Green light expected for Heap’s mill plan
LIVERPOOL City Council is set to approve plans to incorporate the historic Heap’s rice mill into a major residential scheme.
Seychelles-based One Park Lane initially wanted to demolish the derelict building near the Baltic Fleet pub but English Heritage gave it Grade II-listed status after a campaign was mounted by Merseyside Civic Society.
Alternative plans have been submitted for 800 homes and 12,000 sq ft of leisure and retail space around a new public space provisionally called Baltic Square.
As well as the restored mill there will be four new blocks, three of them 10-storey and one 14-storey on the corner of Park Lane and Liver Street. One Park Lane is in talks to sell the development as a private rental scheme to an investor.
Liverpool-based Falconer Chester Hall is working on the scheme which set for approval at a meeting of the city’s planning committee next week.