Vincent brand bidding to create £70m luxury hotel
Liverpool’s technology hub Baltic is to get its first luxury hotel if £70m plans now before the city council are approved.
Developer Elliot Group has applied for a change of use to an existing planning approval to create The Vincent Residence & Hotel, a luxury 306 bedroom hotel overlooking Queen’s Dock.
The development will also offer 50 ‘over-sized’ serviced apartments, a 10,000sq ft basement event space and a range of luxury rooftop services, including restaurant, lounge, spa, gym and outdoor circuit training terrace.
The site, on Norfolk Street, currently has planning permission for 253 apartments but the decision to change uses followed discussions with well-known local hotelier Paul Adams, the creative force behind the Vincent brand.
“We’re working with Paul on his new Times Hotel by Vincent in Liverpool and the opportunity emerged from those discussions,” explained developer Elliot Lawless.
“We’ve just started construction of that, so this announcement is very timely.
“Baltic is thriving, but there’s always a lag between growth in the working and residential populations and infrastructure such as hotels and restaurants. This development adds to the quirky and stylish mix in this part of Liverpool and is the perfect location for the format,” added Lawless.
The Vincent Residence & Hotel will be the fourth property in Paul Adams’ Liverpool portfolio to go alongside his popular Vincent café and cocktail bar in Liverpool’s business district, The Times Hotel on Seel Street and the forthcoming launch of Vincent Asian Kitchen, the wheat, gluten and dairy free bowl food concept scheduled to open on Liverpool’s prime independent restaurant strip, Bold Street.
He also operates the popular Vincent boutique hotel in the upmarket Victorian resort of Southport.
Adams said: “The Baltic area is creative, vibrant and bohemian and is such an intriguing and colourful part of Liverpool. The development has a great waterfront location with superb views and guests will feel they have chosen to stay in a very special place.
“We will naturally aim to ensure the product and service offering is in keeping with the neighbourhood story as well as satisfying the exacting demands of today’s busy leisure and business traveller.”
“The residence will comprise of 50 large two-bed apartments of at least a thousand square feet each and we’ll also be offering a choice of up-scale contemporary penthouses which will have a generous three and a half thousand square feet of living space, which we will make available for short lets.”
If planning permission is granted the project would start on site in the summer. Project architects are well-known hotel designer Falconer Chester Hall, which designed more than 20 hotels across the UK, including the first Vincent Hotel in Southport and Liverpool’s Hope Street Hotel.
