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Major apartment schemes set for green light" />CGI of the YPG scheme approved in December 2016 (left) and the new-look plans (right) Proposals to create more than 400 apartments across two major schemes at opposite ends of Liverpool city centre look set to secure the green light. Liverpool City Council 's planning committee will discuss separate residential -led applications by YPG Devon House and Eloquent Global as part of its next meeting on Tuesday, 29 August 2017. YPG Devon House is seeking full planning permission to demolish existing warehouse buildings on an L-shaped site at 33 Devon Street near the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to the north of the city centre to pave the way for a new development. The Smith Young- designed scheme involves creating 218 student studios and two ground- floor commercial units across a new eight- to ten-storey building. The site has been the subject of several student- focused planning applications in recent years, inc...

Drawing the lines in battle over space By Jeff Simms Scenic Hudson is hoping to nearly double the parking at the base of Mount Beacon to ease congestion at one of the Highlands’ most popular hiking spots . Meanwhile, the Beacon City Council and a developer clashed over who should provide spaces for a new 24- unit apartment building on Main Street. Mount Beacon Representatives from Scenic Hudson appeared before the Planning Board earlier this month to discuss plans to expand the lot at the park from 40 spaces to 77. The project, if approved, would be completed this winter, said Meg Rasmussen, a park planner for the nonprofit conservation group . It would involve moving the Howland Avenue lot entrance farther away from Route 9D and turning it into an exit. Cars routinely line Howland on holidays and weekends when the park’s lot is full. An overflow area north of the lot will be off-limits (it was recently determined to be wetlands), while the existing lot will be widened and orien...