Property developer Elliot Lawless has launched an appeal after a controversial student housing plan near Toxteth was rejected by Liverpool Council.
The local authority’s planning committee confirmed last year that proposals for more than 180 student bedrooms and 105 apartments on Falkner Street could not go ahead after it ratified its previous decision to knock back a plan months earlier. The scheme was up before the committee for a third time, having initially been discussed in December 2019.
During a planning meeting in March 2022, councillors went against the council planning officers’ recommendation to approve the plans by Falkner Street Developments - of which Mr Lawless is a director - to build on the site of a former church and probation centre in L8. Despite the plans being recommended for approval, Cllr Joe Hanson said the application should be refused based on the lack of parking, and the detrimental effect on residential amenity.
