Quote Originally Posted by taffy View Post
I quite like Speke as an example of urban planning. Much more spacious and better laid out than say the contemporary houses of Childwall. I suspect the Speke houses were built to a higher standard than the ones built by private speculators who built what is modern day Childwall.
Yeah some of the new stuff going up looks like it'll blow down in a high wind. The 1930s council built stuff may be crumbling down due to lack of maintenance over the years but they were certainly solid when they went up.