Housing Mistakes

[chasevans]

You've said a lot. Not substantiated much. Been quite wantonly insulting. Not answered anything. You run away when you can't answer. But you're not happy...

Come on. What do you have to say about housing mistakes? (by implication, you could even throw in a little bit about how it might be better).

I never run away. I've said on other threads that the whole Everton slum clearance idea was a mistake. There were many properties that could have been saved and renovated. "The Lost Tribes of Everton" authored by Ken Rogers, gives a perspective on it. Many of the demolished property's bricks were reused, but few by LCC.
I stayed on till 1968. By that time the area was a wasteland, but friends were still returning to the area they'd grew up in with tales of the soulless estates they now lived in. Hence my tiring references to learning from past mistakes.
You may have lived in a house similar to the Radcliffe's, it sounds much like the VW advertisement
~ " similar to a Golf"
Peace,
Chas

[az_gila]

[incidentally - I should also mention that tower blocks have no higher density than two storey houses. The 'parkland' around the towers means the densities are about the same. Since they both use the same amount of land, tower blocks reduce cost of construction per dwelling, not their portion of the land value per dwelling]

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Was that really true fort the Liverpool blocks?

The only one I drove by regularly is now "gentrified" but I believe was an original 60's block.

It is the one near the North end of Seffie Park. A google map view does not seem to show any specific park area arounf it - Sefton Park was there before it...

http://g.co/maps/55jdu

I don't remember much parkland around the tower blocks...

[Ged]

Peel are primarily land speculators. They do little investment. They are not much different to Harry Hyams.

They have the Chinese interested in Liverpool. Meanwhile central government, our own, continue the managed decline route

[Waterways]

They have the Chinese interested in Liverpool. Meanwhile central government, our own, continue the managed decline route

Stop lionizing Peel. They bring no manna from heaven.

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[Peter McGurk]

They have the Chinese interested in Liverpool. Meanwhile central government, our own, continue the managed decline route

Let's be fair. We are skint....