pjmulholland said:
Is that site really big enough for an extension of any meaningful size?
Oh well, thanks anyway Awayo.
Seems as if the extension must have been an earlier plan I'd read about when Warner bought Cavern Walks.
This was in the Echo more recently:
1.2m plan for site of original Cavern: "1.2m plan for site of original Cavern Sep 22 2004
1.2m plan for site of original Cavern Sep 22 2004
By Mark Hookham, Liverpool Echo
PART of the original Cavern Club site in Mathew Street is to become a £1.2m restaurant and office complex.
Work has started to clear an area once partly occupied by the club where the Beatles perfected their live routine.
Workmen are digging a five-metre deep hole in preparation for new foundations.
It is hoped the restaurant, under four floors of offices, will include original brickwork and mementoes from the club.
The work, by Liverpool company Iliad, is expected to be finished by next August.
The original brick-lined Cavern cellar was demolished in 1973, despite protests, to make way for the underground railway line. The site is now a car park.
The new development was welcomed by Beatles tour guide Phil Coppell, who said: "It should never have been knocked down in the first place.
"It was a very short-sighted view by the council. At the time one councillor even said 'what have the Beatles ever done for us?'
"I think it's good they are at last doing something with it."
The current Cavern club, a replica of the original, will remain open for business.
The Beatles played their final Cavern gig - the last of 292 - in 1963.
A spokesman for Iliad was unavailable for comment.