Some very sensible suggestions and discussion here.
However, although I agrre totally about the calous demeolition of many perfectly good tower blocks, the Shiel road heights, as noble, well proportioned and amost monolithic a design as they were, were structuraly unsound as there was a fault with the original mix of concrete that led to cracks in the pre fab structure. Because it was one pre fab block on top of another that costituted the structure, the problem would have been a ridiculous price to sort out. Unfortunate but true. However, this only stands for the Camus constructed blocks (Shiel rd, Cantril Farm etc)
No excuses for the rest. I mean why demolish Coronation court in Fazackerly, the city's first ever high rise housing block? A landmark on the East Lancs entry to the city lost and replaced by boring brick 'anywhere' flats. By losing all of the flats around the city, a lot of the sense of scale has been lost. Ged was on about Manchester and the blocks I think he means are in Salford who kept theirs and they give an impression of a big city as you approach(Unlike Salford, Manchester followed the same line as Liverpool and demolished most of theirs)
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Cant believe the houses in Duke street on the corner of Slater street were allowed to be demolished and allowed to get in such a state that they had to be. MR STONE AND FRENSON HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR WITH THAT ONE!. Hopefully the council will now learn of their intentions nd not let this happen again (although I wont hold my breath)
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