Liscard Hall
A LISTED building in Wirral, gutted by fire after being allowed to fall into disrepair, is expected to be replaced by landscaping.
Liscard Hall, in Wallasey’s Central Park, was destroyed by fire in July, 2008, and had to be demolished because of safety fears.
The council said the Grade II listed building was so badly damaged it needed to be torn down – but the site has remained grassed over since then while local campaigners have waited for the authority to make a decision on the site’s future.
The cash to complete any works on the site would come from the insurance pay-out for the hall, which totalled £117,810, although, minus costs of the demolition, around £80,000 remains.
Built in 1835 as the rural home for one-time Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Sir John Tobin, the building had been marketed by Wirral Council a year before it was destroyed.
The authority published a glossy “development brief” which was distributed throughout Europe describing a “substantial property in a prime location”, and “a rare opportunity to utilise a grand mansion set in attractive parkland surroundings”. A report to the ruling cabinet by Bill Norman, the council’s director of law, says the prospects of constructing a new building on the site “are extremely limited”.
