Rodney Street Area

[MarkA]

Kev got my dentist door on there too!

4th down, column 1 ?

[Max]

Nah It's one of the black doored ones.

[lindylou]

Thanks Kev - fantastic poster.

[StuartF]

Excellent photos Kev. I live just around the corner from Rodney Street. That whole area (hope street etc.) is a really nice part of town, it's just a shame that the Church is still to be sorted out!

[Ged]

A scaffolding wagon being unloaded and clean looking planks being passed up.

[geoffrey]

Saw something on New Folder's blog. A non-existent Rodney Park that's on Yahoo maps. Anyone know if such a thing was ever planned?



http://www.newfolder.co.uk/blog/2007...liverpool.html

[PhilipG]

[QUOTE=geoffrey;58601]Saw something on New Folder's blog. A non-existent Rodney Park that's on Yahoo maps. Anyone know if such a thing was ever planned?

Most of that site is part of the John Moore's University, and the gates are there (with Liver Birds).
Perhaps JMU call it "Rodney Park"?
I've never heard of plans for a public park.
Originally, most of this site was the Convent of Notre Dame, with a large garden, part of which has been built over with the Aldham Robarts Centre.

[geoffrey]

Most of that site is part of the John Moore's University, and the gates are there (with Liver Birds).
Perhaps JMU call it "Rodney Park"?
I've never heard of plans for a public park.
Originally, most of this site was the Convent of Notre Dame, with a large garden, part of which has been built over with the Aldham Robarts Centre.

Right. That would figure.

I remember the convent. My dad was a tutor at Notre Dame College there.

[StuartF]

I noticed this too, I hope it's not a new development, I take my classes there! I can't imagine they'd make it up though, it must be based on something. JMU refer to it just as either the Mount Pleasant Campus, or John Foster (the name of the main JMU building on Mount Pleasant.

The gates guard either end of the back of the Haigh student union, and the road is used for access to the back of that, and the shops on Hardman street on the other side.

[Kev]

THE future of a derelict Liverpool church was secured today after the city won legal ownership of the site.

Plans are now being drawn up to restore the landmark St Andrew’s Church, in Rodney Street.

Two years ago council managers ring-fenced £250,000 to spend on repairs.

But they were unable to carry out any extensive work until ownership was resolved.

Now the grade II* listed ruin, a key building on the ECHO’s Stop the Rot hitlist, will be made safe.

The council hopes it can be opened to visitors during Capital of Culture year.

They are also in discussions with neighbouring Liverpool John Moores about the 184-year-old building’s long-term future as a restored and working heart of the university site.

Liverpool’s environment head Cllr Berni Turner said: “In the short-term I’d like to see it as a living conservation project and as part of next year’s celebrations the site opened to the public so they can see the work going on.”

The church is also on English Heritage’s buildings at risk register.

The heritage watchdog’s Graeme Ives said: “This is positive news and we support the council’s approach to arresting the decay.

“We must now work with them to look at the long-term plans.”

A JMU spokeswoman said plans for the church were at an early stage but could form part of the university’s £110m, five-year development plan.

She said: “We have aspirations to redevelop the building and bring it back into use as a gateway to our Mount Pleasant site. It would be for staff and students. But there would be a public aspect as well.”

Today’s news follows a lengthy legal battle with former owner Dr Amoolya Prasad to gain control of the city centre church.

A compulsory purchase order for the building was made in September 2004.

In the meantime Dr Prasad lost a court battle with architects he commissioned to do a project then refused to pay.

The architects gained control of his assets and the council bought the landmark from them.

But Dr Prasad claimed he had already sold the building to his father, also Dr Prasad.

An Independent Adjudicator to the Land Registry heard arguments in January and yesterday confirmed it had found in the council’s favour, with no right of appeal.

catherinejones@liverpoolecho.co.uk

[Max]

**** giving It to the Uni they have been donated too much sites already and demolished some of Oxford for that gym they got!

They have had new buildings built around there recently too.

[PhilipG]

Good news,
at last.

[snappel]

If giving it to the university means it gets restored then it gets my vote.

Me and a mate used to take our kebabs up there after a night out. Was good to sit up there and eat, watching the really drunk people dragging themselves up the street!

[Max]

Would the Uni open It to the public though?

They tend to turn them Into offices or some wing for students.

[steveb]

Good news, so I wonder if we will find out the truth about the Pyramid