Originally Posted by
AK1
It's true that alot of the houses are in good condition, but it's also true that no-one wants them and they are in the way of creating a much cleaner, greener, safer and prosperous environment. If they stayed they would simply end up getting diced up into cheap flats that would fall into further dereliction plus the road would become ever more congested and dangerous and new facilities couldn't be built.
You have to think ahead, I would love to see the houses kept but only if all the other enhancements could take place as well which they can't. (by the way, the new paving etc is granite, not concrete.
Many of those glazed yellow brick houses are magnificent!!! If restored they will be far better than any modern house - and look better too. The larger can be converted to flats with correct soundproofing added. Many were made into flats in the 1970s. I know I designed the heating and gas installations in many of them. I must admit the conversions were far from ideal, being built down to a price. Current building regs would improve the conversions. They would need to be highly insulated to keep people from fuel poverty.
I don't believe in keeping something because it is just old. Somethings that are old are not worth having. Some things that are old certainly are. We are running out of fine old buildings in Liverpool. 30 years ago the city was full of fine old buildings - the philistines who ran the city since have decimated the place.
If these homes have to go the re-located replacements must look exactly like them. Not some modern attempt at retro-style which never works - exactly like them in glazed brick, etc.
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