I agree that it's time for Liverpool to move on. I love my home city and I want it to be up there with the best.
Yes, we've got to think about our children and grandchildren to let them have a city to be proud of. You have to move with the times and not wallow in the past - - - but that doesn't mean that we should sweep away anything just because it's old. Our history and heritage can be preserved alongside progress and change.
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Waterways, I know you argue against the old terraces, but I don't think we should sweep away our fine old terraced houses just for the sake of it - there are still some fantastic old houses in good condition which should not be replaced by ticky tacky boxes. Victorian housing can be renovated to high standard. My own house being an example, and I love my 1878 house.
(we'd never be able to afford another house of this size) I think that old houses can be got rid of when their time is right - and it's not time yet for many of them. Our house is hanging in there and it's not time yet to throw in the towel
If our place was unpleasant and uncomfortable to live in, I would agree then to swap it for a ticky tacky box
- but these houses are still solid and even more so after renovation.
We can still have beautifully renovated houses in our urban districts, and yet have exciting and new buildings elsewhere and in the right locations. New and old existing alongside each other.
ps, we should have had 'The Cloud' it would have been amazing. Liverpool should move on even more and be a bit daring. Now we can see how marvellous the L'pool skyline is looking - wouldn't it be even more marvellous to have a building so unusual like the Cloud would have been, something striking that no one else has got.
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