Contractor chosen for £40m transformation of Liverpool’s Wolstenholme Square

Merseyside building firm Newry Construction has been confirmed as the main contractor on the multi-million pound project to overhaul Liverpool’s Wolstenholme Square.

Newry’s appointment follows the recent demolition, carried out by Liverpool-firm Mee Group, of a cluster of post-war warehouses on the site.

Elliot Group, the Liverpool-based developer driving the £40m scheme, chose Newry for the task after working with the firm on a number of past projects.

Director Elliot Lawless said of the decision: “Newry Construction have performed time and again for us and were able to demonstrate how they could apply the same methodology to deliver quality and value at Wolstenholme Square.”

Construction work on the development will get underway in August and is due to take 18 months to complete.

Elsewhere, White Young Green has been brought on board as employer’s agent and project manager. Clancy, meanwhile, has been appointed in the role of civil and structural engineers, joining service engineers Abacus.

Neil Swanson, from Salford- and London-based urban design company Landscape Projects, has been tasked with working alongside with Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo to refurbish Wolstenholme Square’s distinctive Penelope sculpture and deliver associated landscape works.

The Liverpool office of law firm Hill Dickinson is managing all the project’s contractual elements.

Once complete, the development will comprise five blocks ranging from three to 10 storeys offering 447 studio and one-bed apartments, in addition to a new passageway lined with shops and cafes to connect the square with nearby Seel Street.

North West architects Falconer Chester Hall designed the scheme.

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