Boutique hotel gets restricted licence

Apr 30 2008 by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

A NEW boutique hotel in the heart of a Wirral conservation area has been given permission to allow late night entertainment in its grounds.

The owners of the new Leverhulme Hotel in Port Sunlight had applied for 24-hour drinks and entertainment licence.

Sunlight Lodge, as it was known, was designed by famed Liverpool Architects Grayson & Ould, and originally built as a cottage hospital in 1907 but had fallen into disrepair.

After liaising with architects, the area’s conservation group initially backed the plans and called the hotel “very compatible with the village”.

But the licensing application caused unrest and the Port Sunlight Residents and Conservation Society made a formal objec-tion to Wirral Council’s licensing committee.

The application was heard last week but the licensing committee delayed a decision to allow a site visit last Friday.

The committee has now allowed most of the application, with a restriction on providing entertainment in the grounds from midnight to 9am.