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Cheers Phil.
Thanks Kev.
The floodlighting isn't very effective, and some weren't working.
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NEW plans to demolish the eyesore office block and shops outside Liverpool’s Lime Street station were this week handed to the council.
The new gateway will reveal the masked arched gable end of the listed Victorian station building.
Lime trees and shrubs are also being incorporated into the design.
If Liverpool council planners approve the scheme, work clearing the buildings could start next spring.
And the demolition of 1960s Concourse House and the shops covering the station facade could begin as soon as July.
Construction of the new-look station approach is earmarked for January 2009.
Designers said the new layout will create an impressive new public area, better pedestrian access to and from the station and better links to the city’s cultural quarter.
The land is now owned by government regeneration body English Partnerships.
Area director Eliot Lewis-Ward said: “This scheme will transform the landscape of this part of the city by opening up the splendid Victorian frontage of the station and providing a broad area of attractive public realm to complement the St George’s plateau.
“It is a complex project but when completed it will provide the city with a gateway of which it can be truly proud.” He said direct access to the station will be significantly improved with gentle slopes.
Regeneration agency Liverpool Vision is working with English Partnerships on the scheme.
Vision chief executive Jim Gill said: “The proposed scheme will create an attractive approach to one of the city’s most important visitor gateways.”
Delays caused by problems with compulsory purchase orders on the shops led to the new proposals.
Liverpool Echo
Hi Kev, Merry Christmas to you and all on YO.
Latest plan for Lime Street Station :002:............
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We can say goodbye soon to this brute...........
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Many thanks for that and a merry Christmas to you too :PDT11
Culture to me is about the people of the city, their lives and ways they live, also the surrounds and buildings they live in, obviously the tired city needs a tidy up and spruce up , but new steel , aluminium and glassbuildings imported from the continent constructed by labour from outside the region have nothing to do with culture in my opinion, the whole scheme from it's inception gives me the impression it is just a big free for all money grab by uncultured people.
hmm.. you could be right there. :neutral:
To be honest, the sooner they demolish the better, even if construction doesn't start till 2009. Just clearing the area will be a vast improvement. Regarding the poor lighting on the advertising boards, I think that the lights just need to be angled differently, they seem to be pointing towards the ground rather than the actual building.
19th December 2007.
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the american bar near lime street,is miss liberty holding up a upside down faded bottle of bud lite in her torch?:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
excellent pic AD.
Here's another view - 27th December 2007. Stuck out like a sore thumb.
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I feel the need to get someone in charge of the Concourse Tower area, grab them by the collar and shout "get on with it" .... :unibrow:
Lime St. subway closes for good in a few days. Some liverbirds are painted on the walls of this.
Can't wait for a bloody good gust of wind :PDT11Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
ONE of Liverpool’s most familiar hair salons is on the move as a new deal to redevelop one of the gateways into the city awaits approval. Read
Yeah I feel the same way.Someones making a good few quid outta this.Not the people of Liverpool but some already rich fat cat.Quote:
Originally Posted by shoney
Some of your precious Liverpool people are to blame for the Lime Street station debacle.
The owners of the scruffy shops on the concourse did all they could to hold the city to ransom. This coupled with a disgracefully inept and unimaginative city council, who managed to kybosh a privately funded skyscraper in favour of their own which
Much of Liverpool's culture and history has come from other parts of the world, we have to stop being so parochial.
Have you been in the 2 remaining shops and asked them if they're Scousers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
I suspect that they're not.
Leaving that aside, they were only protecting their own interests, selfishly, or not.
Well said Philip on both counts.
I just love this forum.
How is Harry wrong for making an assumption about Liverpool shop owners being Scousers but then Philip gets applauded for guessing that they are not?
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I love this forum, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoddersUK
It's called free speech, which alllows you to choose whatever smilies you like. :disgust:
Read the part of Harry's quote that I highlighted.
Or did you miss that? :PDT10
I chose those smilies because they looked the closest i could find to confusion. The name they are tagged with had nothing to do with it.
And yes i did read the highlighted part.
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what does the photographers think of these taken by me last Saturday on my camera phone. I thought they looked ok but a bit amateurish.
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Originally Posted by RoddersUK
Possibly because it's quite possible that he made the wrong assumption.
But that aside, yes, possibly (that word again) the shop owners were just looking for a better pay day which possibly (oh no) might have been justified because I don't know how much they were offered, only that the others all left ages ago ;)
That was my point exactly.
You don't know and he doesn't know. Your guess should be as good as his. But seniority here takes precedent again.
I'm not part of YoLiverpool's inner circle so i'll just take shut up and watch from the side lines.
OMG!Quote:
Originally Posted by RoddersUK
Everybody now.
"PLEASE DON'T LEAVE!"
Rodders, there is no Inner Circle here.
Some people agree with some posts, and some don't.
I don't care what anyone else thinks about my opinion - but for what it is worth I thought it stubborn and selfish that those scruffy shops have held up progress. :PDT_Xtremez_12: The front of that station should be transformed into a smart entrance for Lime st station. It should have been done long ago.
I never said they weren't selfish, but that's a human trait.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
I always look at that scruffy block every time I'm on the bus going down to Roe st. I looked at it this morning.
It is disgraceful that those shops are STILL there.
I'm sure you will get over it Philip.Quote:
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Seem fine to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by chippie
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Hello Rodders, please read Harry's assumption again.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoddersUK
''Some of your precious Liverpool people are to blame for the Lime Street station debacle.
The owners of the scruffy shops on the concourse did all they could to hold the city to ransom.''
That's a huge assumption. A dig at scousers when it's not known they are. 'Hold the city to ransom' when it's not known they did, that could be libelous in fact.
There is no 'senior' precedent here or inner circle, my opinion is no better than yours but knowing the area concerned I was reckoning on one assumption being nearer the mark than the other that's all.
I had to delete my last post as I got mixed up there with Harry & Rodders :D
I'm coming down with a cold I think, and my head is muzzy !! That's my excuse for making mistakes :unibrow:
yes Ged, it could well be a dig at Scousers. :nod:
If I was in charge tho' - I'd have swept those shops away long ago !! :ninja:
it's terrible that progress is halted.
I don't want yet another thread on this usually fine web site getting hijacked by another petty squabble.
I maybe over reacted to a small issue but it seems to me to happen all to often. I only brought it up because i felt one member's assumption was being trashed by 2 others assumptions with nobody having any evidence. I realize that thats the whole point of this forum and free speech but i guess it just riled me.
That's ok Rodders, keep posting, it's all just opinions and we're all opnionated. Harry also said 'Some of your precious Liverpool people' indicating he's not scouse himself and it's like we've only ourselves to blame. I can't do much about 2 shop owners wanting a fair deal anyway can I - or you (if that's what the delay was about and not just greed)
Yes, in the post I'd deleted I was going to say how ''we fight like hell on
here sometimes, :unibrow: ha,ha, and even members who normally never
have a cross word, will agree to disagree form time to time. :)
Things get all out of proportion sometimes.
Another view of the row from outside the entrance to the Holiday Inn.
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Those shops do look awful don't they. Talk about a blot on the landscape :(
I'm not a Scouser either but until recently i lived and worked in liverpool for 14 years (still work there for now)
I agree that the site is an eyesore. The council have been blocking a rival tower development on the car park site between the spar and old las vegas casino because they have a vested interest in this development and want to get in there first.