Slide To Raise Money For The Homeless Of Liverpool

A bid has been launched to put a giant outdoor slide on the Shankly Hotel in Victoria Street, Liverpool, and the new attraction will help raise money for the city’s homeless.

The slide would spiral down from the hotel’s rooftop terrace to street level at Whitechapel. The tube would be partly clear so sliders could get views of the city as they speed towards the ground. According to a report in the Liverpool Echo, the developer, Signature Living, says it plans to give the money it raises from the slide to charity the Whitechapel Centre, which helps homeless people and rough sleepers in Liverpool.

In 2015 the company, led by Lawrence Kenwright, revealed plans for a rooftop extension that included a 100ft chrome slide called The Serpent descending to the floor. The plans for the extension changed as it was being built and so Signature applied for planning permission to revise the plans – this time not including the slide or a “rooftop projecting hot tub”. The revised plan was approved by councillors earlier this year.

But now Signature has returned to the council to ask for permission to build a slide of a slightly different design. The new slide appears to be less of a dramatic corkscrew than the original, which would have spun sliders some seven times around the central pole. The new images show a tubular slide that wraps three times around the pole.

A Signature Living spokesperson said: “As per the original plans, the slide forms part of the hotel’s new Eden offering – a wedding, conference and bar venue that makes innovative use of the hotel’s rooftop space. It’s an exciting, unique offering in Liverpool that will tempt more people to engage with the Signature brand.

“Money raised from the slide will be given to The Whitechapel Centre, Signature Living’s new charity partner. Signature Living is aiming to raise £500,000 a year for the organisation, which is the region’s leading homelessness charity.”