Everton FC has amended some elements of the original designs for its Bramley-Moore Dock stadium in Liverpool
The past few months Everton FC has been responding to planning queries for the Bramley-Moore Dock stadium and has established a technical and delivery team in anticipation of planning approval.
Following a detailed and comprehensive tender process, Laing O’Rourke was appointed as the preferred building contractor. Through their own transparent tender process, they appointed Pattern as the project’s technical architect, working and engaging directly with Laing O’Rourke.
Buro Happold and Planit-IE have been retained as engineering consultants and landscape architects respectively.
Representatives from across this project team have recently been on-site carrying out several further surveys on the land and existing structures.
Planning application update
The scale and detail of the planning application for Bramley-Moore Dock make it one of the largest the local authority has ever received.
Over the past few months, Liverpool City Council’s planning department has been consulting on the applications with the Liverpool public, along with neighbouring authorities, emergency services, heritage and environmental organisations and other regional and national stakeholders.
As part of this process – and to address some of the feedback from consultees – Everton FC has been working with the council and other agencies to amend some elements of the designs that were originally consulted on and submitted as part of the application.
The updated designs for Bramley-Moore Dock stadium will be formally submitted to the council in early September and some of the new visuals can be viewed above and below.
Colin Chong, stadium development director for Everton FC, said: “While these updated plans will not require the submission of a full new planning application, they will require a formal public consultation on the revised elements.
“This consultation, led by the council, is anticipated to last 28 days and will be an opportunity for everyone to comment on these additional features.
“Following this, and due to the size of the application, Liverpool City Council may need to convene a special planning committee meeting towards the end of the year to give their determination to our application.
“The detail of this determination is likely to dictate whether the application will also need to be reviewed by central Government.”
