Campaigners are celebrating after a controversial housing development in South Liverpool was rejected.
After a four month campaign, Liverpool Council ’s planning department has confirmed that it will not allow an application to go ahead for the building of an additional storey on the existing building at Beech Court, Allerton. Members of the action group made up of concerned residents, who dubbed themselves Extension Rebellion, said they were pleased with the decision.
Applicant Rachmarc Properties had sought to add the properties on a new floor above the current three storey building that consists of 30 two-bed flats. According to the application submitted to Liverpool Council by Peter Hamilton planning consultancy on behalf of Rachmarc, the proposed development would have included one two bed and eight further one bed apartments on top of the current block of flats.
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