Liverpool people; can you help???

Question

Hi all Liverpudlians; I went to Liverpool for the first time today, and I enjoyed it by the way; it's a lovely city with very friendly people. But I wondered; does anyone know why there are 100s and 100s of homes boarded up on the way in to Liverpool (just after you get off the M62, as you head for Edge Lane Drive...) Was it anything to do with the riots in the 80s? Or is it because of re-generation of the city? Or is it just because they have been abandoned?

Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

Hi Crazy girl, I hope you enjoyed your visit to Liverpool

If you came in from the M62 into the city centre you will have travelled down Edge Lane. Originally the motorway was supposed to end in the city centre (I think it finishes at Junction 4) but the authorities never got round to completing it.

The city council planned to widen the road into a thoroughfare because the main road becomes something of a maze as it enters the city centre, and a few years back the council compulsory purchased the houses which needed to be demolished to make way for the new road.

Unfortunately (as is usual with Liverpool City Council) they made a mess of the purchases, and local residents won an injunction at the high court last year to stop the demolition because procedures had not been followed.

So in our big year, which I think many will now agree has been a roaring success, the first thing that many visitors see of the city is this area of boarded up houses.

This could only happen in Liverpool.

Can I suggest a much better route if you come again. Get off the M62 at junction 6 (Tarbock Island) take the A5300 Knowsley express way to Speke blvd, turn right and follow the road past the Jaguar factory, John Lennon airport on to Aigburth Vale. Turn right into Jerico Farm Road onto Otterspool Promenade and follow the road along the river right to the Pier Head. Its a much easier way in, is well signposted, and takes you through some of the nicer areas of Liverpool (why the city council do not make this the major tourist entrance into the city is beyond me)

BTW much of Toxteth is actually quite nice, and is proving popular with people who want to live close to the city centre.

Answer 2

No its nothing to do with the riots, if its where I think you mean the council has compulsary purchased them in order to widen the road.

Answer 3

the regeneration :D

there doin it all over (:

am from liverpool btw in everton :D

by the city center haha.

xx