All hope is lost for city?s derelict row
Dec 6 2008
by Marc Waddington, Liverpool Echo
A NOTORIOUS row of derelict houses will be bulldozed despite years of campaigning to save them.
Many of the homes, in Prescot Road and Prescot Drive, Fairfield, were boarded up in 2000 with the aim of redeveloping them in the future.
They subsequently fell victim to vandals and arsonists, and now only a handful of people still live in the row, which is on a busy commuter route into the city centre.
Campaigners claim they were assured one day they would be brought back to use and would be part of the regeneration of the area around Newsham Park.
Now, after years of sitting empty, about 40 properties will face the wrecker?s ball.
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Cllr Louise Baldock, chairman of the Newsham Park steering group, said the news was received with dismay.
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