Originally Posted by
PhilipG
Words come cheap.
It's easy to say "Something must be done".
You only have to compare Scotland Road to Park Road to see one example of the difference between north and south Liverpool.
I don't think Scottie Road (after the new Tunnel) has had ANY new buildings in at least 30 years.
Oops, my mistake.
There's a petrol station on the site of Wilbraham House.
That Wallasey Tunnel as a disaster. They should have built a very high bridge. The north end of Liverpool was carved up to get this tunnel in, while in Wallasey little damage was done as they used an old disused rail line for the approach road.
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The north end is dire and does need a massive injection of Middle Class people in there.
That reports makes out that the south of Liverpool is all hunky-dory. It is not. It needs lots of building and re-generation. Comparing the two is wrong.
The north end should not take projects that were destined for the south end. I don't like this bias at all. The imminent re-generation of Stanley Dock and all the north end docks will spill out to the immediate hinterland. The immediate areas should be earmarked for re-gen in parallel to the re-gen of the docks. The developers will be lining up to accommodate when they see the docks being re-generated. The north end doesn't need any priorities over the south end to encourage re-gen the catalyst is already there.
We don't want a London scenario, where there was upmarket dockside flats and complexes and across the East India Dock Rd a working class ghetto. The contrast was marked.
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