Peel: Everton fans should 'watch this space' on waterside stadium plan
Liverpool Waters owner still in talks with club as Everton prepares to decide on new home
- 05:00, 29 DEC 2016
- Updated20:55, 28 DEC 2016
Ian Pollitt, from Peel, third from left, with Everton chairman Bill Kenwright, fourth from left, and majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri, second from right, at Bramley Moore dock in October
Peel says discussions with
Everton about
a new club stadium are ongoing and fans should “watch this space”.
And the developer says it will press ahead with the £5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme whether the club moves to the docks or not.
Everton is considering two new sites for its new home – Bramley-Moore Dock, on the Mersey waterfront north of the city centre, and Stonebridge Cross.
The Liverpool Waters development, on land between Princes Dock and the Port of Liverpool, featuers skyscrapers, office blocks and housing.
In Peel’s masterplan the area around Bramley-Moore dock has been earmarked for housing.
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A CGI of how Liverpool Waters could look with Bramley Moore on the left. Picture supplied by Peel
Liverpool Waters assistant project director Ian Pollitt was pictured at Bramley-Moore dock in October when Everton’s majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri and chairman Bill Kenwright visited the site.
Asked about Peel’s involvement with the club he said: “We are talking to Everton. We are in discussions with them. It’s been ongoing.
“It would be good to see it in our development. But if it didn’t happen we’re quite confident we can do the development without them.
“It’s something we’d like to see there. So we’re working with Everton and the city on that. So watch this space.”
Everton is expected to make a decision on which stadium site to pursue early in the New Year.
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Last week the club’s stadium architect Dan Meis sparked a debate
over what Everton’s future home could look like.
While at Goodison for the derby New York-based Mr Meis tweeted a picture of a column with the hashtag #nocolumnsinthebowl
While Mr Meis has designed four-sided American football stadia in Cincinatti and Philadelphia, his only major European project so far is the proposed bowl-shaped Stadio della Roma.
Asked if that meant the new stadium would be a bowl, he replied: “No...steep intimate seating directly adjacent to the pitch can be done without columns.”
And he later confirmed: “‘Bowl” is a generic term for seating/stands...not the shape or geometry. Will not be a bowl.”
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Liverpool Waters has been almost a decade in the planning but Mr Pollit and his team have been working hard behind the scenes.
In September Moda Living won planning permission for an £82m skyscraper at Princes Dock. Just weeks later, Your Housing Group revealed plans to build a
30-storey apartment block, called The Hive - City Docks, next door. Plans for another tall tower at Princes Dock are also understood to be well advanced.