Restaurant group behind Albert’s Schloss aiming to increase Liverpool presence

Mission Mars Group, the Manchester business behind the Rudy’s Neapolitan Pizza chain and Albert’s Schloss, is aiming to open a new outlet in Liverpool.

The group, which already operates restaurants on the city’s Castle Street and Bold Street, has applied for permission to open an outlet further down Bold Street, opposite the Central Station underground rail station.

In an application to go before the city council’s planning committee next Tuesday (March 1), Mission Mars is proposing to convert a former food market, which closed in 2019, into a bar/restaurant, with two ground floor retail units.

The first floor was previously occupied by retailer Argos, which closed in 2014/15.

The site is situated in a six-storey building known as Radiant House and the proposals involve the basement, ground floor, mezzanine and part of the first floor of the vacant space.

Mission Mars wants to make minor changes to the building’s Bold Street shopfront, as well as create five windows at the building’s rear elevation on Wood Street, which supports a number of bars.

No objections to the plans have been received, notes to the council’s planning committee reveal.

They also state that the proposed development is considered acceptable from a land use perspective and would have no significant detrimental impact on the residential/environmental amenity or the visual amenities of the surrounding area.

The notes add: “The site is located within a highly sustainable location and it is not considered that the proposal would cause any impact upon the surrounding highway network or give rise to highway safety issues.”

Planning officers recommend approval for the Mission Mars plans.