McLaughlin & Harvey building scheme while Wates will construct hotel for passengers
New images of a planned Liverpool cruise liner terminal have been released ahead of a planning application for work to start on the site in the River Mersey.
Belfast contractor McLaughlin & Harvey has won the deal to build a 拢50m cruise terminal on the banks of the river Mersey.
Architect Stride Treglown, working with engineer Ramboll, will submit a reserved matters application next month. Outline permission was granted by the city council in April.
Ramboll is joined by planning consultant JLL and QS Turner & Townsend.
The Liverpool Cruise Terminal will be built within Peel Holdings鈥� 拢5.5bn Liverpool Waters area which is being masterplanned by Planit-IE after Chapman Taylor was ditched.
It will include a 200-bed, four-star hotel, which will be built by Wates, as well as the passenger and baggage facility which includes a security and customs areas, lounge, caf茅, toilets, taxi rank and car park.
Stride Treglown director Gordon Tero said the concrete plinth on which the building sits was a 鈥渕odern interpretation of the old dock walls鈥�.
He added: 鈥淲e designed the new terminal to be open and outward-looking. Expansive glass walls frame far-reaching views across the city and out to the Irish Sea, and a zinc skin will shimmer with tones of the River Mersey.鈥�
Steve Rotheram, metro mayor of the Liverpool city region, said: 鈥淭he new cruise liner terminal is a key element in plans to further boost our flourishing visitor economy, which is now worth more than 拢4.5bn a year to the city region鈥檚 economy and provides more than 53,000 jobs.
鈥淎ttracting more visitors, in bigger ships, will give a boost not just to businesses in the city centre, but around the city region, indirectly creating additional jobs for local people across the supply chain.鈥�
Site preparation works for the new facilities are expected to start in the new year, subject to approval of the Harbour Revision Order.
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