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Everton FC’s £505m stadium plans approved – but call-in is urged
1/9 South stand - aerial view. Revised proposals, August 2020
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6/9 The original designs submitted for planning last year (left) and the reworked scheme as revealed August 2020 (right)
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Liverpool City Council has unanimously approved Pattern Design’s proposed £505 million stadium for Everton Football Club, despite warnings it would harm the city’s World Heritage Site
Historic England, which had objected to the proposal earmarked for the Grade II-listed Bramley-Moore Dock, has reiterated its demands for communities secretary Robert Jenrick to call in the plans.
Liverpool City Council has earmarked the club’s proposed 53,000-capacity stadium for approval, setting aside conservation groups' concerns about the harm it could cause to the listed Bramley-Moore Dock.
Dan Whelan
Liverpool City Council has earmarked the club’s proposed 53,000-capacity stadium for approval, setting aside conservation groups’ concerns about the harm it could cause to the listed Bramley-Moore Dock.
The council is meeting on 23 February to discuss the £500m project and, if it decides to approve the plans, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government will have 21 days to review the application because of its scale.
If both parties give the project the green light, main contractor Laing O’Rourke hopes to start construction as early as this spring.
In a 200-page report to the council’s planning committee, officers acknowledged that the project, which sits within Peel L&P’s Liverpool Waters development, would cause “varying degrees of harm to heritage assets and would thereby contravene heritage policies of the development plan”.
By Tom Lowe2020-12-16T07:30:00+00:00
Covid-19 and sheer size of planning application blamed for delay
Everton fans will have to wait until next year to find out if the club’s new £500m stadium will be approved by planners after Liverpool council confirmed the decision has been delayed.
Proposals for the Toffees’ 53,000-seat new home at Liverpool’s grade II-listed Bramley-Moore Dock were expected to be either approved or rejected by the end of this year with a main contractor lined up fpr the project designed by US architet Dan Meis and London-based Pattern Design..
In an update to supporters in August, the club’s stadium development director Colin Chong said that the sheer size of the scheme’s planning application - one of the largest ever received by the council - meant that a special planning committee might have to be convened “towards the end of the year” to make a decision on the scheme.