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Hotel wait goes on as Allerton Manor owners make new plans

New plans have been submitted to the council as Allerton Manor's owners say they are still committed to delivering a hotel on a the site

[The new design for the hotel at Allerton Manor Golf Club would see a large glass extension added to the original manor house. ]

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The new design for the hotel at Allerton Manor Golf Club would see a large glass extension added to the original manor house.

A decision is due on a new event space at a former Liverpool Council-run golf course where major hotel plans have run into delays. It was revealed earlier this year how despite more than two years passing since approval for a new extension at Allerton Manor Golf Club were approved, work has been slow.

In December 2022, the city council rejected a plan lodged by Allerton Golf Trading to construct a four-storey extension above its Grade II listed Manor House structure to accommodate a new hotel and basement spa. In doing so, the now planning committee chair, Cllr Tom Cardwell, likened the plans to a big glass box and Milton Keynes train station.

Now, with hotel work yet to be delivered, the course operators are seeking permission from the citys planning officials to put up a 5,000sqft marquee to stage events for the next three years. An initial bid was lodged back in 2022 when hotel plans came forward.

In a covering letter alongside the application, Richard Gee, director of Roman Summer Associates, acting on behalf of the golf company, said temporary planning permission did not move forward owing to the influence of economic factors and very extensive golf course works on site. He wrote: Those course works have been ongoing for the past few years and are now largely complete, which in turn has triggered our clients focus on delivering the approved hotel.

Mr Gee said how the gradual rather than immediate recovery of the visitor economy in the Liverpool City Region alongside increased costs and cautious investors had also led the hotel to run into delays. In the interim, in order to service ongoing events and functions, an alternative temporary marquee has been in place at the front of the manor but does not have planning permission.

This led to all events being cancelled and plans for it to be removed.

Allerton Golf Trading is now seeking permission to put up a new temporary structure for three years. It would be located on land used as a service yard for the golf course.

This area is described as currently overgrown and unsightly.

The marquee would be used for drinking, dining and special events, serving 136 people.

One main set of entrance doors would be provided alongside a temporary external smoking area and male and female toilet facilities.

Mr Gee's letter said the three-year time frame was a "worst case" scenario, with a view to the hotel being delivered before then and the marquee removed.

It added: "While it remains the applicant's intention to deliver the approved hotel scheme, the timing of delivery is influenced by wider macro-economic factors that sit beyond the applicant's direct control."

According to a planning report to be considered by the city councils committee next week, the principal issue raised by residents and the ward councillor relates to noise and disturbance, with objections citing previous experiences of amplified music, late night activity, traffic and fireworks.

A noise impact assessment concluded that the proposed location would benefit from greater acoustic screening than the previous marquee, and Environmental Health raised no objection subject to a range of mitigation measures and planning conditions.

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