A huge new super-restaurant is set to open on Liverpool’s waterfront.
A £120m restaurant has been granted planning permission from Liverpool City Council. The 200-seat venue will transform the historic Grade II* listed Victorian Hydraulic Pumphouse Station on Stanley Dock.
The interior of the Pumphouse has four distinct spaces - an entrance hall, boiler room, accumulator tower and engine room. The new design will see the restoration of the entrance hall, with a large existing feature doorway, which will lead into the main dining space.
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The main dining space will consist of the boiler room, with a new contemporary glazed extension creating a glass walled space with an 18.5ft-high glass ceiling overlooking the dock. Glazed doors will also open onto an outside waterfront dining terrace.
An inner atrium with a 23ft high ceiling, which will house dining and a cocktail bar, will connect the glazed extension and original brick boiler house. There will also be a galleried mezzanine floor installed in the boiler house to create a dining area with feature brick walls on the lower level.
On the upper level there will be a private dining space, lounge areas and guest cloakrooms and toilets. The engine room will also be transformed into a dining space with a 36ft-high ceiling with a new feature roof.
The brick chimney and part of the boiler room will be converted into a stunning open plan professional chef’s kitchen for the restaurant, which customers will be able to see from the dining area. The super-restaurant is part of the £250 million regeneration of Stanley Dock into the city’s most exclusive address providing hotel, restaurants and new homes. The designs for the new restaurant in the Pumphouse were devised by award winning architectural practice Darmody Architecture.
Pat Power, director at Stanley Dock Properties, said: “Stanley Dock Properties are delighted to have been granted detailed planning consent by Liverpool City Council to restore and transform the Grade II* listed historic Pumphouse at Stanley Dock into a new destination restaurant which we believe will become the finest waterfront eatery in the city. This restoration project is part of the regeneration of Stanley Dock into the most exclusive residential and leisure destination in Liverpool.”
The new restaurant will be around 4,400 sq ft and able to seat up to 200 people. Further details are expected soon.
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