I'm fearful...again.. Over how our stadium plans appear to have the redevelopment of the area tied in with it. Now is it LFCs fault that L4 has turned into a ****hole? It has always been a poor working class area, and while Liverpool's purchase of numerous properties may have left a lot of empty houses close to the ground, the club cannot be blamed for the general decline in the area. There are a fair few stadia that are not bang in the middle of slum conditions, so that shows that a football ground is not an automatic indicator that the local community face plants because of it. Decades of neglect by councils past and present is the reason why it is so bad. While L8 and Everton Brow have been regenerated, for some reason L4 got overlooked. Saying that, only a few years back, the council did put double glazing and front railings on a fair number of houses, including privately owned homes. Which the rest of Liverpool didn't get. So why can't the council and a wad of Euro money start work on L4 now? Why is it down to Liverpool??
simply put the planning permission to build on the park was tied to regeneration of the area and doing something with anfield.
Local planning laws. Section 106 of the laws means that anyone who builds anything large and commercial can be required by the local authority to stump up money to improve the local area. It's usually tied to improving infrastructure, so if you build a new supermarket you have to pay to upgrade roads and provide public parking, if you build a load of new houses you have to contribute to local schools etc. But local councils generally just use it to raise funds for whatever building they want to do. It's one of the reasons there's such a huge shortage of houses in the UK - developers find that if they want to build a load of new houses around 75% of their profits is often swallowed by the local authority so they rarely take the risk.
