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Leaf on Bold Street, Liverpool(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\nNew images show the old Leaf site’s front completely transformedLeaf on Bold Street, Liverpool(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
Restaurant chain Loungers has submitted a planning application to Liverpool City Council to occupy the old Leaf site on Bold Street.<\/a> New images show how the venue could transform under the caf\u00e9-bar group, with proposals for new signage and lights on the buildings front.<\/p>\n Leaf<\/a> closed for good on Sunday, September 21, after more than 15 years of trading in the city centre. The venue, run by siblings Natalie and Graham Haywood<\/a>, first opened in 2010 and expanded across the city to Smithdown Road and West Kirby<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, the ECHO reported how<\/a> the West Kirby<\/a> branch had closed citing financial struggles<\/a> and a “fragile industry” that looked “bleaker than ever”. Natalie confirmed that the company would focus on its remaining sites following the closure.<\/p>\n Loungers is among those interested and is “hopeful” about taking over. The group has sites including Milo Lounge on Lark Lane and Brasco Lounge on Mann Island in Liverpool.<\/p>\n Loungers’s planning application <\/a>includes a silver mirrored rail protruding from the base of the signage zone for the letters to sit on. The individual letters are to have off-white faces and silver mirrored returns and to be internally lit.<\/p>\n The main signage zone is to be an acrylic light box fixed flush to the wall in yellow with a mirrored silver frame. The light box is to be internally lit with flat cut silver mirrored metal zig zag overlay detail.<\/p>\n Toward the top of the building is to be double-sided projection signs with blue mould detailing and internally lit off white projecting letters, set on a mirrored chrome background panel. Illumination to letters to b in soft, warm white.<\/p>\n ‘Cafe’ and ‘Bar’ signs on either side of the main signage will be tiled in a small tiled section with blue moulding detail to top and bottom.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Loungers <\/a>previously told the ECHO:<\/a> \u201cWe are in advanced negotiations on a site on Bold Street, Liverpool. It\u2019s a great area and we are hopeful to join the local community by opening a Lounge and creating between 30-40 new jobs.<\/p>\n “Nothing is totally confirmed yet, however, for every Lounge we open, it\u2019s important to us that we give back to the community.<\/p>\n “We partner with local charities to raise funds, our spaces are used for meetings of local groups and businesses, and we encourage customers to use us as a community hub. We hope to have more information on the site on Bold Street soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New images show the old Leaf site’s front completely transformedLeaf on Bold Street, Liverpool(Image: Liverpool Echo) Restaurant chain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[35652,748,393,4884,179,2349,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-498514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-bold-street","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-city-centre","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115371966297868497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Planning](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_Planning-application-image-of-Lounges-Deco-Lounge-on-Bold-Street.jpg\")
Planning image of Deco Lounge on Bold Street(Image: Richard Pedlar Architects)<\/p>\n![\"Leaf](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760436380_146_0_Bold-Street.jpg\")
Leaf on Bold Street, Liverpool(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n