Originally Posted by
Waterways
I can think of realigning quays and the likes as being acceptable, but there is no reason for mass filling, as per Bidston, Toxteth, Harrigton, Herculaneum, Trafalgar, etc. There is enough land around to put arenas on.
Once the docks are gone they never come back.
Of course our first choice should be to keep the docks - always.
We like water. We like to live by water. We like the reflections, the movement, the kid in us - the poetry of it. And in Liverpool's case, we appreciate the greatness by association - we live(d) in this great city that built this great thing.
But none of those things were in the minds of those that built them. Profit and expediency more like.
It is really, really sad when someone can only imagine two dull brick towers or a waste treatment plant in them but at least in the latter there's been a huge benefit to marine life in the river.
It's a sign of the differing times that the 'great and glorious' Liver Buildings rose out of a filled-in dock then but we have a waste plant now.
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Best case, I would always want to keep the docks but it's not necessarily the filling of the docks that's a problem, it's what you put in them that matters.
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Originally Posted by
gregs dad
Ged all Waterloo and the residential part of the Queens are still private, You cannot pass ...
The Mersey Waterfront Regional Park docs are archived here:
http://merseybasin.org.uk/archive/items/MBC143.html
The footlink was or is intended to provide public access around the Mersey from New Brighton to Southport via Runcorn. The problem in this part of the world always was, how do you get past the working section of docklands at Seaforth?
I think it was a nice idea but practically speaking you would need an Act of Parliament to create a public right of way.
Having said that, being able to access all parts is bit of a planning mantra and rightly so. There's still a place for privacy (like, my front garden or even private gardens in a London square) but essentially 'gated' communities are difficult to justify.
Problem is, they're very attractive to investors who might otherwise not want to live or put money into a 'dodgy' area. It would be interesting to know how that went in London's Docklands...
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