Owner of Bramley Moore marquee plans warehouse venue next door

The team behind the controversial hospitality marquee opposite Bramley Moore Stadium plans to open a second venue in a nearby warehouse.

The Ambrose Magrath warehouse at 4-6 Fulton Street will become a hospitality and bar venue hosting up to 480 people on match days if the planning permission is awarded. The plans include two revamped floors on the warehouse including kitchen areas, a bar, and toilet facilities.

The application says: “Proposed change of use from disused warehouse to licensed premises for Entertainment, consumption of alcohol and provision of food from 09:00 to 23:00 hours for a maximum of 480 persons and alterations to form new toilets, including accessible toilets and kitchens and external alterations to the Fulton Street elevation.”

The applicant behind the plans is Gary Hincks, who is also behind the plans to build the hospitality marquee in Terry’s TImber. The plans have proved controversial because of Hinck’s links to the local Reform Party, where he stood as candidate in the most recent elections.

Hincks has previously been behind Jurgen’s Bar, a Liverpool FC-themed pub on The Strand in Liverpool. It recently changed its name to the Three Graces. He has previously been an owner of nine Liverpool-based hospitality companies that have been dissolved including ‘Famous Reds Limited’.

His current business interests include a Directorship of Meat Leisure Limited on 50 Brunswick Street. However, he is not listed as a director of MerseyView, which is operating the marquee plans, despite acting as a spokesperson for the venue in media interviews.

The marquee and new warehouse have been labelled as unofficial hospitality for the new Hill Dickinson Stadium. They join the container bar named ‘Howard Kendall Suites’ on Collingwood Dock as some of several new ventures opening near the stadium offering fans unofficial hospitality pre and post match.