Hope Street Area

[Howie]

Maghull's plans for Josephine Butler House

Hope renewed

As major developments on the ever-changing Liverpool skyline reach their conclusion - retail colossus Liverpool One and the Arena & Convention Centre chief among many - one area of focus is set to move increasingly into view in the coming years.

The eastern fringe of the city centre, dominated by Hope Street's cultural attractions and the universities, will be one of the main planks of the new-look Liverpool Vision's inaugural business plan.

According to the Knowledge Quarter Prospectus published recently by the economic development agency, the area turns over £1bn a year GDP and boasts 14,000 full time equivalent jobs.

Plans are being drawn up with Vision and partner organisations for a series of public interventions to create new linkages and squares, improve streetscape, furniture and lighting.

Numerous private developers, including Maghull on Hope Street and Neptune on Lime Street, are driving an unprecedented level of applications for the area through planning. Both Liverpool University and Liverpool John Moores University have bold estates restructuring programmes underway.

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[Howie]

Festival of hope takes to streets
Jun 13 2008
by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo



DANCERS and musicians from around the UK and across the world will perform at a free gospel arts party on Hope Street tomorrow.

Stages will be in place all along Hope Street with a main stage at Liverpool Cathedral blasting out the best in gospel music.

The event, Festival of Hope 08, is the culmination of a two-week City Sings Gospel festival organised to celebrate Liverpool’s year as Capital of Culture, as well as Hope University’s Big Hope 08 and Merseyfest.

Representatives from 40 nations are expected at the celebration and organisers are promising a jam-packed day of entertainment.

Festival spokeswoman Muireann Kyeyune said: “We want our festival to be the pulse of the city, a fabulous one-off party of gospel music and fun for everyone in Liverpool.”

The street festival kicks off at 10.30am with a colourful pageant, described as a procession of hope, from Liverpool Cathedral and taking in surrounding routes including Catharine Street, Myrtle Street and Rodney Street.

As the pageant gets to Hope Street itself, entertainers and performers will get the crowd warmed up.

And a United Walk of Hope, led by Bishop James Jones and the Love and Joy Gospel Choir, will take place in Faulkner Street at 1.40pm.

The street party runs from noon to 5pm, and a market and food stalls will also add colour to the event, while the music itself will continue up until 9pm.

Visit www.festivalofhope08.com for information.

Source: Liverpool Echo

[gregs dad]

From Paddies Wigwam

[Maggie May]

I s there still a wine bar in Hope Street called Kirklands.....also just down from the Everyman there was a house that had been turned into a drinking establishment used to sell 'real ale'.....often used to pop in for a snifter before heading to the Cabin....

[Max]

Maghull's plans for Josephine Butler House

Hope renewed

As major developments on the ever-changing Liverpool skyline reach their conclusion - retail colossus Liverpool One and the Arena & Convention Centre chief among many - one area of focus is set to move increasingly into view in the coming years.

The eastern fringe of the city centre, dominated by Hope Street's cultural attractions and the universities, will be one of the main planks of the new-look Liverpool Vision's inaugural business plan.

According to the Knowledge Quarter Prospectus published recently by the economic development agency, the area turns over £1bn a year GDP and boasts 14,000 full time equivalent jobs.

Plans are being drawn up with Vision and partner organisations for a series of public interventions to create new linkages and squares, improve streetscape, furniture and lighting.

Numerous private developers, including Maghull on Hope Street and Neptune on Lime Street, are driving an unprecedented level of applications for the area through planning. Both Liverpool University and Liverpool John Moores University have bold estates restructuring programmes underway.

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Whats worse Is their replacing It with a piece of turd look modern building that looks like the crappy Paradise street ones Instead of making It fit In with old stuff.

For reasons like this I wish the hulk existed and came to Liverpool to smash all these new garbage buildings that don't fit In.

[Ged]

I s there still a wine bar in Hope Street called Kirklands.....also just down from the Everyman there was a house that had been turned into a drinking establishment used to sell 'real ale'.....often used to pop in for a snifter before heading to the Cabin....

Kirklands was one of the whistle wetters on our top road crawl in the 1980s. It is now called the fly in the loaf in commemoration in the fact it is an ex bakery. It can be found on that site of mine you looked at a few days ago.

[gregs dad]

Hope St on the recent food fair market day,taken from "Paddies Wigwam" plateau.

[gregs dad]

from inside the entrance to Christ the King Cathedral

[ItsaZappathing]

Excellent pics AGAIN GD.

[Kev]

GIANT puppets and mysterious artworks converged on Liverpool?s Hope Street yesterday. Read

[kevin]

Kirklands was one of the whistle wetters on our top road crawl in the 1980s. It is now called the fly in the loaf in commemoration in the fact it is an ex bakery. It can be found on that site of mine you looked at a few days ago.

Yes - had a pint in there a few weeks back, though it isn't actually on Hope St.

Details here:
Fly In The Loaf, Bars, Clubs, Pubs Liverpool United Kingdom

[Howie]

[Howie]

Architecture: Josephine Butler....

....From champion of the oppressed to ?4.9m car-park

It was revealed this week that developers paid ?4.9m for Josephine Butler House, home of the UK's first Radium Institue, on the corner of Hope St and Myrtle St. Now it is set to be demolished and a 16-space car park laid in its place (that's ?306k a space). Here, Hilary Burrage gives her own view

THERE weren't many grand ladies who chose to spend part of their lives ministering to the needy, in the workhouses, in Josephine Butler's day. But she was one of them, protecting - and fighting for - the health and education rights of Victorian society's most vulnerable.

However, slowly (and arguably too late) the name of this Liverpool College headmaster's wife, who was once described as ?the most distinguished woman of the 19th century", is permeating the modern civic psyche of her home town. But for all the wrong reasons.

Josephine Butler has been remembered in archives and institutions around the UK and beyond; her achievements have not been totally lost on Liverpool either. There is a window in her memory in the Anglican Cathedral; the University of Liverpool has a named archive; the Hope Street / Mount Street 'Suitcases' commemorate her, and, until now, Liverpool John Moores University has also acknowledged our collective debt to her reforming zeal, naming one of its properties in Myrtle Street for her.

But recently things have changed.

More than a year ago, LJMU came to a ?10m commercial arrangement with Maghull Properties which saw Josephine Butler House and three other buildings in the Hope Street Quarter, including the the Hahnemann Building, site of the first homoeopathic hospital, and the School of Art, transferred to the Maghull portfolio.

There was, at the time, considerable public concern about the plans which Maghull then presented for agreement by Liverpool city council - plans which included demolition of the LJMU Josephine Butler House.



The small patch of land on which it stands, at the corner of Hope Street and Myrtle Street, is the only non-conservation site in the Hope Street quarter - a surprise, not only because several organisations have been repeatedly urging the city council to rectify this oversight for years, but even more so because Josephine Butler House was, before its academic use, the home of the first Radium Institute in the UK.

Worse, however, was to come.

When the Maghull demolition plans were lodged, several bodies and individuals launched objections and a move was made to have Josephine Butler House listed (it would have been protected without further ado, if within the conservation area), or the permissions for the development refused. Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman called on the council to put a preservation notice on the building.

None of these actions was achieved.



Instead, before any of this could happen, and a few days before a city council planning committee site visit, scaffolding was erected around JB House, and hammers were applied to almost all the frontage of this, until then, quite useable building.





Amazingly, the city council - who might well be judged to have been cocked a snook by these actions - then capitulated to the planning request to demolish it, perhaps because by now the building was in a state of disrepair.

And this is where, a year later, things still ?stand?. The tarpaulins have fallen from the building and the scaffolding has gone, leaving a huge, gaping, sorry and derelict building, previously a very decent example of the construction of its time, at the heart of Hope Street.

In the latest move, the apparently-credit-crunched owners, Maghull, have succeeded in another application to the city council - to use the land it would acquire by razing Josephine Butler House, not to create a commercial, ?boutique hotel? development as originally intended, but to lay... a 16-place car park.

Residents of the adjacent Symphony apartments, every visitor to the Philharmonic Hall, and, crucially, the very many travellers who every day pass through this prime gateway to our cathedrals, universities and city centre, none of them can miss the grim evidence of civic neglect which the shell of Josephine Butler House now presents.

It would be fair to say sympathy is limited for those who now wish to ?develop? the Josephine Butler House site, credit crunch or not. Nor is there much evidence of sympathy for the city council, which gave the permissions which have allowed this situation to develop.

Why did no one listen to the many concerned voices? Perhaps some of them now rue overriding the deep concerns of many ordinary people and not ?just? the usual conservation suspects.

The Josephine Butler House saga is not over. Many still wish fervently that it can be restored to good, sustainable use. How this might be achieved lies with the city council and commercial stakeholders in the building.

But that is not all. Increasingly, and especially following the critial article by Ed Vulliamy in the Observer of 20 March, the eye of those further afield is also upon us.

What is happening to the memory of Josephine Butler and the building named for her is important for Liverpool, a city which claims to be restoring its civic pride and wider reputation.

Not everyone as yet knows about Hope Street's association with Josephine Butler, but most are aware of the connection between another of Liverpool's citizens, John Lennon, and the School of Art which he attended, a building bought and leased back by Maghull to LMJU until 2011.

Now might be a good time to reflect on how 'developments' may look in the longer term, if we do not take account either of the buildings which define the Hope Street area, or the sons and daughters of the city who have conducted their business for more than a century in this uniquely special quarter.

Hilary Burrage www.hilaryburrage.com

Source: Liverpool Confidential

[danensis]

I was born and brought up in Liverpool 8. I, and all the others were oblivious to it. We never gave it a second glance.

You obviously didn't live within earshot of those bells!

John

[Ged]

Last friday there was a conference and parade of Halewood's new Range Rover Evoque on Hope Street.




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