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Towers set for former Gregsons Well site in Low Hill Hundreds of new flats could be built on a hilltop site above the city centre.Developers Ascot Property Group want to build a £40m block containing 316 apartments and 80 student flats on land at Low Hill, Kensington.The site includes the remains of the former Gregsons Well pub as well as other derelict buildings that were used a builders’ merchants. Most of the site is currently used as a car park by workers on the new Royal Liverpool Hospital.The buildings, designed by architects Brock Carmichael, would form a U-shape around the edge of the site, rising to a height of seven stories at its peak overlooking the city centre. There would be car parking inside the courtyard, with a communal garden on the sixth floor.An earlier application for the site was submitted in 2015 but was withdrawn after concerns over its scale.The latest planning application was submitted earlier this year and will be debated at next week’s Liverpool Council planning meeting – where officers have recommended that it should be approved.In 2014 the ECHO reported that Merseytravel was selling the Gregsons Well pub site for £18,000, despite having spent more than £100,000 buying it as part of the doomed Merseytram scheme.