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I’m not above getting sentimental over past glories. We can all see value in desirable buildings to keep and we can envisage a water-based expansion in Liverpool but without fundamental reason to be, none of it will happen.
So ‘wouldn’t it be nice’ will not do. There must be sound economic drivers to make it work or else it will stay as it. Dark tanks and desolation, bound in aspic, stuck in the 1950s (or rather the 1970s). An excuse for failure.
Perhaps this allows you to prefer the exploitation of the working man for personal profit of the very few that the Duke’s Dock Warehouses represent (the clue is in the name) rather than the economic and social benefits of the Echo Arena, ugly as it might or might not be.
Only you can say. But there was no other use for them as economically beneficial anywhere on the horizon, or ever.
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It is a great shame that many of the more enterprising have left the city and will not be coming back. Or at least not while it continues to look back. The city's population is half what it was in 1938. Half. And still flat-lining. The birth rate goes on but people are still leaving.
But one thing to thank Peel for is, they’re still here. They’re still here, they’re still looking forward and they’re still investing. Peel have spent millions and not a brick laid. No windfall profits to be had there. Only hard work, money, risk and enterprise.
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No, I’m not involved with Peel. Much that it matters. Peel know their own mind (as do I). They’ve no need of my support (or would be bothered by my criticism).
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Originally Posted by
Ged
Liverpool waters V WHS - F*** WHS off then as Dresden did.
There are no rules about a rapid transport provision. If the council want to do this then that's up to them.
Indeed, it is not Peel's responsibility to provide external infrastructure but having said that they envisage a new overhead with potential for connections to the airport. I understand there are four stations on the Wirral Waters Scheme and the city have a new station in mind on its own merits at Vauxhall on the Northern Line (Merseyrail).
Because of the geography of the city and the way the population is spread, there will be significant increased demand for cross-river traffic, which (if all was built to its greatest potential) could only be met by a new rail tunnel. A long time in the future and certainly not Peel's to fund.
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