Originally Posted by
AK1
It's important to remember that this scheme is about preventing edge lane from becoming too congested in the future. Currently at peak times it is horendous trying to drive down there and if nothing is done it will become more and more congested until it is gridlocked. Where not talking 5 or 10 years away, we're talking a matter of months away.
I have continually supported this scheme and still do as it will make the road safer for both pedestrians and drivers and it will vastly improve the lives of local people with new jobs and facilities. It will also improve the image of the area which at the moment is basically derelict.
To say that LCC let the area run down is wrong. The area has been in decline for the best part of 30 yrs and alot of the empty houses where originally put up for sale, but they wouldn't sell. Instead the council proceeded to buy the houses so that the EL Project could begin.
Most of the people who where living there where waiting for something like this to come along so they could get out and start a new life somewhere else.
The vast majority of people are behind the scheme and the suggestion that this demolition is the removal of a community is a load of c##p. There hasn't been a community there for decades and most of the people who are still refusing to move are only doing so to try and get more money for their property.
I hope for the sake of local people and the sake of the city that this part of the project finally gets the go ahead.
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