You also have to remember that we are talking about peoples homes. Whether they've been there a year or forty years, it is their home and are being (whether well compensated or not) forced to move out and start again. Not everyone is going to be obliging
Billy I don't live anyhwere near the North West, but every time I've been to Anfield (not so much recently, alas) it's been a fooking nightmare trying to get back to the M62. In fact a couple of times we've even gone back through Widnes & Runcorn to pick up the M56/M6 link. I can tell you one thing - every single Motorway services is absolutely ram jam full of LFC fans heading South
Sorry Dave but "I object your honour". If the only reason these properties haven't been bought up was because of money the club would have them all and would have had them a long, long time ago. That's realism. May I genuinely recommend a trip round the area before the bulldozers move in and see that despite the worst efforts of some their is still a genuine community left there. A couple of quotes from locals from a recent newspaper article: - "On Lothair Road, which backs on to the Anfield Main Stand, one man who lived next door to a house Liverpool own and have left empty, shuttered – "tinned up" as the locals call it – shook his head. "I'm not moving out," he told the Guardian, "I've been driven out." - "Anfield was a good area, all the houses occupied, nothing like it is today," says Macpherson, who runs a garage, Aintree Motors. "The area started to decline in the early 1990s with the city's economic problems. But Liverpool football club accelerated the decline, by leaving good houses empty and boarded up. It wasn't a natural decline; it was engineered." - This FSG plan, then, is strikingly similar to Anfield Plus, which was worked up in 1999, then put on hold for 13 years in favour of the new stadium proposal. Ruth Little, of the Anfield and Breckfield community council, says: "After people suffered so much, from the football club and Your Housing leaving properties empty and blighting the area, when they went back to the original plan I did wonder what the last 12 years of consultation have been for. - Bill Higham, who owns 25 Alroy Road, says he was offered £55,000, which he refused outright, for a house he has had to refurbish twice after it was seriously vandalised. "I find it disgraceful," he says. "After the way the area has been run down, I'm being forced out and they want the properties for a song. They could pay everybody up, properly, for less than one Liverpool player's wage." - Patrick Duggan, chair of Artra, is an ardent critic of the club, whom he vehemently accuses of running the area down. Duggan runs Epstein House, a refurbished hotel in the old Anfield Road family home of the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. Duggan bought it for £450,000, partly, he says, because Liverpool were building a new stadium which would regenerate the area. He has been shocked instead to find the area's degradation, then felt betrayed when FSG scrapped the new stadium plan. "I have always been a Liverpool fan," says Duggan, who has mounted a campaign targeting Ayre. "They play 'You'll Never Walk Alone' but they have left their neighbours to walk alone for years." - Paddy McKay, 58, a builder who has lived for 37 years on Walton Breck Road, is refusing to accept the council's offer. He and his wife Carol brought up three daughters there; he has paid his mortgage off in full and argues that, if he is forced to move, he should be paid enough to buy a similar house somewhere decent and compensation for the years of blight. Even now, antisocial behaviour is continuing on those streets, including house fires. "Liverpool FC have said they want to be good neighbours? They're the world's worst neighbours; they couldn't care less," McKay says. "After all the damage they have done to the area, they should do the decent thing by the residents." Ok you won't read about these people on the club website but they do exist. All good, honest scouse folk (except Pat who is a crazy Irish fella top bloke though) with their roots in those streets.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just saying it doesn't matter what state a house is in, it is still someone's home.
Not all grim Dave. 5 bedrooms these...massive places and (almost) bombproof unlike todays ****e: please log in to view this image Which two of these do you think the clubs owned for years? : please log in to view this image Some done up ones looking alright: please log in to view this image One in Rockfield maybe?: please log in to view this image
Oh Billy my heartstrings are hurting! All of these people have had the possibility to negotiate openly with the club. They are not unique in believing that they've been badly done by - in one way or another I guess we can all find examples that refer to us.
Well if you have no sympathy for the good folk of Anfield I reckon you've been living down south too long It's a sorry tale Dave whether or not anyone gives a **** anymore. Like it or not LFC have helped turn the place into this: please log in to view this image
There is not a chance that the people opposing this are people who live there with families. It will 100% be bitter Everton fans that don't even live there anymore that are willing to lose out on money if it means their empty house getting in the way of LFC's progress.
Used to live on Herschell Street (its been pulled down already) and the place was pretty dead already and that was in '94. Plenty of derelict steel-shuttered houses even back then...
haha, I couldn't own property in that street mate, the stench from the sewage works next to it, is too much.... I'm with Billy on this one, the way it's been handled over the years, has brought misery to some peoples lives - unnecessarily. The council waving the threat of CPO's is merely chest thumping imo.
We should fire them guided missiles that look like airliners into them, and place small nuclear devices in the foundations that leave no fallout. Al Qeada will get the blame - evidently.
