City Centre Living

[Waterways]

Rents for these places in the City Centre are sky high, i beleve a lot are in excess of a £1000 a month, now if your on the minimum wage stacking shelves or packing in a factory, your never going to be able to afford these. What do the planners expect building expensive appartments (and not very good ones) in a area were the average wage dosen't succeed £200 a week? To me there targeting rich outsiders, so its not done for Scousers is it.

The decline of Liverpool saw a brain drain of its people. The ambitious left. The city largely became a working class city with far too many with a handout taking mentality - and it showed.

For a city to get ahead it needs a vibrant active middle class. As Liverpool's middle class left, it needs to be brought back - as well as someone else's middle class enticed in as well.

It is obvious that these new apartments are not meant for sink estate dwellers.

As its already been pointed out, we need more council homes. There is a huge waiting list, going years, yet the planners and the council are too busy knocking down old buildings and replacing them with small paper thin walled shoeboxes and charging extortionate rents. Can they be really surprised any are empty?

We don't need new council homes at all - or very few. The city needs new private homes - owner/occupation. Let people be self sufficient and not rely on the state.

As the city becomes wealthier as the new middle class expands the economy, council homes will need to be built, here and there, however hopefully few.