EDGE Lane can become the Speke Boulevard of north Liverpool, acting as a catalyst for jobs and investment. more
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EDGE Lane can become the Speke Boulevard of north Liverpool, acting as a catalyst for jobs and investment. more
Edge lane is the south Kev.
I don't know how the hell they can just take peoples home from them though, especially if they own it.
A PLAN to transform east Liverpool at a cost of £350m has been unveiled by city development bosses.
Liverpool Land Development Company lifted the lid on its scheme to regenerate the so-called Edge Lane corridor - a busy route into the city from the M62 motorway.
More than 150 people attended the unveiling at the former Littlewoods building on Edge Lane - set to be converted into apartments, shops and a hotel.
David Waugh, chief executive of Liverpool Land Development Company, commented: "The Edge Lane Project will provide a new 'front door' for Liverpool in time for the city's Capital of Culture Year in 2008.
"As well as transforming Edge Lane itself the scheme will act as a catalyst for the wider regeneration of the whole of eastern Liverpool."
The project involves making the whole length of Edge Lane a dual carriageway to reduce congestion.
Bosses hope it will create and safeguard 1,900 jobs, improve local services and road safety and will see 100 new trees planted.
Council leader Warren Bradley said: "Many thousands of visitors to Liverpool use Edge Lane to enter the city and it is vital we have a gateway which makes a good first impression.
"This scheme will transform one of the major entrance points to Liverpool and improve life tremendously for local residents and businesses."
I wonder if the developers realise that some years ago the Littlewoods Buildings (there are two) were covered in a rubbery solution from top to toe? It was supposed to stop the salts in the brickwork pushing the plaster off the walls inside! With little success, I may add. Guess it'll cost a few bob to put that right!! :rolleyes:Quote:
More than 150 people attended the unveiling at the former Littlewoods building on Edge Lane - set to be converted into apartments, shops and a hotel.
Here's a flythrough of the Edge Lane project.
http://www.edgelane.com/
I thought one of the main reasons for the Edge Lane project was to move traffic faster into the city centre from the motorway.
Looking at the flythrough, big chunks of it are still two lanes with trees jutting out to provide parking spaces. All this will do is cause bottlenecks.
Also, the graphics don't reveal what will happen to the outskirts of the city centre around Edge Hill-Kensington area where traffic really builds up.
What does anyone else think.
What's happening with St Cyprian's? My Mam and Dad got married there.
I heard that it was to be pulled down.
I live the other side of the world and have a couple of questions with regards to your area (which I have never visited).
I had a remote ancestor living at 84 Royston Street in 1913. Will this house be affected by the redevelopment scheme?
Are Kensington and Edge Hill near to each other?
How far is Edge Hill from Toxteth Park?
Best regards from Mexico
Rob
Well m8, Edge hill and Kenny are pretty well next door to each other.
If you goto Google, or Multi map, you can check all this stuff out. Cheers, Bob,
Hi and welcome.
Those areas are all linked. Kensington runs into Edge Hill, and parts of Edge Hill border with the edge of Toxteth ... running up to Parliament st.
I would think that Royston st will be affected by the plans.
Thanks for the real scouse welcome! My dear old grandad would have been happy to see the nice welcome I received; he was born in Lark Lane, Wavertree in 1875.
Cheers bobbymac, lindylou, Kev and Howie.
Rob in the depths of Mexico
Soreofhing,
Your relative from Royston St. wasn't by any chance named Holmes was he?
BTW Lark Lane isn't Wavertree, it is off Aigburth Rd.
Yes, Lark lane is postcode Liverpool 17 - Aigburth.
Some nice pics of Lark Lane HERE. Click on the pics to enlarge.
I remember when we'd ride down Beech St. at that point on Edge lane there was the median, of course, we'd dodge right, (the wrong way, when there wasn't much traffic) Lol.
Lark lane is a great area.
Hi, Rob, no your ancestor's house won't be affected, simply because it isn't there anymore! In the pic below, your ancestor's house would have been where the newer houses are in Royston Street.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...onStreetL7.jpg
This is taken from the other side of Royston Street, so your ancestor's house would have been similar in style to those in the foreground.
That's brilliant Scousemouse. :)
Thank you very much, madam. :rolleyes: :)
Mornin' scousers
No Shytalk, my ancestor was Hubert Charles Parry who married my great aunt Lillias Bather on 4 Feb. 1913 at Christ Church, Linnet Lane.
Like so many others, poor young Hubert went off to war and was killed in action on 4 Feb. 1915--on his second wedding anniversary. His details are to be found in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website and he is buried at the Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, Pas-de-Calais, France. A warehouseman turned rifleman.
At the time of their marriage, Lillias was living at 38 Bickerton Street, Toxteth Park.
Sorry about confusing Wavertree with Edge Hill folks, I'm not from your area and get confused easily. By the way I might as well tell all you good folks straight out that I'm a Londoner. There! I'm outed!
The photos are really super Scousemouse! Thanks a lot.
I'll download them and add them to Hubert and Lillias' file. I've got lots of them and many from the Liverpool/Wirral area.
Pity #84 doesn't exist any more, but at least I get an idea from the bricked up houses in the foreground. Does that signify that this is a rundown tough area nowadays?
And the photos of Lark Lane are pleasantly Victorian with all the red brick houses, slate roofs and pubs. I love the masonry lamp posts--who built them and why?
I had imagined Lark Lane as being a quiet country lane with lots trees and birds singing......not the sort place where you'd find a Rolls Royce dealship.
cheers
soreofhing.
The masonry lamp posts you refer to are the gateposts at the entrance to Sefton Park.
Anyone seen the Promo video of the Edge Lane redevelopment? Theres a link to it off the Ech Website. Will try and find it for you...
Scousemouse
Did you actually go out and take the Royston Street photo just for me?
Many many thanks!
I get back to the UK occasionally, but I'm ****ed if I won't get up to Royston Street (if it hasn't been pulled down beforehand) and have a couple of pints in the Royston Arms. What are the local beers? And what is typical old fashioned pub food in Liverpool?
Soreofhing
Thanks Shytalk.
Does the park still exist?
Yes it does, there are lots of pics on here, it is the biggest of Liverpool parks I think, I missed going there on my last trip to the UK, I spent a lot of time there when I was young. The palmhouse has recently been restored and also some of the statues. If you get to Liverpool it is worth a visit.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...88368&hl=en-GB
Liverpool Land Development's video, slightly re-edited by the Scouse Times folks:unibrow:
To get back to the point of Edge Lane I can't see the need to knock all the houses in the area down.
Some of them could be demolished but most could be renovated.
These developments put cars before people and I fear that the area could end up the same way as Scottie Road when they built the tunnel which just looks like a nondescript motorway.
Thanks, Rob.
If you're going to to have a pint in that pub you'd better take a crowbar and a six pack, 'cos it's the pub in the pic - boarded up. As you say, I think you're ****ed! :rolleyes:
As for Pub Grub, there's not much to choose, most is supplied by the same food preparation companies, if it's not boiled in the bag it's probably microwaved. It's all much of a muchness... :eek: :)
It's so good and so true!
Seriously though, who else apart from me thinks that a scam is going on? There's something really fishy about this and I hope that it gets scrappaed and the plans from the 1970's are put into action.
The M62 was always meant to go into the city and would have followed the railway line thus meaning that Edge Lane was unaffected. The motorway would then have either...
A) Gone into a tunnel and terminated on Islington (ever wondered why there is a gyratory on Low Hill? Well, in that triangle where the brown warehouses are, the M62 would have emerged and freeflowed onto Islington)
B) Run onto Upper Parly Street somehow.
The M62 into Liverpool City Centre was scrapped because the proposed Inner Liverpool Motorway was also scrapped.
All the above is why I find Edge Lane so distressing. There has always mean to be a high standard road flowing into the city, But Edge Lane wasn't the intended route.
For more information, Click here and have a look at the plans!