The shower in power etc etc...
Liverpool photos of mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7903166@N03/
Nothing to worry about - they will be futuristic luxury apartments built on stilts and they won't be having gardens, so it can't be in the least bit dangerous! At the time of the Festival Gardens there was a methane gas recovery plant constantly in operation, but that was a long time ago and most of the two million tons of rubbish will have completely broken down harmlessly by now... Won't it?
Isn't the methane plant still running?
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And I've no idea about the safety, not my forte. Can't be good tho, eh?
Liverpool photos of mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7903166@N03/
A lot of the infill was removed to other places during the development for the IGF.
One of the conditions prior to building apartments, was for a survey to be carried out. The site was declared to be 'safe' and City Quay built.
For an update on more recent developers' plans for tower block apartments, residents' campaigns, compromises over provision of new parkland area, 'lost' archives, and general political chicanery, see:
http://www.ourground.net/
and
http://www.riversidedrive.org.uk/index.php?frontpage
The methane plant is still going,so,any future tenants will have to be non-smokers!
I didn't realise that not all the festival site was reclaimed land, some of it rose up over what was the Dingle fields.
Some great phots on the Liverpool Echo site, showing all the work going on... the Japanese garden looks fab so far
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-26560693/
I'm horrified by this though
Mr Swift said: “We found one guy, with his kids, holding an axe and having a go at chopping a pavilion down.
“We stopped a few people in the act as well making a few attempts at burning the pavilion down.”
I took these photos 10 days ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3145027...th/4692564101/
Click Show Info button at top right hand side for details on each photo.
Great selection empeebee thanks. I haven't read through all of this thread but presumbably the intention is to reopen the site to the public again?
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.
As I understand it, the interest of the developers was to create a congenial environment for residents rather than the general public, but concessions have been fought for and won, and the refurbished gardens - which will only be a part of the original site - will be a public park.
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