please bear in mind (Place NW), these buildings were nearly all warehouses (not mills) in Liverpool. The warehouses handled goods coming from the docks. You get grain mills too of course, like Heaps Mill (which was rice) but there aren’t the cotton mills you get in Manchester and the towns of inland Lancashire. Liverpool imported the cotton and transported to to the mill towns. So this is a nice surviving warehouse, not a mill.
By Paul Blackburne
@Paul Blackburne The building was previously a provender mill, which was a place that would receive in-bound material, such as grain or rice, and undertake basic processing, such as removal of husks, alongside sorting and filtering to remove impurities. It could then be sent to food-grade milling operations.
By Anonymous
@ 10.12am, looks like the developer told PNW this building was a mill so all they are doing was relaying that information so perhaps they were mislead, anyhow another poster has confirmed this building was used for basic milling or processing so all`s well, at the end of the day we need to see more of those old buildings in use and not deteriorating and full of weeds.
By Anonymous
It’s certainly a Mill identifying as a Warehouse
By Anonymous
Everton’s Hotel Football. Just waiting for the club’s new owners to make them an offer they can’t refuse
By Anonymous
The redevelopment of the surrounding area has to start somewhere and its a brave move. Guaranteed to be full 19 nights a year (23 if in the Championship) but it wouldn’t be on most peoples radar when stopping in Liverpool for a weekend break etc. Unless you fancy a romantic two mile stroll down Regent & Waterloo Rd to the city centre. Part of the stadium build program should have been the connectivity to the city centre and should have been funded by LCC/Peel. Friends from out of the area were put off staying at the Titanic for a similar reason and until Peel get the redevelopment between Bramley and Princes Dock moving I feel it’ll be slow going.
By G McCain
This hotel was the standout on another underwhelming Liverpool planning agenda and its not even certain it will get built. Meanwhile another week has gone by on PNW and the journalists have had little of any substance to report in terms of medium or major schemes being announced. Looking at the Liverpool planning portal leaves you in despair week after week, as all you see is tree works, HMOs, communication masts, house extensions, and so on. Just what goes on at the City Council, why don’t they be honest and say things aren’t going well and we are not going to be the ” world class” city we keep telling you we will be. We have some really good development officers employed now but surely they will get demoralised if all their efforts bear no fruit.
By Anonymous
What a disappointing cgi. Looks like a Gulag. The only blessing is it will likely never be built.
By Anonymous
LCC need to get their skates on now in the north of the city, so much to do and do much potential to realise.
By Anonymous