Plans submitted for Chinatown development
LIVERPOOL-based developer Elliot Group has submitted plans for a six-story apartment block on Upper Pitt Street between Liverpool’s Chinatown and Baltic neighbourhoods.
The scheme, to be known as Baltic Place, has been designed by architects Falconer Chester Hall and will provide 52 one-bed apartments for rental to young professionals, with a gym, courtyard and Chinese garden on site.
“Upper Pitt Street was the heart of Chinatown from the middle of the 19th century until it moved towards Nelson Street,” said Elliot Lawless of the Elliot Group.
“It’s now on Chinatown’s southern boundary and our designs for a Chinese garden have been carefully thought-through to pay proper respect to the area’s heritage.”
A planning application has now been submitted for the scheme and is expected to be heard in February. If successful, work would start in the spring, said Lawless, with completion expected in September 2016. The contractor is Liverpool-based Newry Construction.
Meanwhile, Elliot Group this week began demolition of a disused warehouse on Norfolk Street to facilitate the second phase of its Norfolk Street scheme in Baltic.
The nine-story apartment block will provide 100 apartments for rent to young professionals and has a value of £10m. Golding Estates have been appointed lettings agents.
