Liverpool tower set for approval

Plans to build a 31-storey tower at Liverpool’s Princes Dock look set to advance.The application – submitted by Peel L&P and Your Housing Group (YHG) – is for a residential development called Patagonia Place.Designed by Falconer Chester Hall, with Arup providing planning consultation and Vermont in line to build, it would comprise 278 apartments.This would be made up of 46 studios, 102 one-bedrooms, 102 two-bedrooms and 28 three-bedrooms.A ground floor commercial unit is also lined up, as are 22 car parking spaces and 90 cycle spaces.Approval has been recommended.Liverpool Waters is considered to be one of the biggest single regeneration projects in the history of the city. It will comprise 9,000 homes, 3.4 million sq ft of business space and 570,500 sq ft of hotel and conference facilities.It will also be the home to a cruise liner terminal and hotel, the Isle of Man ferry terminal and is the proposed location of Everton FC’s new stadium.