Quote Originally Posted by AK1 View Post
I understand that some of the houses are ok, but it just isn't safe to keep them. I have looked at your website which clearly shows that the road is just feet from the front door of alot of the houses. It also shows that there would be very little greenery and that the pavement is tiny. There is also nowhere to park any cars therefore all the cars would have to be parked either on the road or on the pavement. The LLDC plan would solve all these issues and create better local amenities for residents.
You can't ignore the fact that most people want the houses gone, and that the LLDC plan won't just widen the road like yours, it will create a better environment and better facilities for local people.
I do actually like those houses and do wish that they could stay, but that just isn't an option in this case. To secure the long term future for this part of Liverpool, the houses must be demolished.
Lastly, with reference to the comment that people where made to move out of their homes, that is completely wrong. The population was already falling rapidly long before LLDC got involved and the fact is most of the residents where waiting for someone like LLDC to come along so they could get out.
Liz is holding back a vital regeneration project for Liverpool that has been in the making for the past 10 years. She must concede defeat and stop being so selfish. She is doing what is in her best interests, not what is in the vast majorities.
It is not true to say keeping these houses would be dangerous. Both proposals will actually slow the traffic down in mph terms but speed the journey through better management. Also having the front doors 'just feet' away from the road as you say, will make little difference to anything or anybody. Do you believe that all of the Victorian and Edwardian shops/shopping districts around the country should immediately be demolished due to the shop doorways being too close to the road? Surely busy shopping streets like County road, Allerton road and Old Swan would be more dangerous with people moving in and out of shops into others walking on the pavement?
As for parking, a bit of imagination would show that as the buildings are empty or being emptied and would be converted into flats/apartments then the parking could be placed at the rear with further entrances there.
Greenery again is not so important on a road like this because it is what it is, an urban innercity road. Yes greenary is pleasant but the planting that approaches this section is sufficient. Again if people where desperate for planting, a bit of imagination by the architects would solve this. Planting does not just have to be trees lining a road.
I understand your point based on the facts that you and the developers are putting forward, however, these 'facts' are mistruths and therefore invalid.
What makes me most angry, is that what the developers plan to replace these substantial houses with pastiche new brick rubbish that would look more at home on the outskirts of Birchwood,Warrington and will impress nobody approaching our city. It will simply make the approach look provincial and cheap. If we have to put up with eventually losing this piece of our heritage, at least replace it with something better!!!