Restaurant Plan For Liverpool Dock Gets Green Light
The transformation of a Grade II* listed building in Liverpool’s docklands into a 200-seat waterfront restaurant has been approved, continuing the transformation of the area as more and more property development finance is poured into it.
Stanley Dock Properties has gained planning permission from Liverpool City Council for the transformation of the hydraulic pumphouse station in Stanley Dock. It will now spend £120 million refurbishing the Victorian building as a 410 sq m restaurant.
Among the features of the space inside the building will be an inner atrium with a 23 ft high ceiling for a bar and extra tables, while a galleried mezzanine floor in the boiler house will add further dining space. The engine room dining will also be part of the dining space, with a 36 ft high roof, while the brick chimney and part of the boiler room will form an open plan kitchen.
Director of Stanley Dock properties Pat Power said: “This will be a major restoration project as the Pumphouse is in need of a new roof and other structural interventions in order to return it to beneficial use.”
The scheme is part of a wider £250 million regeneration of Stanley Dock, which lies in the northern part of the city’s docklands. Other developments in the vicinity include the Titanic Hotel Liverpool.
While Liverpool’s central docklands area has already been substantially redeveloped with tourist friendly attractions such as Tate Liverpool, the Museum of Liverpool and the city’s Maritime Museum, the northern docks are in the early stages of regeneration.
However, a number of notable projects are taking place there, the largest being the construction of a 54,000-seat stadium in Bramley Moore Dock for Everton Football Club.
The southern part of the docklands has also been undergoing major development in recent years, particularly around the Baltic Triangle.
Further development of that area may be aided in the years to come by the establishment of a new Merseyrail station in the vicinity, to be named Liverpool Baltic after a public vote on its title.
It will be located at the site of the old St James Station, which was in use from 1874 until the First World War.