Legacie eyes conversion of Liverpool office block

Funny, don’t you think, that when a scheme benefits from PDR developers opt for 1-bed units – because that’s what the market wants. When the City Council becomes involved, their desire to dictate to the market means that things hit the quicksand as they seek to impose two-bed and family units. Maybe – just maybe – that’s why there’s a paucity of cranes on the Liverpool skyline.

A great shop once, very atmospheric , with a fashion conscious client base.
Shame the hotel proposal failed, wonder what put them off, anyhow it’s been vacant for some time and this proposal will bring people into the city and provide council tax revenue to the local authority.

Labour showed their true colours with the expansion of permitted development, and it’s clear what our city needs doesn’t figure in their sleazy thinking.

Look forward to seeing them wiped out as soon as a realistic alternative comes along. they seem to be doing everything to accelerate that.

What a bad state of affairs when a splendid office block in a prime site has to be converted into apartments. This seems to be happening a lot in prime sites in Liverpool. Why is Liverpool struggling so hard to attract office investment when Manchester and other major cities are booming ? Can someone answer why Liverpool remains at the bottom of the league table for commercial investment.A sorry state of affairs that Steve Rotherham doesn’t seem to question.

Not much of what they do is aesthetically pleasing, but without Legacie there’d be little development activity in Liverpool at the moment. Time for more action and less words from LCC now on a number of fronts.

Totally agree with Steve Davis, the alarms being going off for years now and no one in LCC is listening or even questioning why, meanwhile a majority of cities around the UK are continuing to build new office space even with hybrid working.

Manchester is building millions of square feet of office space ,while other towns and cities are building as well, but in Liverpool there is a paltry amount. You would think in a handsome city there would be reasonable activity but it’s just not happening. The business district has acres of land just idle eg Moorfields , Pall Mall, Pig and Whistle site, etc, wasn’t the recent Government Commissioner concerned about the Council’s inability to attract office developers, then again we don’t seem to be getting any Civil Service jobs transferred they’re all going down the M62.

LCC single handed have set our city back so far it’s heartbreaking.
Unfortunately the local electorate don’t seem to care or notice what is happening.
Take a journey into Manchester the contrast is staggering .
They have benefited fro a forward looking business friendly council and have reaped huge benefits.
LCC are stuck in the dark ages and the results are obvious and painful.
I am not sure we can ever recover.

There should be no excuse now as Labour have said they are going to tackle the slow or awkward planning departments and committees, while dealing with the Nimbyism which is blocking developments for no justified reason. Liverpool now has the opportunity to say to developers you can build or invest here and as long as you are a reputable developer who intends to develop and produce something worthwhile then we are on your side.

Thank God Liverpool has not disfigured its beautiful city with ugly offices and apartments.Of course that annoys the greedy provincial property industry who wants to do to Liverpool what they been allowed to do in Manchester,which in both cases has no popular support among the population who increasingly detest the property industry.

@Bob 11.19am, why do you read PNW , it’s a site devoted to property development but you sound utterly opposed to development, you also feel Liverpool is a beautiful city and it’s being ruined by property development. You don’t seem to have a grasp of the real world and fail to see that Liverpool has many eyesore that need developing so we can bring jobs and get the population back to somewhere near it used to be.

Manchester residents love the jobs and opportunities that the investment and development brings, as would Liverpool residents. Manchesters population continues to grow rapidly so it must be doing something right surely!!

Hi folks, going forward let’s keep the comment section on topic. The topic is, of course, Legacie’s plans for the former Watson Pickard Building. Thank you.

All one beds is not compliant with the Local Plan.

@Dr Buildings 10am, but the local plan is not in line with market demand, the sooner Liverpool realises this the better, and then more serious developers will consider investing.