The club has taken a huge step towards realising its ambition to relocate from Goodison Park to a 53,000-capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool, after councillors brushed aside heritage-related concerns and granted the scheme planning consent.
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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”.