Ten Streets consultation ends next month

Ten streets liverpool's new creative district cgi

A public consultation on plans to turn a 50ha plot in a deprived part of Liverpool into a new creative district begins this week.

The Ten Streets area comprises former dockland between the northern edge of the city centre and the Tobacco warehouse at Stanley Dock. It sits in the poorest ward in the UK, Kirkdale, but has the potential for up to 100,000 sq m of development, according to Liverpool council.

Ten Streets is also next door to Peel鈥檚 拢5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme, which has been masterplanned by Chapman Taylor, and is less than a mile from Bramley Moore Dock, the proposed new home for Everton Football Club, which is expected to submit a planning application for the site early next year.

The consultation begins tomorrow (Tuesday) with the deadline for responses set for 21 November.

Architect Shed KM and How Planning have been appointed by the council to shape a new 鈥渃reativity district鈥� in the city. The pair will establish a planning framework and development principles for the area.

Parisian architectural practice AWP has already been hired for the Ten Streets scheme, working with Harcourt Developments, the city鈥檚 development partner for the project.

Part of the Ten Streets site lies within the city鈥檚 World Heritage boundary and last week the city set up a taskforce to head off the threat of being dropped from Unesco鈥檚 list of cities with world heritage status.

The heritage group gave the city a final warning earlier this year, saying it would be removed from the list of world heritage sites as early as 2018 unless the city reconsidered plans for its historic Docklands area.

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