Edge Lane Development

It seems pretty obvious from the reports today that although cabe approve of what the scheme is trying to do, they are not happy with the quality of the new housing and the way they will be laid out. It would be very easy for LLDC to add some ammendments to the application which would see major changes to the quality of materials used and the lay out of the housing.
These comments from cabe aren't actually that damaging. They approve of the schemes intentions and recognise the need for new, modern housing and don't object to the demolition of the houses.

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... and don't object to the demolition of the houses.

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the DP report says

The letter went on to lament the “loss to the built environment” that would occur if the houses are demolished.

Govt advisor refuses to support Edge Lane scheme
Mar 14 2008
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THE Government’s leading design advisors have condemned plans to transform a key gateway into Liverpool.

CABE - The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, has rubbished the scheme to redevelop Edge Lane in a letter to Liverpool City Council planners.

CABE refused to support the proposals because they would not meet key objectives. CABE believes the project, part of a £350m masterplan, will not transform the housing stock and renew the property market as intended.

Nor, it claims, will it improve the entrance “gateway” into the city, a key objective of the multi-million pound scheme. It says developers should think again and urged councillors to throw out the planning application.

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Just heard a advert on Radio City...

"With local traders"

"Edge Lane looks even better than it did before"

I am still gobsmaked.

Does anyone have any links to images or plans for the north view/west derby street/hall lane by pass section. Or any info on what is meant to be happening development/landscape wise?
Searched the thread and edge lane development site but cant find anything of any detail.
thanks in advance.

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Does anyone have any links to images or plans for the north view/west derby street/hall lane by pass section. Or any info on what is meant to be happening development/landscape wise?
Searched the thread and edge lane development site but cant find anything of any detail.
thanks in advance.

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Thanks for taking the time to do that mate, really appreciate it. Thinking more actually on North view side - land facing Paddy comp. Think its a car alarm place and the land at the side facing onto the green. Are they going to take any of the green away to widen the road to make it 2 ways?

My 'alternative' website for BEVEL is still at this address if you ain't had a nose yet - http://www.edge-lane.com/

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How are they going to get past the biggest hurdle on Edge Lane which is the Church on the corner of Edge Lane/Durning Road?

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That's been closed for months with structural problems. Perhaps they're waiting until it becomes so unsafe that it has to be demolished... (j/k)

Dave.

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Thanks for taking the time to do that mate, really appreciate it. Thinking more actually on North view side - land facing Paddy comp. Think its a car alarm place and the land at the side facing onto the green. Are they going to take any of the green away to widen the road to make it 2 ways?

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On the original plans,yes,a small part of the southern edge was to go. Whether that's changed under the current plans,I don't know.

Dave.

I kept searching and found all this about Edge Lane where she used to live time ago.

Is it anyone able to help me to contact her?

I posted a similar question in other part of this site but no reply yet.

Any PM would be replied and, sure, appreciated. Her address was 221, Edge Lane.

Gracias.

Agustín Ferrari

The new look Edge Lane (Bevel) is now up and running and can be found at:

BEVEL

My thanks go to Scouse Times for the fantastic video!!!!

Also - just created a facebook group 'Save Edge Lane's Victorian Buildings' !

Cannot believe that a CPO is now in order to demolish all of the houses on Edge Lane.

What a joke. We have 6 weeks to consider an appeal. There are three points regarding this - a, the houses that will be CPO'd are being purchased for a pittance, and then when the new building is put up, they are selling ONE flat for the same money as purchased (currently up to 4 flats on the same plot). You don't have to realise that someone is getting lots of money for this.

B - No matter if the area is demolished, the church will not be touched and that is the biggest problem for the road. So all new housing really won't make the junction any better.

C - The church report (look for the church report on the above website) is nearly falling down and money has been put by to try and save this - but the council don't want to know.

Can you imagine coming down Edge Lane next year, no St John's spire and no Victorian houses - why not just take out St George's Hall and be done with our heritage?

Anyone know if the TA barracks is going to be demolished.:034:

THE LONG awaited regeneration and widening of Liverpool?s Edge Lane has been given the go ahead, after the government confirmed a compulsory purchase order to force homeowners to sell up. Read

Are the house in fairfield going the same way? the ones that back onto Newsham park, opposite the Police club.

Its a shame to see them in this state.

What will replace all this and edge lane?? we already have lego land ruining the fantastic three graces, now it looks like Toy town will be built here:PDT_Xtremez_12:

Our heritage is being ripped apart in front of our eyes, soon we wont recognise anything. And dont get me started on the disrepect shown to Noel Chavasse, they should put his name back and another statue should take pride of place amongst the shopping horror show.

I think this plan is disgraceful. The houses a beautiful - and have been left to ruin. Then there's a row of 1930s houses - with just one resident left living there. I come down Edge Lane every night from work and I dispair of the plans for these houses.

I wish the City Council had learned from knocking down so many of our buildings in the past - but they haven't.

We do not need any more roads IMO. Yes Edge Lane is busy at Peak time and that part by the Barracks is quite poor - but compared to some roads in Liverpool it's not too bad.

I say renovate the houses - do not destroy these fine buildings.

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Are the house in fairfield going the same way? the ones that back onto Newsham park, opposite the Police club.

Its a shame to see them in this state.

What will replace all this and edge lane?? we already have lego land ruining the fantastic three graces, now it looks like Toy town will be built here:PDT_Xtremez_12:

Our heritage is being ripped apart in front of our eyes, soon we wont recognise anything. And dont get me started on the disrepect shown to Noel Chavasse, they should put his name back and another statue should take pride of place amongst the shopping horror show.

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It's just a bloody crime. The church on the corner cannot be demolished so we are still going to have to have the church 'disrupting' the traffic flow - new buildings or not.

I really hope that when these fine victorian buildings are demolished, no one wants to buy one of those new sheds, with just enough room to swing a cat when they could have moved in to a fine 6/7 bedroom victorian house.

Still, as long as certain people are getting their back pocket's lined with cash....

Edge Lane residents: We?ll fight on for our homes
Oct 1 2008
by Marc Waddington, Liverpool Echo

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CAMPAIGNERS today pledged to take their battle to save Edge Lane?s Victorian houses to court.

They refused to give up their four-year fight against plans to bulldoze boarded-up homes and widen the busy road, despite being dealt a massive blow by the government yesterday.

Ministers approved a compulsory purchase order, which will let Liverpool council buy out the last few householders living in the demolition zone, following a public inquiry last year.

But campaigners hope they can still overturn the CPO at the high court after successfully managing the same feat in 2006.

They now have six weeks to lodge a challenge to the new order.

Elizabeth Pascoe, of Adderley Street, Kensington, said a fresh challenge would be mounted.

She said: ?I thought we had a better-than-even chance with all the experts who came forward.

?But in a way, it may be just as well it goes to the high court, because we will get a definitive decision there.

?As far as we are concerned, this scheme has destroyed our community.

?I am obliged to fight, because otherwise all this time and effort will have been pointless.?

But the government?s decision was today welcomed by political leaders, who want to remove the traffic bottleneck at Edge Lane?s west end and replace the boarded-up houses.

The ?350m project will see 550 new homes built, around 2,000 jobs created and major works to improve the three-mile route from the M62 into the city centre.

Eliot Ward-Smith, Merseyside area director for project leader English Partnerships, said: ?We are pleased a decision has been made, helping us to respond to the community?s wishes for a comprehensive approach to transform the area.?

Timeline

January 2005 - CPO process started by English Partnerships.

October 2005 - First public inquiry starts.

December 2005 - Inquiry inspector recommends CPO.

February 2006 - Government confirms CPO.

March 2006 - Challenge lodged at high court by Elizabeth Pascoe.

November 2006 - CPO quashed. English Partnerships vow to pursue second CPO.

July 2007 - Second CPO made by English Partnerships.

January 2008 - Second public inquiry starts.

September 2008 - Secretary of State confirms second CPO.

Source: Liverpool Echo

anyone ever explained where the 200 jobs are going to be and how the bottle enck is going to be easedby knocking down Royston and all the other streets, oh hang on jsut seen a flying pig going by, it all makes sense now. oink oink, one good thing those crap murals be go.....

Any idea whether or not an appeal was formally lodged with teh Court of Appeal. The deadline was today but despite the initial battle cry from campaigners when the CPO was confirmed, I haven't heard anything.

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Any idea whether or not an appeal was formally lodged with teh Court of Appeal. The deadline was today but despite the initial battle cry from campaigners when the CPO was confirmed, I haven't heard anything.

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It has. The powers that be won't be able to touch Edge Lane till at least Easter 2009 with all the paperwork of the hearing :PDT11

Bill for Edge Lane project rockets
Dec 2 2008
by David Bartlett, Liverpool Daily Post

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THE cost of extending Liverpool?s Edge Lane dual carriageway has risen by ?9.5m, to ?25.6m, after regeneration officials ?underestimated? the price of property and demolition.

It comes as the Daily Post can reveal that the long- awaited Edge Lane West scheme faces yet more delays after campaigners launched a new legal challenge to a compulsory purchase order (CPO).

Activist Elizabeth Pascoe, who opposed the scheme to demolish Victorian homes to widen Edge Lane West, said she expected her legal challenge to be heard around Easter, 2009.

Last night, Labour opposition leader Cllr Joe Anderson said: ?There needs to be some serious questions asked about the way this scheme has been handled.? Alongside the widening of Edge Lane West to improve traffic flow from the city centre to the M62, it is envisaged that 280 new houses, a new medical centre and shops will also be built.

Council officials have admitted in a transport capital programme document that ?acquisitions and associated demolition costs were originally underestimated?, leading to a 60% rise in costs to widening the road.

Of the ?25.6m that will be spent on the scheme, the Department for Transport (DfT) is to pay ?22.1m, with ?2.48m due to come from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and the city council spending another ?1m.

The ERDF is to virtually double its contribution, with the DfT being asked to contribute an additional ?6.3m. The same document reveals the funding is ?aspirational at present and will be confirmed once successful bids for external funding have been made.

?Expenditure will not be committed against external funding until offer letters have been received.?

Around 370 homes on Edge Lane and surrounding streets will need to be demolished.

Almost 90% of the properties are either already in public ownership or are in the process of acquisition.

In September, the council, English Partnerships (now called the Homes and Communities Agency) and the Government confirmed a second CPO on almost 70 homes along Edge Lane and surrounding streets.

The first was quashed in the High Court in November, 2006, on a technicality.

Cllr Anderson said: ?This particular project seems to go from one particular disaster to another. An increase of 60% is appalling, and we need to have a serious look at where we go with this.?

Last night, Mrs Pascoe, who lives in Edge Lane, said: ?If we finally achieve what we have been fighting for it will not be a victory. The whole thing stinks, besides the misery it has caused people it has damaged Liverpool?s reputation and trust in government.?

A spokesman for the city council said: ?The increase in costs are as a result of rising property and land prices in the city over the last few years, and delays caused by the legal challenges to the CPO.?

Source: Liverpool Daily Post

Just like those that have opposed the EFC move to Kirkby, these Edge Lane legal challenges have proved that people power can work over the fat cats and cause major disruption in their plans and cause costs to escalate to what should now make it an unviable option. Personally, i'm fed up with councils putting road improvements ahead of peoples wellbeing and welcome anything like this. It's just a pity that we tenement residents were all council cannon fodder many years ago when moved around like pawns, one reason that the inner city population fell more than anywhere else in the country and something they are now crying over trying to rectify.

Judge?s broadside at Liverpool Council over Edge Lane
Dec 27 2008
by David Bartlett, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL Council did ?as little as possible? to comply with the law when introducing new traffic arrangements on its key Edge Lane corridor, a High Court judge has ruled.

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Probe into Liverpool's Edge Lane plan as High Court hearing starts
Mar 23 2009
by David Bartlett, Liverpool Daily Post

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has been asked to investigate a scheme to regenerate Liverpool?s Edge Lane corridor, the Daily Post can reveal.

Campaigner Elizabeth Pascoe claims the way housing contracts were handled constitutes unfair state aid.

The allegation is denied by city authorities.

The North West Development Agency is currently drawing up a response on behalf of itself, the council and regeneration body Liverpool Vision.

The news comes on the day Ms Pascoe?s latest legal challenge to the scheme, which would see Edge Lane widened, is due to be heard in the High Court.

During the two-day hearing she will challenge a compulsory purchase order forcing home-owners to sell up.

It is the latest bout in a long-running saga over the ?70m plus project.

Last night Cllr Louise Baldock, who represents Kensington and Fairfield, said the situation around Edge Lane was desperate due to the huge number of empty homes.

Liverpool Vision is hoping for a successful outcome to both cases so work can start early next year.

The EC investigation centres on Bellway Homes being given ?preferred developer? status to build new homes as part of the Edge Lane Scheme.

In 2001 when the Housing Market Renewal Initiative (HMRI) was launched the city was divided into four ?Zones of Opportunity?: Kensington, Anfield, Picton/Wavertree and Speke Garston. Bellway won the bid for the Picton/Wavertree area.

The Daily Post understands an open procurement procedure was followed to find a preferred developer for each zone.

Using preferred developers was a mechanism to make a company develop the less desirable, and less profitable, areas in each zone as well as more lucrative parts.

Ms Pascoe said last night: ?I made the state aid complaint because the city council has given them preferential treatment so that no one else gets a look in. It seems not quite right to me.?

An EC ruling against the city authorities could have ramifications not only for the Edge Lane scheme but also for HMRI.

Last night director of legal and estates at the NWDA Steven Zdolyny said: ?The Agency is aware of the state aid challenge and we are working with partners to co-ordinate a response to the EC.?

The response is due to be submitted in two weeks time.

Some 370 homes on Edge Lane and surrounding streets must be demolished for the scheme to proceed.

Almost 90% of the properties are either already in public ownership or are in the process of acquisition.

Cllr Baldock said: ?There are currently streets and streets of empty houses. There is no point in anyone continuing to try to keep the community together when it has been scattered.?

In September the council, English Partnerships (now the Homes and Communities Agency) and the Government confirmed a second CPO on almost 70 homes along Edge Lane and surrounding streets.

The first was quashed in the High Court in November, 2006, on a technicality.

Head of gateways at Liverpool Vision Rob Monaghan said: ?The Edge Lane West Project has the continued support of the vast majority of the community, which was emphasised by the planning inspectors recommendation following a public inquiry into the scheme.

?It was further endorsed by the Secretary of State in confirming the Compulsory Purchase Order.

?The scheme partners are hoping for a successful outcome to the high court hearing on 23/24th March to enable development to begin early 2010.?

Source: Liverpool Daily Post

Elizabeth Pascoe loses latest bid to halt Liverpool Edge Lane regeneration scheme
Mar 25 2009
by David Bartlett, Liverpool Echo

CAMPAIGNING gran Elizabeth Pascoe failed in her latest bid to halt a scheme to regenerate Liverpool?s Edge Lane corridor.

Yesterday Justice Duncan Ouseley at the High Court in London refused to quash a compulsory purchase order covering 370 properties.

She was then immediately refused leave to appeal but has 21 days to lodge a challenge with the Court of Appeal.

Today Liverpool Council leader Cllr Warren Bradley said: ?Hopefully there will be no further challenges and we can make real progress on a regeneration scheme which will immensely improve the quality of life of local people.?

The council is working with its regeneration agency Liverpool Vision and the Homes and Communities Agency on the scheme.

They hope to start work in early 2010 on the ?70m project that will see the key arterial route widened.

Today Ms Pascoe said: ?I do not intend to appeal for me personally, but if it?s in the wider public interest I suppose I ought to.?

This was her second legal challenge.

The first CPO issued to allow work to go ahead was quashed in the High Court in November 2006, on a technicality.

She fought the latest challenge on two grounds, that reservations expressed by the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment (CABE) after a public inquiry had not been properly considered.

And the second related to the inquiry inspector?s judgement that alternative plans put forward by objectors were not deliverable.

Mr Justice Ouseley said: ?There was no error of law, no inadequacy of reasons and certainly no substantial prejudice was caused.?

Source: Liverpool Echo

Bit of a mystery, is Mrs Pascoe - where is all the money coming from to fund her appeals? Where is the advice coming from? I mean, what regular resident would think to appeal to the EC claiming 'unfair state aid' for a housing project, which is Mrs Pascoe's latest wheeze? The vast majority of Edge Hill residents want this scheme and the wider regeneration scheme to go ahead.

How can one person can wield such power and potentially affect the lives of so many other residents, including my parents, who are desperate for an improvement in their living conditions and want the new regeneration plans to go ahead. Mrs Pascoe is in the minority in her objections. We live in a democracy and Mrs Pascoe should accept this.

I know for a fact that my parents and their neighbours would be devastated if the regeneration is delayed further. Local councilor Louise Baldock, who represents Kensington and Fairfield, has also said the situation around Edge Lane was 'desperate' due to the huge number of empty homes.

My parents are now in their mid 60s and surrounded by half derelict and bricked up buildings. Unlike Ms Pascoe, they and their neighbours have lived in Edge Hill all of their lives so at least have have deep roots in the area. They have witnessed the decline for the past 30 years and see that the plans now are the only way forward. They are entitled to their views as much as Mrs Pascoe but unfortunately don't have the time or the money or the expert backing to push their campaign for a new Edge Hill, including Edge Lane.

I feel that while Mrs Pascoe seems to have the media on her side, who misguidedly see her as a local hero, no one apart from local councillors, seems to be sticking up for my parents or the other residents who fully support regeneration and always have done. They are upset that she is pursuing this crusade to the bitter end when she knows that she is in a minority - of one.

Do local meetings not take place in this area where the plight of these people can be put to her then. It is sad that the council have left the area to become run down as when they get an idea in their head such as the M62 extension into town which is what was proposed 30 years ago, then maintenance, refurbs etc just does not happen and they get their way in the end. I know this from the Hunter Street/Vauxhall ring road plans.

Gary_arry, Similar situation happened with our school - read my rant -

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it amazes me how a very small minority can throw a spanner in the works - I believe it takes only one person to object and it can bring plans to a halt.

Ged, it is sad very that a once thriving and vibrant area has declined so much - but i think the reasons are complex: falling population, economic decline of the docks, railways manufacturing and some social problems just accelerated the decline. It reached the point where no-one wanted to move into the area and more people left, creating a vicious cycle of abandonment and decline. It reached a point where about nine years ago the Governement did intervene with the Regeneration plans - which are still more or less on the drawing board.
Mrs Pascoe's appeals have held things up for a good few years now, so we have even more dereliction and abandonment leaving residents in this desperate situtation. Mrs Pascoe thinks things can be saved by refurbing homes but there are just too many empty houses in a blighted neighbourhood that no-one would want to live in.
Residents have been consulted and infact have been looking at plans. They are excited that they could have a new community based on something like the Eldonian Village model, which seems so have worked.
The Regeneration is not just about a road going through a community. The road is there - it will be widened. But this will tie in with the redevelopment of the surrounding streets either side of Edge Lane. If the plans are to be believed then it all will be impressive. And a millon times better than the dereliction now which has gone past the point of no return a point which was reached long before Mrs Pascoe's campaign.

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Do local meetings not take place in this area where the plight of these people can be put to her then. It is sad that the council have left the area to become run down as when they get an idea in their head such as the M62 extension into town which is what was proposed 30 years ago, then maintenance, refurbs etc just does not happen and they get their way in the end. I know this from the Hunter Street/Vauxhall ring road plans.

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Ged, I know it's off topic, but we had lots of meetings and the objecters have been so stubborn digging their heels in - our kids education has been put on hold at a crucial time in their school lives when they are in senior years and education facilities crucial.
People are SO selfish. I bet the people who object have no kids, or have kids grown up and left home.

ps, as Gary_arry said - about people having roots in the area - - the majority of our schoolkids are of families born & bred in the district, and they deserve the best education in their own area - - one of the main protesters had moved in from another district :PDT_Xtremez_12:

lindylou, you are so right. These people are having a direct influence on people's lives - to mess with children's education is shocking. New isn't always bad. I really hope your son gets his new school.

Thanks for your reply.
At last things have got moving :handclap: and we hope to move into the school Sept. :PDT_Piratz_26:

Good luck for your parents gary. Hopefully something will now start moving as, like you say, the decline is now so far advanced that only forward progress will now regenerate the area. It's a pity the frontage of Edge Lane with those fine houses couldn't have been saved though long ago with a model village lying behind. We've seen so many thoroughfares like Scotland Road, Byrom Street, Stanley Road etc go to wrack and ruin and these main arterial routes into the city centre are not good first impressions to visitors either but could have been.

thanks ged. i do agree about the fine old houses on edge lane - hopefully some can be saved and integrated into the plan. that would be a good compromise.

Though I dont live in the area,I was aware that this has been rumbling on for years! I can respect Mrs Pascoe and her supporters opinions, to a point, but there's no escaping the fact that Edge lane is a main thoroughfare into the city, and should be treated as such! The importance to the city as a whole, should take priority over local protest,though they should be considered, after the failed Liverpool ring road, that just left areas bulldozed,and empty,for years.

I agree steve that Mrs Pascoe does have the right to protest but if she appeals again after the High Court ruling this week then this will be the third one (I think). Then there is the other new appeal to the European Commission concerning 'unfair state aid' which could potentially scupper house rebuillding plans not just for Edge Lane, but for Edge Hill, Fairfield, Wavertree and who knows where else. Mrs Pascoe has said that she is doing this for the wider community but the wider community who are directly affected just don't support her. I would hope that lessons have been learnt from the mess of some post war redevelopment. People have seen the plans for Edge Hill and like them. Mrs Pascoe might be pleasantly surprised if she were to see them come to fruition.

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Bit of a mystery, is Mrs Pascoe - where is all the money coming from to fund her appeals? Where is the advice coming from? I mean, what regular resident would think to appeal to the EC claiming 'unfair state aid' for a housing project, which is Mrs Pascoe's latest wheeze? The vast majority of Edge Hill residents want this scheme and the wider regeneration scheme to go ahead.

How can one person can wield such power and potentially affect the lives of so many other residents, including my parents, who are desperate for an improvement in their living conditions and want the new regeneration plans to go ahead. Mrs Pascoe is in the minority in her objections. We live in a democracy and Mrs Pascoe should accept this.

I know for a fact that my parents and their neighbours would be devastated if the regeneration is delayed further. Local councilor Louise Baldock, who represents Kensington and Fairfield, has also said the situation around Edge Lane was 'desperate' due to the huge number of empty homes.

My parents are now in their mid 60s and surrounded by half derelict and bricked up buildings. Unlike Ms Pascoe, they and their neighbours have lived in Edge Hill all of their lives so at least have have deep roots in the area. They have witnessed the decline for the past 30 years and see that the plans now are the only way forward. They are entitled to their views as much as Mrs Pascoe but unfortunately don't have the time or the money or the expert backing to push their campaign for a new Edge Hill, including Edge Lane.

I feel that while Mrs Pascoe seems to have the media on her side, who misguidedly see her as a local hero, no one apart from local councillors, seems to be sticking up for my parents or the other residents who fully support regeneration and always have done. They are upset that she is pursuing this crusade to the bitter end when she knows that she is in a minority - of one.

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As someone who is directly involved in the BEVEL affair, I thought I would speak out. I was asked a good while ago if I could construct something to highlight the Edge Lane plan and after seeing what heritage we could lose, I contacted Elizabeth and offered her a free website which you can find at http://www.edge-lane.com/

Elizabeth has ploughed in lots of her personal money in to this over the years - she does not get a handout, nor does she get any funding either. Everything she does comes out of her own pocket, or the pockets of those around to help her. She rents out rooms to students to help pay for her costs and has done for every year for the last few years.

In my personal opinion, the side roads around Edge Lane are not pretty at all, are plighted by narrow streets and therefore should be pulled down. But I got involved in this project (at my expense) to help try and save the victorian houses that run alongside Edge Lane. To spend millions on new pavements and then stick some prefabs up at the end of the road, really would be an insult.

Having never met Elizabeth before this, she came across as a very honest person, drives an old car and has worked silly hours (as the rest of the team has) on this project. This isn't about one person creating problems, it is one person trying to give a sensible and alternative plan to Edge Lane with carefully thought out and planned traffic routes as shown on my website.

At her time of life, she does not need to be forced out of her house, to be paid a pittance and forced to 'up shop' and move in to a flat somewhere. Put simply, why would anyone want to take the ?30,000 on offer for a house so they can knock it down and construct a prefab for ?125,000 on the same plot - probably much smaller than the houses there at the moment.

She is quite within her right to campaign to have this stopped, and I feel very sorry that this last attempt failed. Her advice is from people like Save Britain's Heritage, local solicitors and campaigners who work for the government in their day job, then give up considerable time to help on this project.

But as the local rag have never once published her website, the people of liverpool are still in the dark about her plans for the whole area - view it and you may see why she has worked so hard to do this.

The bottom line is, is that no matter what is cleared around Edge Lane, there is one building that they can't move - the church on the corner, and thus, this junction will be no better off for traffic with burnt out properties than it will with new prefabs.

cyon, the reason i have posted here is to stick up for my parents and their neighbours who have been looking out on tinned up houses for years and want the redevelopment to move on. it sounds a little high handed to say that mrs pascoe's plans are better and that local people would agree to live in 'prefabs' (by this is think you mean substandard housing that won't last). they want the best for the area but disagree with bevel in the best way to go about this.
mrs pascoe does have the right to protest and has done this very effectively but i think to the detriment of others. that's my point.
my parents are in their mid 60s and retired and my aunty who lives there is nearly 80, most residents left in edge hill are in the same age bracked 60, 70s and 80s. They have stuck it out - they certainly deserve better than to be living in the wasteland that exists now and which is there for anyone to see.