No one in any of these clearance areas from Gerrard Gardens to the Edge Lane area to the Welsh Streets to Anfield to ... was ever given the choice of being able to stay in a rennovated house. Areas didn't become derelict overnight - the process was slow and is still ongoing. LCC treats the residents in these areas with contempt. It lectures them about what is best for them and their community and its officers assume that they know best! Lies are told about the state of Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing and how difficult it is to rennovate them. Most of the St Michael's area is composed of terraced housing built in a similar fashion to terraced housing in the areas described above and people don't have any problems rennovating their properties. If it can be done in St Michael's it can be done elsewhere.