Demolishing arguments

[AK1]

CAMPAIGNERS today won a major victory in the battle to save hundreds of homes in Liverpool's Edge Lane. more

This was expected. The CPO was always going to be quashed because it was worded wrong. LLDC are putting a new CPO together, which will more than likely be approved. These campaigners have saved hundreds of homes from demolition so that they can rot for even longer. These houses will never be lived in again, and I have a genuine fear that those houses will still be there in that state, in 2008. What is that going to say to visitors? ' Welcome to Liverpool, the grimey dump that you always thought it was '. The vast majority of people in that area want these houses gone, because their lives are being ruined by the road and the lack of local amenities. This section of Edge Lane is extremely dangerous because of the road and other factors such as squating, rats and anti-social behaviour. I just hope for their sake that the next CPO is approved, and fast!! I am fed up with these people getting in the way of major developments. They have proposed an alternative road scheme which is frankly bizzare and wouldn't improve safety or traffic flow. In their plans the new road would stay in the same position but be widened by [B]taking the front gardens off some houses! Therefore the road would be a matter of inches from the houses and they really think that people are going to live in them then? This has only ever been about saving the houses and nothing else. I would love to see them saved but it can't be done and no-one wants them because of the road and the previously mentioned problems.

[AK1]

Anyone know anything about the injunction stopping the edge lane properties from being demoilshed? Can it be overturned?

[wallasey]

What's the hold up with the streets in Anfield? Nothing has happened since I last went there! Has there been a spanner dropped or something??

[lindylou]

Tell me about it !

It's been that way for so long now.

I think I'm living in Brigadoon here.

[AK1]

What's the hold up with the streets in Anfield? Nothing has happened since I last went there! Has there been a spanner dropped or something??

The last I heard, there where houses being demolished but I haven't seen anything as yet. They really need to get going with that area. It has been like that my entire life. I hate travelling through it, it's really depressing. Imagine how local people feel!

[wallasey]

Tell me about it !

It's been that way for so long now.

I think I'm living in Brigadoon here.

The only thing that I have seen happen is that shop corner (which was patched up with sheet metal) collapse slightly. I wonder if the developers have been sitting on the stadium plans? On City, Warren Bradley was talking about the shared stadium plans yet again in effort to keep the Blues in the city. If he get's his way, then Anfield might not get the go ahead!

I know that there are other possibilities for why work has stopped, money being one of them probably, but there might be something in the stadium idea???

[Kev]

LIVERPOOL’S terraced Welsh Streets have been declared free of anthrax deposits, clearing the way for demolition work to start in 2008. more

[Ged]

I know Waterways won't be able to reply to this as he's somehow got himself banned. However, to listen to him forever going on about thicknesses of insulation or not, you'd think that was the only thing that ever mattered and if you're going to use that argument, you'd lose all the fantastic 'terraced' houses on Canning, Huskisson, Percy streets and surrounding areas, Princes Avenue and even all the 30s style on Queens Drive, Menlove and Brodie Avenues with ornamental pots on the roofs and fine footprints etc.

I agree that those built pre war like the flower streets, the bread streets in Dingle and the Welsh streets are small and probably past their sell by dates but there will be a lot of happy memories for many in these and it'll be a wrench for some but a godsend to others if these were to go. One thing is for sure, a sea of new, small characterless little red houses with paper walls isn't always the answer either.

[lindylou]

Our house was built in 1878. I wonder with some amusement if it will become an 'historic building' in 70 years time when it will be 200 years old ! )If it's still standing !

Actually, these houses have been renovated to a good standard, but I do wonder just how long they will remain.
5 generations of my family have lived and died in this house but surely the house won't still be here to be passed onto future family members ??
I expect the houses will deteriorate by then.

Just shows you though how the good old houses have stood the test of time and survived two wars ... I couldn't imagine today's modern new builds to be still remaining after more than 100 years.

Ged you are right about the sentimental side of it - there are so many houses like this that have seen generations of the same family.

There are times when I think how I'd like to move, but I can't ever imagine strangers living in my house.

[Kev]

The birthplace of Beatle drummer Ringo Starr could be knocked down and rebuilt brick by brick at the new £65m Museum of Liverpool on the city's waterfront.

The Victorian terrace in Madryn Street, Toxteth, is one of 460 in the area set to be demolished so new homes can be built in their place.

A campaign to save Ringo's birthplace failed after the city council said it had "no historical significance".

National Museums Liverpool said it would be a "hugely popular" feature.

A spokesman for the museums group said: "We are hopeful that we will be able to give a home to the childhood house of Ringo Starr.

"Negotiations are underway with all parties involved, but there are still many details to be worked out."

Ringo Starr lived at the house for about three months before he moved to Admiral Grove, where he lived for about 20 years.

He now lives in Surrey with his wife Barbara Bach. Building work on the museum, which will replace the Museum of Liverpool Life, is expected to be completed in 2008. BBC Liverpool

[Max]

Only 3 months.

Why bother with It If he was only In that house for that long?

[ayjaykay]

Only 3 months.

Why bother with It If he was only In that house for that long?

It does seem pretty ridiculous. It's hardly his "childhood home" if he only lived their for 3 months!

[shytalk]

Yank tourists will still pay to see it, that is what matters.

[Max]

Arrrrrrrrrrrr, Yankees will pay to see anything.

[Ged]

The museum is free though but I suppose they're here anyway, the tourists, paying into the local economy. Ringo doesn't even want it preserved himself. Shifting it a few miles down the road isn't the same as seeing the community he grew up in, the local pubs and street is it, like John's Mendips, Paul's Forthlin Road or George's house? Ringo spent 20 years in Admiral Grove and that's where he'll be best remembered and the woman who lives there now has it as a shrine to him.