Stunned at more stunting.

TO: tenstreets@liverpool.gov.uk, Planning@liverpool.gov.uk, joe.anderson@liverpool.gov.uk

 

Hi,

I've just seen the planning application 20F/2230 and I am appalled, this is just another example of the council stunting the growth of Liverpool. The ambition of the original scheme was great the stump that it has been cut down to is pathetic and reflects the lack of ambition the council has for the city and the myopic view of some departments.

In the application, it is claimed that the truncation is down to the location of the building on the Liverpool Waters & Ten Streets Zone. Looking at the map in your own documents this does not appear to be true, it appears to be towards the south end of an area marked as "city fringe".

This application looked to bring a hotel and other facilities to the area, providing facilities for tourists to take advantage of the "cultural" area and to provide accommodation for those working there. The ten streets future is more than like the same cultural-based veneer that is wearing thin in the Baltic Triangle, where the reality an alcohol-fueled economy has become more apparent.

Keeping an area if the city in semi dereliction so the suburban hordes can feel a bit urban, edgy and BoHo only serves their egos and does little or nothing for the residents of the city centre or the city as a whole. This seem to be a pre-emptive cave into the faux intelligence of Liverpool's cultural mafia and yet another triumph for the council's height reduction committee.
For buildings promoted in Liverpool, this was ambitious and forward-looking adding to the already impressive waterfront, but as has frequently been the case that ambition had to rubbed out. The council has not learnt from the early 80s when its policy allowed tracts of suburbia to be constructed in place urban development when it substituted the bungalow in place of housing at an urban density. The results of which we still live with as estates confine the city centre, limiting the city.

Pathetic.