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    £24m house estate gets under way
    Jan 21 2008
    by Nick Coligan, Liverpool Echo



    A LONG-awaited scheme to build dozens of new homes in one of Liverpool’s most deprived areas has finally started.

    The £24m scheme will see a 175-house estate built off Gilead Street, Kensington.

    The first phase of almost 90 properties, which should be finished by the summer, is being constructed on a disused former playground and football pitch.

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    Why on earth would you spend so much time , money, planning and resourses to design houses with windows so small you can't see the world outside properly, are people in england so used to living in the dark they love it so much. the whole development looks like it consists of bog windows. what a great opportunity to light up lives wasted.


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    Quote Originally Posted by shoney View Post
    Why on earth would you spend so much time , money, planning and resourses to design houses with windows so small you can't see the world outside properly, are people in england so used to living in the dark they love it so much. the whole development looks like it consists of bog windows. what a great opportunity to light up lives wasted.


    I'm a time served builder brought up in liverpool but moved away seeing what the rest of the world does to makle their days brighter.
    I agree, It's partly why I go outside of Liverpool alot to photograph, alot of colourful houses are slowly dissapearing because companies and architects have no soul or talent.

    These kind of houses are already In Speke, Toxteth and under the bridge In Garston.
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    Dont tell im about Ellergreen on Lewisham Rd!

    Bright red shoeboxes with small peephole windows...reminds me of square pillboxes!

    The Kensington development will be an interesting one...I wonder how long the honeymoon period will last before we find these new properties are just more bricks and mortar...rather than a real solution.

    I am still of the impression that the Victorian's and Edwardian's had the right idea with the terrace. The streets were well laid out...and most of the time, the buildings had something of architectural merit.
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    I think Kenny is a district of liverpool that is coming too terms with demographic change's. I also think that Mc Govern and his ilk are highly manipulative. Hard case culture can be found in Newcastle Glasgow Manchester London, would'nt it be nice to have something different?
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    Kensington: A hotspot for crimes
    Feb 9 2009
    by Ben Rossington, Liverpool Echo



    KENSINGTON was today named as Liverpool?s guns and murder capital.

    The terraced streets lying on the edge of the city centre are one of five hotspots for the most serious types of violent crime across Merseyside.

    Other areas have suffered from one-off, high-profile crimes, but Kensington heads a new police report?s league of shame for the sheer amount of the biggest crimes.

    The area is named-and-shamed as having more murders and attempted murders and a bigger gun problem than the other four ? Liverpool city centre, Anfield, Toxteth and Birkenhead.

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    This thread reminds me of a song we sang many eons ago :-

    Little Boxes


    Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.
    Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
    one,
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just
    the same.

    And the people in the houses all went to the university
    Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.
    And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and there's business
    executives
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
    the same.

    And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
    And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
    And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
    Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

    And the boys to into business and marry and raise a family
    In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
    one
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
    the same.


    Who remembers it:- ????

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    Kensington?????



    Can anyone enlighten me to any links regarding gun crime and murders in Kenny as I thought it all seemed to be other areas?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Howie View Post
    Kensington: A hotspot for crimes
    Feb 9 2009
    by Ben Rossington, Liverpool Echo



    KENSINGTON was today named as Liverpool?s guns and murder capital.

    The terraced streets lying on the edge of the city centre are one of five hotspots for the most serious types of violent crime across Merseyside.
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    My comment would be first define where Kensington is. To me it has become a very amorphous undefined area. Once defined, we could then see how these stattistics stand up to scruntiny

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    What a load of crap article.

    The echo should be named as Liverpool's capital BS area. Then fart In their drinking water.

    They have the Kenny Riot Squad gang who have been arrested for possession of weapons before but there hasn't been any reported shootings around there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phredd View Post
    This thread reminds me of a song we sang many eons ago :-

    Little Boxes


    Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.
    Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
    one,
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just
    the same.

    And the people in the houses all went to the university
    Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.
    And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and there's business
    executives
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
    the same.

    And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
    And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
    And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
    Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

    And the boys to into business and marry and raise a family
    In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
    one
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
    the same.


    Who remembers it:- ????

    Words and music by Malvina Reynolds

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    Didn't Pete Seager record that one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by phredd View Post
    This thread reminds me of a song we sang many eons ago :-

    Little Boxes


    Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.
    Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
    one,
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just
    the same.

    And the people in the houses all went to the university
    Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.
    And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and there's business
    executives
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
    the same.

    And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
    And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
    And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
    Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

    And the boys to into business and marry and raise a family
    In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
    one
    And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
    the same.


    Who remembers it:- ????

    Words and music by Malvina Reynolds

    Phredd
    I remember Pete Seeger singing it back in the day.

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    Flipping heck! Chris, you near knocked me over then, replying to Phredd!

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    Burl Ives sang that one,I think.

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    it was written and recorded in 1962 by Malvina Reynolds; but just about everybody has had a go at including the spinners

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