Liverpool City Council has produced a framework aimed at guiding the development of tall buildings to ensure they ‘positively contribute to the legibility and architectural richness of the city’.
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… significance of various heritage assets….remains undiminished…
Place North West writes:
….Liverpool City Council’s Tall Buildings Supplementary Planning Document is to be used in conjunction with the local plans and is aimed at ensuring developers understand how and where the authority wants to see towers delivered in the city centre.
The main areas identified in the framework are Peel L&P’s Liverpool Waters, which already has permission for multiple 30+ storey towers, and the central business district, which the SPD suggests could accommodate buildings of up to 50 storeys.
Fewer tall buildings have come forward in Liverpool in recent years compared to other regional cities, due in part to the city’s World Heritage Status.
However, UNESCO rescinded the title last year, potentially opening Liverpool up to an increased number of tall developments.
The new framework, which will go before cabinet later this week, intends to help the city council maintain control of Liverpool’s skyline and ensure projects come forward in a measured way that does not negatively impact the city.
“While the city has recently lost its World Heritage Site status, the significance of various heritage assets contained within the rescinded designation remains undiminished,” the SPD states.
“It is therefore imperative to continue to protect the city’s mercantile heritage and key waterfront, panoramic and city views and the setting of associated listed buildings and conservation areas remain valid considerations.”
Read Liverpool City Council’s Tall Buildings Supplementary Planning Document
