PLANS for a multi-million pound teaching laboratory at the University of Liverpool were approved yesterday.
The five-storey development, which will include three floors of teaching, learning, research and laboratory space, will be next to the current science lecture building.
University bosses say it will also be open to schools and community groups.
Liverpool Council’s planning committee heard the facility will be built off Crown Street, at the heart of the university’s city centre campus.
The Russell Group institution is still awaiting a decision on its plans for a £45m, seven-storey accommodation block to be located on the corner of Myrtle Street and Grove Street.
Councillors have yet to decide on the residential scheme, having rejected the £25,000 sum the university offered the council towards dealing with parking issues generated by the development as too small.
That plan has also generated a number of objections, whereas only one was received against the science laboratory.
Planning officer John Berbow told the committee the science block scheme was “well away from the residential development, right in the heart of the university campus bounded by libraries on either side”.
