Hall Lane bottleneck solution given go-ahead

[Ged]

It'll probably look a mess. If that church is staying on the corner of Durning Road, I don't see how the widening process is going to happen at that point?

[Cadfael]

It'll probably look a mess. If that church is staying on the corner of Durning Road, I don't see how the widening process is going to happen at that point?

Exactly the point that Elizabeth Pascoe started campaigning for. She said that she would lose her house because they were initially going to demolish the church, and then found out that the council themselves had listed the church and couldn't touch it.

That's the biggest problem with the whole of Edge Lane. They can knock down the whole of Edge Hill if they wanted to, but they cannot get around the bottle neck of the church at all - which is one of the worst areas.

I've had my eye on the church for a while but as yet, no mysterious or accidental fires have been started so it would have to be demolished...

[Ged]

Listing buildings and then de-listing them for demolition purposes has never stopped the council in the past though Cad.

[Cadfael]

Indeed - but everyone I know of who campaigned for the alternative Edge Lane scheme is now watching that church very closely. Not just local residents but Save Britain's Heritage/English Heritage for a start.

A report on the state of the church can be found here from 2003:

http://www.edge-lane.info/#/save-our...age/4531095014

It lists the church as being in a bad way, some have said that this was purposely left to rot to fall down in time for this grand scheme.
As we'll see it, we'll get some new prefab houses along Edge Lane bunched up to a historic Grade 2 listed church.

[wsteve55]

Listing buildings and then de-listing them for demolition purposes has never stopped the council in the past though Cad.

Josephine Butler house,being a recent example! (Maghull developments(?) being responsible for that one!)

[fortinian]

A little off topic unless you class the Edge Lane widening as one of the same with the Hall Lane bottleneck as that's where it becomes Hall Lane, at the end of Edge Lane.

True enough, they are both part of the "big picture" but the Hall Lane Bottleneck is a specific part of the project and as such has its own thread.

Josephine Butler house,being a recent example! (Maghull developments(?) being responsible for that one!)

That was a travesty.