That's ok Rodders, keep posting, it's all just opinions and we're all opnionated. Harry also said 'Some of your precious Liverpool people' indicating he's not scouse himself and it's like we've only ourselves to blame. I can't do much about 2 shop owners wanting a fair deal anyway can I - or you (if that's what the delay was about and not just greed)
Yes, in the post I'd deleted I was going to say how ''we fight like hell on
here sometimes,ha,ha, and even members who normally never
have a cross word, will agree to disagree form time to time.
Things get all out of proportion sometimes.
Another view of the row from outside the entrance to the Holiday Inn.
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Those shops do look awful don't they. Talk about a blot on the landscape
I'm not a Scouser either but until recently i lived and worked in liverpool for 14 years (still work there for now)
I agree that the site is an eyesore. The council have been blocking a rival tower development on the car park site between the spar and old las vegas casino because they have a vested interest in this development and want to get in there first.
That's interesting Rodders. Who owns the land and how do you know this snippet?
I'm not sure of the client but i know the architects have had an outline planning application approval but the council is trying to go back on this.
They want floors knocking off it so i cannot be seem over the top of theirs and they were wanting materials changing. I was led to believe the existing tower redevelopment was a joint venture between the council and owner.
Edit. I think this is it. Application number 05F/3033 or this one 05F/0294
I may be wrong about outline permission being granted. I'll check.
Last edited by RoddersUK; 01-29-2008 at 04:40 PM.
I'm just re wording that 'cos it came across sounding a bit arrogantOriginally Posted by lindylou
I don't care what anyone else thinks about my opinion - but for what it is worth I thought it stubborn and selfish that those scruffy shops have held up progress.The front of that station should be transformed into a smart entrance for Lime st station. It should have been done long ago.
what I mean to say is; whether I am right or wrong - I wouldn't care, and I would still sweep those shops away no matter what anyone wants - I would bin them.
Hope that makes more sense
let's just get rid of the d amn things.
I think they look nice....
Shouldn't be long now-all the shops are closed. Bohm's books closed on the 26th according to a notice in the window [I think he's off to the former Brown's jeweller's shop on London Rd],Ladbroke's have closed,and the cafe on the corner was shuttered up when I went past. Although he could just have been shut,it was unusual in the daytime,so perhaps he's gone too.
Dave.
I am a scouser. I know that some of the shops were owned by Liverpool people.
We can't have it both ways, wanting to see urban process for the people of the city on one hand and then neglecting to criticise those holding it up.
If the council owned these properties and had destroyed multi-million pound schemes for selfish reasons, they would get hammered.
Being from Liverpool does not exempt anyone from criticism on this forum.
Here we go again!
Why assume the shopkeepers were Scousers?
Anybody who'd been into those two shops would know why I'm quite sure they weren't all Local, or do I run the risk of being called a racist?
But that isn't the point.
Whatever nationality we are we have the right to look after our own interests.
Harry, the leather shop was run by Pakistani guys.
Not sure on Bohm's but it don't sound scouse to me.
When protecting your interests (assuming you're not being greedy and are offered the going rate and not an Edge Lane scenario), then that is no problem.
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