Liverpool Magistrates’ Court hotel conversion revived
Belgian firm VSHF Developments has applied to convert the listed Dale Street building into a 91-bedroom hotel four years after plans for a similar scheme were approved.
The developer, headed up by directors Nathan Van Paesschen and Gregory Spaenjaers, has submitted proposals to repurpose Liverpool’s former Magistrates’ Court, having acquired the building from YPG Group last year.
The scheme will see the court converted, providing 91 bedrooms in the existing building and a further 20 in a new-build extension.
The project is almost identical to earlier proposals from YPG, approved in 2019.
YPG secured consent to transform the building, vacant since 2013, into a 90-bedroom hotel but the project did not materialise.
YPG then sold the building to VHSF for £265,000 last year, according to Land Registry.
VSHF first became involved in the scheme in 2021, lodging fresh plans to repurpose the former court into a 68-bedroom student accommodation development.
Liverpool City Council did not determine this application and now VHSF has opted to revert back to the hotel proposals.
To learn more about the plans, search for reference number 23L/2434 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Broadgrove Planning and Projex are advising VSHF on the plans.
Looks positive so fingers crossed, this building deserves to succeed and that end of Dale Street does too, some decent bars and restaurants down there now.
By Anonymous