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A Liverpool nightclub says plans to build 200 flats next door could damage its business.

Songbird, part of Liverpool’s Iliad Group, has applied for planning permission to build two blocks on land between Blundell Street, Kitchen Street and Simpson Street in the Baltic Triangle .

But the owners of music and arts venue 24 Kitchen Street are pleading with planners to stop the scheme.

The Songbird scheme will go before planners next week.

A report from planning officers to councillors says 24 Kitchen Street, which has a rooftop garden and an enclosed outdoor courtyard, has lodged a “strong objection” to the Songbird scheme.

The report says: “They believe that the proposed introduction of a major new housing development in this location is not appropriate or compatible with their existing nightclub.

“There is a serious risk that allowing such a development would lead to undesirable noise impacts on future residents, ultimately leading to complaints and pressure to curtail or control 24 Kitchen

Street’s legitimate business activities.”

The club says it should be up to the developer to ensure the new buildings include measures to ensure residents aren’t affected by noise.

(Image: Tim Groom architects)

And it suggests that if planning is approved, a condition should be attached to it meaning residents waive their right to complain about noise from the club. A similar condition was imposed in 2014 on a housing development next to the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London.

24 Kitchen Street, which is licensed until 4am, has told the council that the developer’s noise assessment: “Contains many flaws, including the fact that it does not consider the rooftop garden area and sound readings in the street were not taken when the venue closes and people leaving the venue create perhaps the most significant level of noise.”

And the club says Blundell Street should be seen as a “leisure corridor” unsuitable for residential development.

The Baltic Triangle is a formerly industrial area that has in recent years become home to many creative and digital businesses as well as venues from 24 Kitchen Street to Camp & Furnace.

Songbird’s application includes two seven-nine storey blocks including a total of 200 apartments. The scheme would also include four commercial units on the ground floor.

Planners are recommending that the planning committee approves the scheme at their meeting on Tuesday.

Their report says: “The Interim Head of Planning is satisfied that the proposed use would not unduly affect the operation of 24 Kitchen Street or other nearby entertainment uses.

“Furthermore, he considers that the offer of circa 500 sqm of commercial – including 160sqm of workspace – to be a positive attribute of the scheme which ties in well with the council’s aspirations to promote job creating uses within the Baltic area.”

The planners say “The scale and massing of this 200 bed apartment block is significant and will have a bearing upon the appearance and character of the Baltic Triangle.”

The height of the planned building has been reduced to nine storeys, in line with other developments in the area.

The proposed flats also sit near the planned new Higsons brewery and the existing Black Lodge microbrewery.