{"id":561096,"date":"2026-05-01T19:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561096\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:22:11","slug":"fresh-images-of-1-2bn-liverpool-skyscraper-district-as-plans-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561096\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh images of \u00a31.2bn Liverpool skyscraper district as plans move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Branded as Kings, the eight-acre neighborhood would feature a 70-storey tower as its centrepiece and is the city\u2019s largest development project since Liverpool ONE.<\/p>\n

A consultation on the\u00a0much-talked\u00a0about redevelopment of what developers Beetham Group and Davos Property call a \u201cforgotten corner Liverpool\u2019s waterfront\u201d has kicked off today ahead of the submission of a hybrid planning\u00a0application\u00a0later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Have your say on the proposals \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

In all, the masterplan features 10 buildings. Consent for the first, a 28-storey residential building, has already been secured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Six of the proposed buildings at Kings would be residential and would provide a combined 2,750 homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The centerpiece tall building, designed by\u00a0SimpsonHaugh\u00a0Architects, features a hotel on its lower floors and more than 500 branded residences on the upper levels. It would be the city\u2019s tallest building and one of the tallest in the UK outside the capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Across Kings, 400 hotel rooms are planned, as well as 150,000 sq ft of offices closest to the river and 160,000 sq ft for retail,\u00a0leisure\u00a0and F&B operators.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The period of public consultation will inform the hybrid application, which will seek detailed consent for layout, site services, and outline consent for each building plot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kings<\/a><\/p>\n

SimpsonHaugh is the largest tower\u2019s designer. Credit: Infinite 3D<\/p>\n

\u201cKings is a statement of our confidence in Liverpool, its leadership and its economy,\u201d said Hugh Frost,\u00a0chairman\u00a0of Beetham Group, which developed the city\u2019s current tallest building.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are backing ourselves in our drive to deliver a step-change for the city\u2019s economy and this consultation is to ask the public for its backing, too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brock Carmichael is the masterplan architect for Kings, with Pegasus Group providing planning, economics, heritage and EIA services and Planit leading on public realm design.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a key moment in the shaping of our final proposals,\u201d said Chris Bolland, managing partner at Brock Carmichael.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAn awful lot of\u00a0hard work\u00a0has gone into our designs, taking into consideration everything from heritage and permeability to layout,\u00a0massing\u00a0and scale.\u00a0\u00a0The council has been a key partner and offered a robust challenge which has helped us deliver\u00a0a very strong\u00a0set of proposals. Now we need to hear what the people of Liverpool and Wirral think.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The JV between Davos, the property arm of TJ Morris\u2019s billionaire owner Tom Morris, and Beetham, is actively seeking investment for the project, which would cost \u00a31.2bn to construct.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The partners want to bring in a build-to-rent forward-funding partner, a branded residences partner, a hotel operator, and attract either a major occupier or institutional investor to forward-fund the office element.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Branded as Kings, the eight-acre neighborhood would feature a 70-storey tower as its centrepiece and is the city\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}