Urban Splash plans car park for Tribeca site
DEVELOPER Urban Splash has submitted a planning application to convert a chunk of land at its proposed Tribeca development near Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral into a car park.
The application was submitted earlier this month and indicates that a project billed as “the largest residential scheme in the city to date” when launched in 2008 is unlikely to be built in its original form within the near future.
The Manchester-based developer had planned to build more than 700 new homes on a five-acre site on Great George Street, which were to be a mix of apartments and family homes – some of which were to be taken by residents of existing homes and by tenants of Maritime Housing Association.
It also proposed 80,000 sq ft of commercial office and retail space, a hotel, new shops and a creche, as well as an acre of private gardens for residents and two acres of new public space.
It appointed four architects to work on the project, including Liverpool’s ShedKM, Riches Hawley Mikhal, Alison Brooks architecture and Austrian firm querkraft.
Work was due to start in Spring 2008 with the first homes due to be delivered a year later, but the subsequent downturn in the property market has caused delays.
The project was given its name as the plans comprised building three triangles beneath the cathedral – Tri-be-ca.
