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    TESCO has submitted a planning application to Liverpool city council for a Tesco Extra ?Regeneration Partnership? store in Park Road, Toxteth. Read

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    Would definitely improve the look of Park Rd and create jobs etc, but do we need ANOTHER flippin' Tesco??????

    Are they not at the point of saturation?

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    Tesco is everywhere but this should have been built by now

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    An updated planning application was submitted at the end of January 2009. I expect we'll hear something in a couple of weeks.

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    Plans were passed a few days ago. Liverpools biggest supermarket, it says here:
    http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-23004905/

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    This is just plain bad planning. The dumb Liverpool planners at it again.

    Park Rd was a long road full of shops and pubs from Warwick St up over the hill at High Park St and down to the Dingle. There was no centre, as the road served the streets immediately off the road.

    The overhead railway had an underground station at the end of the road at the Dingle. The station was built after the areas was built up and failed to make that vicinity a centre as underground stations tend to do. The station being a terminus serving only one side was of little help either.

    The station should have been brought onto Merseyrail in the 1970s with a view to extend the line further inland, as the original Overhead Railway plans. In the 1970/80s there was lots of redevelopment about around the station The area around the station then could have been a local vibrant centre and the shops and amenities focused around the dip in the Dingle.

    Instead the city's largest supermarket is being built on the hill away from the station which in the future could be recommissioned. How dumb.

    It is not too late, bringing the station back into commission by implementing this, Circle Line, the area could be even more of an attraction. People from the south docks could get to Park Rd via Brunswick, and Lodge Lane too and beyond. Regenerating an inner city area by using rapid transport - which is already there waiting.

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    Park Road was indeed a lovely viable vibrant thoroughfare, just like Stanley Road, Kensington and others that were of that time but no matter how we romanticise, sadly those days are diminishing bit by bit with these supermarkets all the stuff in one place scenario. County Road though is a classic example of how an area can defy the odds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    Park Road was indeed a lovely viable vibrant thoroughfare, just like Stanley Road, Kensington and others that were of that time but no matter how we romanticise, sadly those days are diminishing bit by bit with these supermarkets all the stuff in one place scenario. County Road though is a classic example of how an area can defy the odds.
    Park Rd was more like Scotland Rd than Kensington - a pub on each block. Fellas would do the Scottie Rd pub crawl of a half in each pub and also the Park Rd one. A pint in each pub would mean you were wrecked at the end of each road. I know a few who did both.

    Park Rd will still have Somerfields and the small shops around we hope. Opening up the underground station just as a terminus initially, with a view to expand, and having Tescos built nearer to the station would improve matters and make for a vibrant district. Pubs and bars and whatever could be built around the station.

    Irrespective if this gets built at High Park St. The station still improve matters, as people would walk to Somerfields easily from the station, as well as serving the district in general.

    The best would have been recommissioning the station in the 1970s when Merseyrail was formed, and then having retail on the demolished old house sites just near. Then the area would already be vibrant and would not have suffered the awful decline it did. Then maybe the Gaumont would have been a leisure complex of small cinemas and shops.

    Underground rail stations attract investment and make vibrant centres - look at London, Munich, Paris, etc.
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