A plan to bring student accommodation and new apartments to a former church site in L8 have been rejected.
During an often tense and heated Liverpool Council planning committee meeting, councillors refused to sign off on proposals for two six storey buildings comprising more than 180 student bedrooms and 105 apartments on Falkner Street. The move was loudly welcomed by campaigners from L8 Matters Community Land Trust and residents who made their voices heard outside the Town Hall with placards ahead of the committee meeting.
Council officer Fergal McEvoy told the chamber the site was in a purely residential area and as a result, the application had the support of officers. It was said the site occupies two buildings which would be demolished; a former probation centre built in the 1990s, and a former church built in the early 2000s, together with surface car parking.
