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Glenn Howells submits new Liverpool station designs

Glenn Howells Architects has revealed its revised plans for Liverpool's Lime Street Station Gateway project – without the original tower, which was scrapped over costs earlier this year.

The new design is an extensive public realm project that will improve access to the station as well as provide pedestrian links into the city.

Initial designs included a 27-storey residential tower, but due to rises in construction costs the building was dropped from the plans.

According to English Partnerships, which is spearheading the project, the new station will 'transform the landscape' of the city while revealing its 'splendid Victorian frontage'.

English Partnerships area director Eliot Lewis-Ward said: 'It is a complex project, but when completed it will provide the city with a Gateway of which it can be truly proud.'

The scheme was submitted to Liverpool City Council in December and, subject to planning approval, work will begin in the spring, with construction on the new public realm due to start in 2009.


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Added: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:42 GMT
John Cox, Walton on Thames, United Kingdom

What is it about Liverpool...? - that so many of its citizens appear to wish it were not really a city at all, but some small country-town. No doubt they would like to limit the extent of its built-up-area to 3 miles from the Pier Head' and probably the height of every new building to a maximum of 4 stories.

Ken Dodd was right all along - most Scousers are "Diddy-Men"...! They seem to have what I can only call a "Littlepool"-complex...

But my, how they must have changed... Certainly, in the early 20th century, the people who built the Liver Building - (europe's first steel-core skyscraper) - were no "Diddy-Men...!"


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Added: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:29 GMT
John Cox, Walton on Thames, United Kingdom


THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS...! You're asking far too many questions. When will you let me off the hook to begin reading and participating without this incessent badgering...? It's making me sick.


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Added: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:14 GMT
David Swift, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Actually, most people in Liverpool are glad that the multi-storey building is not going to happen. By all means demolish the existing 1960s Concourse House which, along with its frontage, is an absolute disaster. When the original Lime Street railway station facade is opened up it will look wonderful on its own. By leaving the adjoining space vacant there will be much improved views along Lime Street and better public access. So I say get on with demolishing the ugly Concourse House and then see how much better our gateway to Liverpool will look in wonderful isolation. Yours, David Swift


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Added: Monday, 14 January 2008 14:52 GMT
Aidan Grehan, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Having seen the original plans for the twenty seven storey tower block adjacent to lime street station I was excited that the centre of liverpool could have been changing for the better and begining to produce world class buildings along side its already renound classical ones such as St. Georges Hall. As a resident of Liverpool I along with many others are very disappointed that the scheme will not come to life and also with the scheme that has been put in its place. If funds are the reason that the original plans failed then I would prefer nothing was done untill a new backer was found and then Liverpool could have a gateway that gave a better impression of the city.


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