Liverpool councillors give unanimous approval for new hotel just yards away from Everton FC’s £750m stadium, that will incorporate an existing Grade II-listed building. Tony McDonough reports

Image of the proposed Fulton Street Hotel from planning documents

Plans for a new 80-bedroom hotel just yards from Everton FC’s new £750m stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool Waters have secured unanimous approval.

Councillor’s on Liverpool City Council’s planning committee gave the green light to the multi-million pound project when they met on Tuesday. This project will see the conversion of a Grade II-listed warehouse and a five-storey new build.

Developer Rohan Hughes, owner of property venture Hughes Jones Watkinson, hired Atelier 2 Architecture to come up with a design for the hotel at 15-17 Fulton Street with the five-storey new build extension attached.

This development will see the creation of 32 bedrooms in the original Victorian building and a further 48 in the new block.

It is proposed that a spa reception, pool and treatment rooms be located in the basement of the building. The ground floor would house the reception bar. It will also include seven car parking spaces.

In the application, Atelier 2 Architecture said: “Currently the application site is vacant and as such is underutilised regarding the potential jobs it could support.

“The proposed scheme would not only provide jobs within the hotel, but also for the wider city through the additional servicing that would be required.

“The spa and bar facilities proposed would also create further jobs than those solely related to the management and upkeep of the hotel.”

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This proposed hotel sits within the city council’s Ten Streets development zone which will see a significant boost from the stadium. Everton expects to kick off the 2025/26 football season at the 52,888-capacity arena in August 2025.

This scheme will add more capacity to Liverpool’s booming hotel sector which in the past few years has grown from around 2,000 beds to almost 10,000 beds. It has been boosted by the launch of the Liverpool Accommodation BID.