That's most people's view of the situation. However the website that I am currently working on shows how to save all the houses and still widen the road and improve the traffic flow by making changes to certain right turns and the like.Originally Posted by AK1
Great news, NOT! I can understand saving buildings like these but not here. These houses have to go to improve life for everyone around that area. The road must be widened or it will come to a stand-still in a few years. I can imagine it now, visitors driving down edge lane expecting to see a 21st century city that is moving forward but instead they will see a heavily congested unsafe road with derelict properties surrounding it. It's not just about visitors either, most of the people in that area want the houses gone to improve access to local amenities, create more crossings and to create new housing and jobs. Instead they will have to continue living in squalor with poor local amenities and a poor quality of life.
I support saving old victorian buildings, but in this case I think they have to go. Liverpool's heritage must be preserved but not in cases such as these where preserving it would mean ruining the lives of the people that live there. Nobody wants these houses and many are beyond repair, even the ones that could be repaired wouldn't sell because of the road and the rubbish local facilities. I just hope they are at least demolished before 2008.
I have been in to numerous houses on Edge Lane just before they were boarded up and the bods who were putting the metal plates on told me that if they had their way, the'd offer the council some money to keep the houses. Some are in a bad way but the majority need slightly more than a lick of paint and some work doing - nothing structural. They are massive from the side of the buildings and go a long way back.
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