Unanimous approval for £3.5m Liverpool children’s hospice
Zoe’s Place will have a new home once its current lease ends at Yew Tree Lane, with Liverpool City Council giving the green light for the charity’s plans for a specialist facility to offer kids up to five years old and their families palliative and bereavement care.
Following the advice of planning officers, city councillors unanimously approved Zoe’s Place’s planning application on Tuesday morning. This will enable the charity to refurbish the existing 4,500 sq ft villa on the former bowling green at Hayman’s Green in West Derby.
The group will then build a 7,400 sq ft extension, enabling it to have a hydrotherapy pool, specialist rooms for counselling, and sensory and soft play spaces.
The new Zoe’s Place would also have four bedrooms, family residential areas, and two bereavement suites, as well as landscaped outdoor areas.
This new space would allow the charity to increase the number of children it can care for at any one time from four to six.
Mersey Design Group is the architect for the proposals, with BCA Landscape designing the exterior spaces. Sutcliffe is the structural engineer and PSA is the mechanical and electrical engineer. The project team also includes Greyside Planning, Prime Transport Planning, and Liath Heritage.
Soft play areas are included in the plans for the hospice. Credit: Moore Media
As part of the planning agreement with the city council, Zoe’s Place will need to pay more than £25,000 for providing offsite habitat creation as per biodiversity net gain rules, as well as £862.50 for the costs of administering the Section 106 Agreement.
To help fund the development of Zoe’s Place, the charity has launched a capital campaign to raise the £3.5m that is estimated to be required to build the facility.
You can learn more about the plans by searching application reference number 24F/0795 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Just 4 items on that Planning Committee agenda and Zoe’s Place was the standout, no disrespect but hardly a game changer. Look back at all this year’s Planning agendas there’s hardly anything happening, we are being spun riddles by this City Council who talk of billions of £s of investment lined up but where is it?
They have appointed highly paid officers overseeing the development and investment in the City but they are coming up with very little. Yes we have Littlewoods Studios on site but progress is slow, Chinatown nothing, Knowledge Quarter slow, ponderous and scaled down, Pall Mall nothing , Kings Dock anyone.
Would love another PNW chat with Liam Robinson for an update, or even Nick Small the councillor in charge of city development and the local economy.
It’s the Labour Conference next week maybe they could be cornered and give some answers.
By Anonymous