Informative video,Liverpool has a long long way to go but fingers crossed, but what i have noticed is the lack of TREES, it's streets look souless without any trees , come on Liverpool it's not difficult to plant some trees !
I totally agree with you. If there is one thing that can really make the difference in how desirable a neighborhood or city is, it's trees and relatively speaking, they aren't that expensive of an addition.
@@ians3586 I'm afraid I'm a 'tree sceptic'. Having my photographic sightlines blocked by security camera poles, lamp posts, telegraph poles and trees can be most annoying! That's why it's easier to photograph building facades in the winter, when the leaves have fallen! Right, I won't say any more about this!! :)
The streets shown are on the outskirts of the city centre and towards Bootle Docks, The outskirts used to be light industry areas and towards Bootle Docks are all the heavy industries. Everton`s song `You`re in my heart you`re in my soul` and they pick the most soulless place to build.
I was just about to comment on your previous Manchester video, "Please do one of these for Liverpool', but low-and-behold, my prayers were answered! Nice one matey!
I try to alternate between Manchester and Liverpool, though there is more construction going on in Manchester than Liverpool at the moment. This video is doing much better than the Manchester 17 projects one, 5.1k views in the first 2 days compared to 3.2 for the Manchester one.
This video is very interesting to understand the urban growth of the city of Liverpool, which I hope to move to very soon and join the NHS. Greetings from Spain and you now have a new subscriber :)
The city have reserved that section as high rise. Calling that ugly ramshackle collection of commercial/industrial buildings as an estate is pushing it.
The former Everton FC captain, Dave Watson and his brother Alex, who played for Liverpool FC, grew up in a maisonette block that used to stand next to the railway arch on Boundary Street where your station will be situated. I went to St Alban's primary school on Athol St with Dave.
Many thanks for your comment. I'm glad you learned something. My background is in online language teaching - English and German - so I like to provide lots of information!
Another nice piece of work Aiden, I like Liverpool & have good memories of working at various venues across the City from the 80’s right up to the present day 😅
@@AidanEyewitness Aidan you need to drive in any direction 3 miles from the City centre and your 'feelgood' factor my change somewhat🤔🤔 And yes i was born and bred in Liverpool back in 1965 👍👍
Not with our metro mayor , likes of liverpool starts a Kirkby and ends at the city centre , verbal promises that never materialise , ie new station for Bramley Moore , going to be a nightmare around Regent st
I don't know if the Bramley Moore station is going to materialise. It's going to be a massive amount of people going to and from the stadium. Many thanks.
Very well done. I think your site suggestion for a Bramley Moore stadium station is spot on. I just get the impression from this video that Liverpool has big unrealized ambitions. It's quite a contrast to what is happening in London and nearby Manchester and it's a little depressing. The visualization at 5:29 is impressive. It reminds me of London's Wood Wharf which is very actively being realized. Speaking of Wood Wharf you feature in the video One Park Lane which is a curved building as is Wood Wharf's One Park Drive, though that's about all they have in common. I think Liverpool, with docks, historic architecture and riverside location, has the potential to be a world class city (again) and hopefully that will eventually happen.
That visualisation at 5:29 is by Peel Holdings for their Central Docks project but the area is still empty. I'll have to take a look at Wood Wharf in London. As for LIverpool, I think it is already a world class city due to its history and worldwide fame.
Love your videos! Interestingly enough, there is another development right by the Baltic Triangle area, right next to One Park Square, and the new train station, it's called Central Park, set to complete next year I believe. Keep up the great content!
Thanks for the fantastic feedback. Thanks also for flagging up Central Park, which is located to the rear of Baltic Square. The framework of a building has been put up. You’ve clarified things for me now so I am going to feature it in my upcoming video on the Baltic Triangle. Many many thanks!
The straight answer is: I don’t know. I am not focused on these developments as investment opportunities and so can’t give any advice. Thanks for asking in any case. 😊
Hey, some further information for those curious: Hemisphere will have two identical office buildings now & one residential block behind those two. That derelict building you mentioned @2:40 recently had a planning permission to demolish & construct a 14 storey apartment block I think 2 weeks ago. The new canning drydock proposal just got accepted today I believe! Legacie are basically our lifeline here in Liverpool, they are mr reliable. I'm pretty disappointed with the speed its taking to get the baltic train station started, it was supposed to be originally complete by 2025... There's multiple places to have the station around Bramley moore area yet I can't believe we don't have concrete plans for one, with the resi apartments & stadium being built, what are they waiting for? Good public transportation is very important (if not the most) for the growth of city areas.
Thanks for all the information, many thanks! I think you're right about Legacie. As far as the stations are concerned, over in Cheadle, Stockport, they've been planning to re-open the station near the village which was on the Stockport to Altrincham and Chester (Mid-Cheshire) line. It closed in 1917. The new station is just a single platform with a 'bus shelter' and a small car park and it's taken many years. Wikipedia says it's opening in 2025. We'll wait and see!
Additional entrances to the south of Sandhills station are being constructed being paid for by Everton FC. No extra platforms. Extra platforms can be built on the viaduct. Any station needs a high throughput. For example, Wembley Park shifts 35,000 per hour. Sandhills will only scratch the surface of a full Bramley Moore Dock stadium. A stadium which will have poor transport provision.
@@johnburns4017 Thanks for the info. Sandhills is quite a bit further than my proposed station. Football fans are going to be using up a lot of boot leather!
@@AidanEyewitness Having a new station near the stadium, which would be very near to Sandhills station, there would be four platforms spread over two stations. Maybe have Sandhills serving north and a new station serving south only on matchdays. Football only services from Sandhills to the north and a new stadium station serving only the south. Trains could line up at Kirkdale sidings nearby for the end of the game to shift fans out quickly. Sandhills would still need extra platforms bolted to the sides of the viaduct (as they do in London) with an extra entrance to the south end of the station. But who will fund a new station on a viaduct and extra platforms at Sandhills? Money is not even forthcoming to build a station on the Bootle Branch for Liverpool FC. I cannot see any changes made to Sandhills apart from the new southern entrances paid for by EFC. They may divert some buses to the stadium, that is about it. In normal everyday use a new station nearer to Liverpool Waters _may_ be viable. There have been _proposals_ to build a station between Moorfields and Sandhills but nothing concrete whatsoever. Maybe Rotheram is waiting for the HS2 money? 😄
@@AidanEyewitness Many major cities have the need for new or reopened stations. Students have been crying out to reopen Sefton Park station in Liverpool for decades. This would eliminate a laborious bus trip.
It's great to see all these skyscrapers cropping up in the North West, we need more modern looking skylines in the UK (alongside London) but keeping the traditional buildings too, Frankfurt in Germany does this perfectly.
Frankfurt is an interesting example of high rise, the only city in Germany to do this, though Berlin is starting to have some tall buildings. I think tall skylines look great!
Many thanks, nice to hear from you. I feel the same, though in some ways, Liverpool was messed up by the slum clearances of the 1960s in the Scotland Rd area, as well as road schemes, demolitions, flyovers. I think things are improving - slowly.
Ireland officially annexes Liverpool, which is an Irish town and Cornwall. These areas now officially form a part of Greater Ireland and are liberated.
I saw and met Uachtarán na h-Éireann President Michael D Higgins on his visit to Liverpool a few years ago. He claimed many famous Liverpool people with Irish backgrounds but didn’t make any territorial claim!
It would be ideal if Grosvenor / Peel Estates who own the waterfront ( I think ) would install the overhead railway once again ???? Excellent Podcast Aidan.
This topic has often been mentioned, but I have a feeling that some kind of elevated railway will return to the waterfront, maybe when development is more advanced. Keep watching AidanEyewitness!
If they build a station for the Bramley Moore dock, its only 1/2 mile from Sandhills to where you propose a new station. It gains the railway nothing financially, for the one maybe two days in a week it would be used for, Merseyrail would have to staff it with the numbers of people using it, so its an extra build cost of £Millions for zero gain. It does worry me though the lack of thoughts about catering to the fans needs , its apparently glamorous to be a ``on the river`` location, They ignored the entire area is one big industrial estate. No shops No Pubs Nothing. A shiny new button on a dirty pair of overalls. When labour Mayor Joe Anderson was linked to some highly iffy contractor business dealings and the linked planning permissions. Lots of building projects were put on hold while investigations were carried out.
That's a fair point about Sandhills. It's only a short distance. But it wouldn't just be football fans using the station, there are going to be more and more residential projects in this area. The idea of placing the stadium in the former industrial, dockside area is that it will be a catalyst for the development of the whole area. In 10 years time it will be very different. Actually there is one pub in the area, opposite the stadium, it's the Bramley Moore! Thanks for that info, if projects were put on hold pending investigations, that could explain a few things. Many thanks for your comment with some very interesting points!
The proposed site is also in a residential area, whereas Sandhills is not. One thing that always surprises me is the amount of derelict land in Liverpool. The potential for development is unlimited, however it will probably take at least another fifty years of investment before we see any serious progress. Liverpool Waters is now on track, and it is a thirty year programme of works. We need at least another four or five developments of similar size to continue with our resurgence. It will happen one day, but I fear I will not be around to see it.
@@pleasantville4529 The proposed site is NOT residential, is half a mile away on the same industrialised area. Just because its derelict, it doesn't mean is not privately owned. any potential for development needs the existing businesses on the river to pack up. A resurgence means increasing its past status. I dont think the old docks are coming back into use. What do you mean by more developments, more hotels? the further from the city centre, the less attractive the hotel. Joe Anderson had a warped dream of the Mersey becoming like the Thames, isn't it a pity he was not the right character to do it.
@@marksavage1108 If you take a look at 4:05, you can clearly see residential properties. The derelict land which I mention, is not only in the North Docks area. There are vast swathes of derelict land all over Liverpool, and also, there are not many businesses currently trading in the North Docks area, so any future development would not require dealings with businesses, but rather the land owners. As for Anderson, he only wanted what was best for himself, and his cronies. He must have some serious information about some very dangerous individuals, because he is still walking free.
@@pleasantville4529 I stand corrected, but then all the more reason for planning to be discarded as residents will block the plans. trains screeching to a stop over looking their houses invading privacy.
Medium density over a large area can yield as big a population as having megatowers concentrated in a few areas. If Liverpool sticks to its guns its strategy might just work.
This was the wonderful city where I was born 80 years ago what a monstrous carbuncle they have made of it no foresight just endless glass & brick all the buildings look the same swallowing up the most beautiful architecture of my childhood. Thankfully the people are still the same but dear oh dear I will never go back to witness the butchery of this once beautiful place I called my home shame on the people allowing this to happen
Don't despair, there is still a lot of the original architecture of Liverpool there. The area around Castle Street and the Pier Head, along Dale Street and down to Victoria Street, the Georgian District near the Anglican Cathedral, to mention just a few places. In the 50s, much of Liverpool was derelict, people lived in slums, there was poverty, pollution, crime. Liverpool is a fantastic city with a spirit and atmosphere all of its own. There's nowhere else like it. I love the waterfront along by the Albert Dock and the Pier Head. Please don't give up on Liverpool!
Seen and heard all this before..both under..Labour and Liberal councils...going all the way back to the 1960's..and The Grand Plan for Queen square and surrounds...what did we get. A 2 way bus station route ...big deal..meanwhile the city at the other end of the ELR...goes from strength to strength..seems a new skyscraper goes up every month E
Totally agree , just wait and see what the Liverpool city council have planned for in and around the Strand area of the City You think traffic is bad now
Your right they have destroyed this once stunning city with their giant skyscraper buildings it’s getting like any city anywhere bloody gross & ugly not really a place for human beings maybe a place for uncaring mindless robots who neither care for the environment they have created or what they live in completely soul less
Joe Anderson has been off the scene since he was arrested in December 2020. He hasn't been charged with anything, the police investigation, I believe, is ongoing. But what has gone on behind closed doors is still an important question.
@@AidanEyewitness known Merseyside police. and there corruption. It will disappear. Auld Joe was crafty he used cash so nothing can be found . his son David has probably hid it in property across UK ..
@@AidanEyewitness Philistine Anderson with Rotheram's support by his inaction, were responsible for the stripping of the World Heritage status. UNESCO specifically mentioned the stadium. Prior to that, Anderson allowed the infilling of Wellington Dock, which held the magnificent tall sailing ships in 2008. The dock was next to Bramley Moore Dock also being in a World Heritage zone. Although Boris Johnson could have intervened, as the heritage stripping was an embarrassment to the UK as a whole. Like Rotherman, he also did sweet nothing, being complicit by inaction. Anderson was pushing the new EFC owners to take the Bramley Moore Dock site for a new stadium while the ideal site for a stadium is the vacant Garston Gas works site which could accommodate two stadia. The transport provision is 100% even with a 6-platform parkway station nearby. So Everton get a small waterlocked stadium, too small for the club's support, with poor transport provision. You couldn't make this tripe up.
I'm hoping to see some good development of the empty fields around the Park road and North hill street area. It's only a stone's throw away from the Baltic triangle but the land has been empty for years. There's a lot of empty land and the fields are a good size to build some ambitious projects, and it's always good to see some more investment in Liverpool 8.
TWO SIDES to the mersey and more opportunity on Wirral river front .Left bank development potential Wirral Waters Sports City .It always if anything happening on birkenhead wirral its merseyside and if happens on other side its Liverpool.
These are in the centre, there are other developments further out, for instance on the old Garden Festival site. Some families live in flats, I did as a child.
@@AidanEyewitness yes and the center is spreading outwards. Show me where there are any houses getting built from aigburth, in the south, to Bootle in the north. These flats/ bedsits just aren't made for families. They are poorly built because of the materials and design . I've worked on them and I think we are just building future slums.b
It’s unfortunate that none of the changes include any architectural significance in terms of infrastructure as all the rail network systems like exchange station and the dock lifelines from Canada dock to the electrified rail network have all been filled in. This shows the intent of the Government to deny any development of logistics to move freight. The isolation of the port access to enable passenger access is also a massive problem. These meaningless buildings all seem to be built in strategic positions to make sure this cannot be undone. Perhaps a look at the old maps of the turn of the century could show how it is supposed to work. Bootle now is the most neglected and deserted place in the country. After being bombed to bits during the war and totally left to rot. The only possible chance of a rebirth could be some national move to end the use of the docks as a processing graveyard as it now is for the storage of scrap metal and to build new state of the art rail and motorway access to the docks. As planned before the common market.
You appear to be very confused. Seven years ago a second container terminal accommodating the world's largest ships was built at Liverpool. There was a survey a few years back to get a fully separate line into Liverool docks. The old Bankfield goods station looks an ideal way in by uncovering the infilled approach cuttings and taking a line out to the WCML and east to Leeds via Preston. Only after Aintree station would the freight trains need to share track with Merseyrail. There is only one diesel line into the docks right now. Garston Docks has electric lines into the port. This may have been defence related as war clouds are forming. Liverpool is the only deep water port on that coast, and as in WW2, vital. Amazingly, and naively, Liverpool's Seaforth container terminal when opened in 1972 never had any rail access. All was via truck, as most containers were taken direct to their end destinations. Liverpool's port trade is growing. Many new large logistical sheds have been built and a number planned. There is also a move to have containers for the North of England entering northern ports, not coming in from the south. The rail tunnel from James St to Central, now used as a stock interchange, was reduced to one track as building works were built on a part of the tunnel. A deliberate ploy to curtail growth if it was to be used for passengers, which underpins your point.
It’s not me confused ???? Please look at the original layout of the rail system . The new deep water docks could have utilized all the existing footprint of the of the commercial road sub terrain sidings. As you must know the rail system ( electrified line) access via Canada dock is completely filled in. Alexandre dock has a solitary line via fazackerly which is not the main line required to go east then south via Runcorn. Containers dropped in Seaforth could easily have been shunted to the sidings and either shifted by rail or road. You fail to observe that the unused docks from Seaforth to Liverpool have been hyjacked by a scrap metal processing and storage facility that could be sited elsewhere Not to store and process there as this is only for tax avoidance and total disregard and bad use of the docks. If you come to Liverpool and take journey through the dock system you would be able to see this for yourself . 7 miles of former warehouse facility largely neglected and disused since World War Two. That was 1939 to 45 . Virtually 80 years of total neglect. That is there now for all to see. The new Liverpool two is still unused . The main ship the Atlantic conveyor still uses Gladstone dock not Liverpool 2 . Peel holdings had the idea of transferring freight from ship to barge via the ship canal transferring logistics. The shipping companies don’t want double handling and favor southern ports as a preference . This brings me on to the 1960,s plan m62 and 58 direct to docks. Liverpool docks is the least preferred dock in the country by transport haulers because Peel holdings have made a total mess of their plans. All these road alterations were abandoned when we joined the common market. Now we are left with unfinished motorways m57/58/62/53. To get back to the current buildings strategically built in places that prevent the docks and passenger cruise terminal being accessed. These new buildings are directly bad decisions and don’t suit architectural definition for a port. At present we have another mindless and ill thought out proposal to build a new road through Seaforth to the M58 almost child like in its conception.
@@geoffsimms7265 You have not much of a clue. There has never been electrified lines into Liverpool's port, only into Garston. Read what I write. Liverpool2 is well used. From Bramley Moore Dock northwards all those docks are well used. and becoming increasingly busier. New sheds have been built. Cargo handling has changed greatly in the past 50 years. Birkenhead Docks are used as are Garston and the Ship Canal from Eastham to Runcorn (a linear dock). There is virtually zero trade above Runcorn. You are right that Peel have made a mess of it. Their idea of port Warrington and port Salford fell flat as only smallish ships with bulk cargoes would ever use that canal. Rail does it much better. It needs partially filling in from Runcorn upwards making a straight fast rail line and narrow-boat canal.
@@johnburns4017 Oh dear. Like I say do your study on how access to the main line link was achieved. What you have to understand is that Liverpool was a major port and the freight could move from commercial sidings wavertree allerton garston then all points south. Those lines got abandoned but could have become reactivated. A government enquiry did not see fit to reactivate in favour of road haulage and the new request by the simple minded peel holdings idea of transferring freight up the ship canal. As a result of peel holdings stupid influence and resultant filling in of the rail network at Canada dock where by thousands of tonnes of hardcore was used to block the rail system where it connected. All you have to do is access the rail system as it was as late as the 1960’s. All filled in now of course. Also please get up to speed with the abandoned motorway network. As a reminder to you study the other tunnels abandoned and left to rot. Victoria Waterloo Wapping Edge hill Crown street etc. all of them abandoned and in need of maintenance . These cover many miles and are a major civil engineering problem that are not inspected regularly and could collapse like one did at Roscoe station in dingle. The ignorance of people who just don’t read or study is beyond belief. Also you say Liverpool 2 is used. For information the original Gladstone dock plays host to the largest container ship that uses the docks and was there before the installation of the large transfer cranes installed to transfer over to barges. These are not used anything like what was envisaged and stated on the business case and as far as beneficial use they are a complete failure. Do your study on the freight users report for Liverpool 2 as it a complete and utter failure so far. Garston by the way is not a deep water dock nor is it part of Liverpool docks but does have an electrified line. It was connected to Canada dock many years ago via the link thro wavertree but electrified progress never got installed obviously because the 3 mile link was decommissioned . My problem is that all these projects outlined as progress are in actual regression because they are proposed to be built blocking the re activation of these stations. As an interest when the Princess dock was a direct main line link and exchange station was the main station before lime street was conceived. Liverpool is in big trouble of being destroyed by ignorance.
@@geoffsimms7265 Liverpool had about 9 lines into the port which was reduced to one, the Bootle Branch (old Canada Docks Branch Line). The Canada Dock goods terminal closed in 1982 with the alignment protected until recently. The below road level yard was filled into to road level. No electric line ever entered Liverpool's port. Liverpool 2 is not a failure at all. Considering reduced trade after Covid is more than holding its own. It can handle just about the largest ships in the world. The in-river berth can be widened if the largest ships come, of which there is only a handful of them. A survey to take into the port a _wholly separate_ line, was pointing to open up the cuttings and tunnels from the Liverpool-Southport line into Bankfield, next to Canada Dock goods as a second route into the port. Seaforth container terminal uses riverlock gates that are the same size as the Panama Canal.
Well in Manchester, the Etihad stadium has a tram stop next to it and Old Trafford has its own station (well, a platform). I think we need a fleet of volocopter air taxis to ferry the fans from the city centre to the stadium in style! :)
I think Liverpool can go its own way, I don't think it needs to copy Manchester. There are some good projects under way but we need more. Thanks for commenting.
Liverpool will get there eventually, I’m not sure I’d like to see huge student towers all over Liverpool, they’re building a nice city without them. And lots of skyscrapers are coming near Princess dock as Beetham have bought the site and promised several skyscrapers.
I visited the new Everton stadium very recently and it looks great. But, then drove to Anfield and onto Goodison Park. Jesus! What a 3rd world dump! The litter was everywhere. It was truly shocking. What a shame as there were a few decent areas. Great vid again. Thanks 👍.
Thanks very much - rubbish on the streets is a problem all over urban areas in the UK. Everton Park has litter everywhere. It's a great shame, I can't understand why people can't dispose of it properly!
I don't think it's right to set Liverpool against Manchester - Manchester is unique in the whole of the UK for its current huge investment, but we had to wait decades for it. Liverpool can do it its own way but progress is too slow and investment is far less than it should be.
Manchester has identikit glass blocks. Not appealing overall IMHO. They do not replace good planning, and at times appeases developers who want to maximise a plot. Throwing up such random buildings is what third world countries do saying _we have made it._ A walk around the streets of these rapidly expanding cities says something else. What makes cities attractive is what is at street level. Liverpool has a policy like London and Paris. Low rise but high in selected places. Such a policy can have density, and vibrancy, look at Paris. Incidentally, Liverpool city has a larger footprint than Paris.
My background is Irish, I was born and grew up in NW England, but I have learned German to near native speaker standard and I teach it online (as well as English). I want to use my languages as much as possible and not keep my knowledge of German hidden.
Why can't we go back to the gothic for inspiration instead of these new monstrous building that look like cheep housing for the ongoing mass immigration to Liverpool
Gothic is not today's style and the craftsmanship is no longer there. There is an example of a modern building that's classically inspired and that's the Trafford Centre, but I know some people - including many architects - don't like it!
the difference in development between Liverpool and Manchester appears to be increasing. Is it just me or Liverpool not only looks, but feels like a large town and not a proper City?
In this video I have featured construction projects and we haven't seen anything of the city. Liverpool is definitely a city, with a city feel and a unique atomosphere you won't find anywhere else. And yes, it has a large city centre.
@@rewind12354 The city centre is getting bigger extending in the north to Bramley Moore Dock, having expanded south to the Baltic. It is debatable if the Knowledge Quarter is in the city centre, but that has moved eastwards. An underground metro station was planned in the 70s for this district using the miles of unused tunnel under the city. Then came the Tories. The north and south extremes of the centre will have stations, the east needs one after 45 years of waiting.
Informative video,Liverpool has a long long way to go but fingers crossed, but what i have noticed is the lack of TREES, it's streets look souless without any trees , come on Liverpool it's not difficult to plant some trees !
I totally agree with you. If there is one thing that can really make the difference in how desirable a neighborhood or city is, it's trees and relatively speaking, they aren't that expensive of an addition.
@@ians3586 I'm afraid I'm a 'tree sceptic'. Having my photographic sightlines blocked by security camera poles, lamp posts, telegraph poles and trees can be most annoying! That's why it's easier to photograph building facades in the winter, when the leaves have fallen! Right, I won't say any more about this!! :)
The streets shown are on the outskirts of the city centre and towards Bootle Docks, The outskirts used to be light industry areas and towards Bootle Docks are all the heavy industries. Everton`s song `You`re in my heart you`re in my soul` and they pick the most soulless place to build.
We had loads of trees back in 1984 around the International Garden Fiasco🤭
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@@marksavage1108It's not Everton's song. Are you alluding to the Everton Disabled Supporters Association motto ?
I was just about to comment on your previous Manchester video, "Please do one of these for Liverpool', but low-and-behold, my prayers were answered! Nice one matey!
I try to alternate between Manchester and Liverpool, though there is more construction going on in Manchester than Liverpool at the moment. This video is doing much better than the Manchester 17 projects one, 5.1k views in the first 2 days compared to 3.2 for the Manchester one.
Brilliant video. Highly informative. Great drone work.
Many thanks, glad to receive your positive feedback!
This video is very interesting to understand the urban growth of the city of Liverpool, which I hope to move to very soon and join the NHS. Greetings from Spain and you now have a new subscriber :)
Many thanks for subscribing and for the positive feedback. Good luck in your new job and have fun in the great city of Liverpool.
That's great, many thanks and sorry for the long time it has taken to reply! Are you in Liverpool now! Many thanks for subscribing!
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
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So much going on in these cities. Its strange that it took so long for developers to recognise the value of these urban spaces
Well in previous decades there was economic stagnation and a lack of appreciation of the city and its architecture.
Beetham have bought the industrial estate near princes dock and have promised several skyscrapers so it should be interesting.
That sounds interesting, I must look into that. Thanks for letting me know.
@@AidanEyewitnessNo worries, love the videos.
The city have reserved that section as high rise. Calling that ugly ramshackle collection of commercial/industrial buildings as an estate is pushing it.
The former Everton FC captain, Dave Watson and his brother Alex, who played for Liverpool FC, grew up in a maisonette block that used to stand next to the railway arch on Boundary Street where your station will be situated. I went to St Alban's primary school on Athol St with Dave.
Wow, I didn't know that. It's great to hear stuff like this. Every street corner has a hidden story to tell!
@@AidanEyewitness maybe one day Dave could cut the ribbon on your station 😁
@@martinquirk7468 That would be great! 😀
Amazing introducing. I have been Liverpool city. But never notice about the building history. Next time will do.
Very clearly video. Thanks🎉
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Another nice piece of work Aiden, I like Liverpool & have good memories of working at various venues across the City from the 80’s right up to the present day 😅
Thank you very much. It's a great city and I always get notice a 'feelgood' factor whenever I arrive there!
@@AidanEyewitness Aidan you need to drive in any direction 3 miles from the City centre and your 'feelgood' factor my change somewhat🤔🤔
And yes i was born and bred in Liverpool back in 1965 👍👍
Not with our metro mayor , likes of liverpool starts a Kirkby and ends at the city centre , verbal promises that never materialise , ie new station for Bramley Moore , going to be a nightmare around Regent st
I don't know if the Bramley Moore station is going to materialise. It's going to be a massive amount of people going to and from the stadium. Many thanks.
There won't be a new station for Bramley Moore- it'll be an upgraded mend and make do Sandhills Station.
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Very well done. I think your site suggestion for a Bramley Moore stadium station is spot on. I just get the impression from this video that Liverpool has big unrealized ambitions. It's quite a contrast to what is happening in London and nearby Manchester and it's a little depressing. The visualization at 5:29 is impressive. It reminds me of London's Wood Wharf which is very actively being realized. Speaking of Wood Wharf you feature in the video One Park Lane which is a curved building as is Wood Wharf's One Park Drive, though that's about all they have in common. I think Liverpool, with docks, historic architecture and riverside location, has the potential to be a world class city (again) and hopefully that will eventually happen.
That visualisation at 5:29 is by Peel Holdings for their Central Docks project but the area is still empty. I'll have to take a look at Wood Wharf in London. As for LIverpool, I think it is already a world class city due to its history and worldwide fame.
Love your videos! Interestingly enough, there is another development right by the Baltic Triangle area, right next to One Park Square, and the new train station, it's called Central Park, set to complete next year I believe. Keep up the great content!
Thanks for the fantastic feedback. Thanks also for flagging up Central Park, which is located to the rear of Baltic Square. The framework of a building has been put up. You’ve clarified things for me now so I am going to feature it in my upcoming video on the Baltic Triangle. Many many thanks!
@AidanEyewitness You're very welcome! & amazing, I can't wait to see it!
Is it worth investing in "the gateway project" ?
The straight answer is: I don’t know. I am not focused on these developments as investment opportunities and so can’t give any advice. Thanks for asking in any case. 😊
I watched that hospital being built, passing every day going to school, now its being demolished
With every day, more and more of it disappears.
Love these 😊
Many thanks for your positive feedback!
Hey, some further information for those curious:
Hemisphere will have two identical office buildings now & one residential block behind those two.
That derelict building you mentioned @2:40 recently had a planning permission to demolish & construct a 14 storey apartment block I think 2 weeks ago.
The new canning drydock proposal just got accepted today I believe!
Legacie are basically our lifeline here in Liverpool, they are mr reliable.
I'm pretty disappointed with the speed its taking to get the baltic train station started, it was supposed to be originally complete by 2025... There's multiple places to have the station around Bramley moore area yet I can't believe we don't have concrete plans for one, with the resi apartments & stadium being built, what are they waiting for? Good public transportation is very important (if not the most) for the growth of city areas.
Thanks for all the information, many thanks! I think you're right about Legacie. As far as the stations are concerned, over in Cheadle, Stockport, they've been planning to re-open the station near the village which was on the Stockport to Altrincham and Chester (Mid-Cheshire) line. It closed in 1917. The new station is just a single platform with a 'bus shelter' and a small car park and it's taken many years. Wikipedia says it's opening in 2025. We'll wait and see!
Additional entrances to the south of Sandhills station are being constructed being paid for by Everton FC. No extra platforms. Extra platforms can be built on the viaduct.
Any station needs a high throughput. For example, Wembley Park shifts 35,000 per hour. Sandhills will only scratch the surface of a full Bramley Moore Dock stadium. A stadium which will have poor transport provision.
@@johnburns4017 Thanks for the info. Sandhills is quite a bit further than my proposed station. Football fans are going to be using up a lot of boot leather!
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Having a new station near the stadium, which would be very near to Sandhills station, there would be four platforms spread over two stations. Maybe have Sandhills serving north and a new station serving south only on matchdays. Football only services from Sandhills to the north and a new stadium station serving only the south. Trains could line up at Kirkdale sidings nearby for the end of the game to shift fans out quickly.
Sandhills would still need extra platforms bolted to the sides of the viaduct (as they do in London) with an extra entrance to the south end of the station. But who will fund a new station on a viaduct and extra platforms at Sandhills? Money is not even forthcoming to build a station on the Bootle Branch for Liverpool FC.
I cannot see any changes made to Sandhills apart from the new southern entrances paid for by EFC. They may divert some buses to the stadium, that is about it.
In normal everyday use a new station nearer to Liverpool Waters _may_ be viable.
There have been _proposals_ to build a station between Moorfields and Sandhills but nothing concrete whatsoever. Maybe Rotheram is waiting for the HS2 money? 😄
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Many major cities have the need for new or reopened stations. Students have been crying out to reopen Sefton Park station in Liverpool for decades. This would eliminate a laborious bus trip.
Edge lane movie/ tv film is now almost up and running mate
Almost up and running? Do you know when it's going to open? Thanks.
@@AidanEyewitness apparently January 2025
It's great to see all these skyscrapers cropping up in the North West, we need more modern looking skylines in the UK (alongside London) but keeping the traditional buildings too, Frankfurt in Germany does this perfectly.
Frankfurt is an interesting example of high rise, the only city in Germany to do this, though Berlin is starting to have some tall buildings. I think tall skylines look great!
Been watching probably you and yer pics for dacades... Aidan.. Personal emotional attachment to Scouser Land...So hope the don't muck it up! ;/
Many thanks, nice to hear from you. I feel the same, though in some ways, Liverpool was messed up by the slum clearances of the 1960s in the Scotland Rd area, as well as road schemes, demolitions, flyovers. I think things are improving - slowly.
Ireland officially annexes Liverpool, which is an Irish town and Cornwall. These areas now officially form a part of Greater Ireland and are liberated.
I saw and met Uachtarán na h-Éireann President Michael D Higgins on his visit to Liverpool a few years ago. He claimed many famous Liverpool people with Irish backgrounds but didn’t make any territorial claim!
very informative!
Thanks very much for the feedback!
Love these 😊❤
Many thanks!
It would be ideal if Grosvenor / Peel Estates who own the waterfront ( I think ) would install the overhead railway once again ???? Excellent Podcast Aidan.
They can't even conserve the Dockers Clock properly so good luck with a new OHR.
This topic has often been mentioned, but I have a feeling that some kind of elevated railway will return to the waterfront, maybe when development is more advanced. Keep watching AidanEyewitness!
If they build a station for the Bramley Moore dock, its only 1/2 mile from Sandhills to where you propose a new station. It gains the railway nothing financially, for the one maybe two days in a week it would be used for, Merseyrail would have to staff it with the numbers of people using it, so its an extra build cost of £Millions for zero gain. It does worry me though the lack of thoughts about catering to the fans needs , its apparently glamorous to be a ``on the river`` location, They ignored the entire area is one big industrial estate. No shops No Pubs Nothing. A shiny new button on a dirty pair of overalls. When labour Mayor Joe Anderson was linked to some highly iffy contractor business dealings and the linked planning permissions. Lots of building projects were put on hold while investigations were carried out.
That's a fair point about Sandhills. It's only a short distance. But it wouldn't just be football fans using the station, there are going to be more and more residential projects in this area. The idea of placing the stadium in the former industrial, dockside area is that it will be a catalyst for the development of the whole area. In 10 years time it will be very different. Actually there is one pub in the area, opposite the stadium, it's the Bramley Moore! Thanks for that info, if projects were put on hold pending investigations, that could explain a few things. Many thanks for your comment with some very interesting points!
The proposed site is also in a residential area, whereas Sandhills is not.
One thing that always surprises me is the amount of derelict land in Liverpool.
The potential for development is unlimited, however it will probably take at least another fifty years of investment before we see any serious progress.
Liverpool Waters is now on track, and it is a thirty year programme of works.
We need at least another four or five developments of similar size to continue with our resurgence.
It will happen one day, but I fear I will not be around to see it.
@@pleasantville4529 The proposed site is NOT residential, is half a mile away on the same industrialised area. Just because its derelict, it doesn't mean is not privately owned. any potential for development needs the existing businesses on the river to pack up. A resurgence means increasing its past status. I dont think the old docks are coming back into use. What do you mean by more developments, more hotels? the further from the city centre, the less attractive the hotel. Joe Anderson had a warped dream of the Mersey becoming like the Thames, isn't it a pity he was not the right character to do it.
@@marksavage1108 If you take a look at 4:05, you can clearly see residential properties.
The derelict land which I mention, is not only in the North Docks area.
There are vast swathes of derelict land all over Liverpool, and also, there are not many businesses currently trading in the North Docks area, so any future development would not require dealings with businesses, but rather the land owners.
As for Anderson, he only wanted what was best for himself, and his cronies.
He must have some serious information about some very dangerous individuals, because he is still walking free.
@@pleasantville4529 I stand corrected, but then all the more reason for planning to be discarded as residents will block the plans. trains screeching to a stop over looking their houses invading privacy.
Medium density over a large area can yield as big a population as having megatowers concentrated in a few areas. If Liverpool sticks to its guns its strategy might just work.
It could be, I think you could be right.
Nice vid.
Many thanks!
This was the wonderful city where I was born 80 years ago what a monstrous carbuncle they have made of it no foresight just endless glass & brick all the buildings look the same swallowing up the most beautiful architecture of my childhood. Thankfully the people are still the same but dear oh dear I will never go back to witness the butchery of this once beautiful place I called my home shame on the people allowing this to happen
Don't despair, there is still a lot of the original architecture of Liverpool there. The area around Castle Street and the Pier Head, along Dale Street and down to Victoria Street, the Georgian District near the Anglican Cathedral, to mention just a few places. In the 50s, much of Liverpool was derelict, people lived in slums, there was poverty, pollution, crime. Liverpool is a fantastic city with a spirit and atmosphere all of its own. There's nowhere else like it. I love the waterfront along by the Albert Dock and the Pier Head. Please don't give up on Liverpool!
Seen and heard all this before..both under..Labour and Liberal councils...going all the way back to the 1960's..and The Grand Plan for Queen square and surrounds...what did we get.
A 2 way bus station route ...big deal..meanwhile the city at the other end of the ELR...goes from strength to strength..seems a new skyscraper goes up every month
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Totally agree , just wait and see what the Liverpool city council have planned for in and around the Strand area of the City
You think traffic is bad now
I know what you mean. Let's hope things will get better for Liverpool in the coming years.
Your right they have destroyed this once stunning city with their giant skyscraper buildings it’s getting like any city anywhere bloody gross & ugly not really a place for human beings maybe a place for uncaring mindless robots who neither care for the environment they have created or what they live in completely soul less
Very nice .
Hopefully its done without Joe Anderson brown envelopes
Joe Anderson has been off the scene since he was arrested in December 2020. He hasn't been charged with anything, the police investigation, I believe, is ongoing. But what has gone on behind closed doors is still an important question.
@@AidanEyewitness known Merseyside police. and there corruption. It will disappear.
Auld Joe was crafty he used cash so nothing can be found . his son David has probably hid it in property across UK ..
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Philistine Anderson with Rotheram's support by his inaction, were responsible for the stripping of the World Heritage status. UNESCO specifically mentioned the stadium. Prior to that, Anderson allowed the infilling of Wellington Dock, which held the magnificent tall sailing ships in 2008. The dock was next to Bramley Moore Dock also being in a World Heritage zone. Although Boris Johnson could have intervened, as the heritage stripping was an embarrassment to the UK as a whole. Like Rotherman, he also did sweet nothing, being complicit by inaction.
Anderson was pushing the new EFC owners to take the Bramley Moore Dock site for a new stadium while the ideal site for a stadium is the vacant Garston Gas works site which could accommodate two stadia. The transport provision is 100% even with a 6-platform parkway station nearby. So Everton get a small waterlocked stadium, too small for the club's support, with poor transport provision. You couldn't make this tripe up.
Great city, everything that Manchester is not.
I agree Liverpool is a great city, there's no other place quite like it.
I'm hoping to see some good development of the empty fields around the Park road and North hill street area. It's only a stone's throw away from the Baltic triangle but the land has been empty for years. There's a lot of empty land and the fields are a good size to build some ambitious projects, and it's always good to see some more investment in Liverpool 8.
Specifically Malta street and Devonport street are good places for development.
Hopefully development will continue, expanding to the south. Liverpool 8 has a lot of potential.
They've already changed it, knocked down all the old buildings and built student flats. It's an eye sore
Many thanks for your comment.
The old hospital has asbestos which is why demolition is so slow.
Ah yes, that figures. Many thanks for the info! 😊
I am a planner and l grant you planning permission right now
That's great to hear! I'll need to flesh out my design for the station building but hopefully it can all be completed very soon! :)
@@AidanEyewitness Back of an envelope and fifty quid will do it
Aidan I know the connection between batman and Liverpool
They both carn’t go anywhere without Robin
Ha ha, why didn't I think of that? :)
TWO SIDES to the mersey and more opportunity on Wirral river front .Left bank development potential Wirral Waters Sports City .It always if anything happening on birkenhead wirral its merseyside and if happens on other side its Liverpool.
Many thanks for your comment! I try to cover both sides of the Mersey
Loads of flats and no houses. Where a families with kids supposed to live?
These are in the centre, there are other developments further out, for instance on the old Garden Festival site. Some families live in flats, I did as a child.
@@AidanEyewitness yes and the center is spreading outwards. Show me where there are any houses getting built from aigburth, in the south, to Bootle in the north. These flats/ bedsits just aren't made for families. They are poorly built because of the materials and design . I've worked on them and I think we are just building future slums.b
the whole of liverpool is going to look like slough business centre.
Thanks for your comment!
@@AidanEyewitness thanks for your 20+ years of social and history capturing.
Flats built for the ones who can afford them
I think it's the same story everywhere. More social housing needs to be built.
It’s unfortunate that none of the changes include any architectural significance in terms of infrastructure as all the rail network systems like exchange station and the dock lifelines from Canada dock to the electrified rail network have all been filled in. This shows the intent of the Government to deny any development of logistics to move freight.
The isolation of the port access to enable passenger access is also a massive problem. These meaningless buildings all seem to be built in strategic positions to make sure this cannot be undone. Perhaps a look at the old maps of the turn of the century could show how it is supposed to work. Bootle now is the most neglected and deserted place in the country. After being bombed to bits during the war and totally left to rot. The only possible chance of a rebirth could be some national move to end the use of the docks as a processing graveyard as it now is for the storage of scrap metal and to build new state of the art rail and motorway access to the docks. As planned before the common market.
You appear to be very confused. Seven years ago a second container terminal accommodating the world's largest ships was built at Liverpool. There was a survey a few years back to get a fully separate line into Liverool docks. The old Bankfield goods station looks an ideal way in by uncovering the infilled approach cuttings and taking a line out to the WCML and east to Leeds via Preston. Only after Aintree station would the freight trains need to share track with Merseyrail. There is only one diesel line into the docks right now. Garston Docks has electric lines into the port. This may have been defence related as war clouds are forming. Liverpool is the only deep water port on that coast, and as in WW2, vital.
Amazingly, and naively, Liverpool's Seaforth container terminal when opened in 1972 never had any rail access. All was via truck, as most containers were taken direct to their end destinations. Liverpool's port trade is growing. Many new large logistical sheds have been built and a number planned. There is also a move to have containers for the North of England entering northern ports, not coming in from the south.
The rail tunnel from James St to Central, now used as a stock interchange, was reduced to one track as building works were built on a part of the tunnel. A deliberate ploy to curtail growth if it was to be used for passengers, which underpins your point.
It’s not me confused ????
Please look at the original layout of the rail system . The new deep water docks could have utilized all the existing footprint of the of the commercial road sub terrain sidings. As you must know the rail system ( electrified line) access via Canada dock is completely filled in. Alexandre dock has a solitary line via fazackerly which is not the main line required to go east then south via Runcorn. Containers dropped in Seaforth could easily have been shunted to the sidings and either shifted by rail or road.
You fail to observe that the unused docks from Seaforth to Liverpool have been hyjacked by a scrap metal processing and storage facility that could be sited elsewhere
Not to store and process there as this is only for tax avoidance and total disregard and bad use of the docks. If you come to Liverpool and take journey through the dock system you would be able to see this for yourself . 7 miles of former warehouse facility largely neglected and disused since World War Two. That was 1939 to 45 . Virtually 80 years of total neglect. That is there now for all to see. The new Liverpool two is still unused . The main ship the Atlantic conveyor still uses Gladstone dock not Liverpool 2 . Peel holdings had the idea of transferring freight from ship to barge via the ship canal transferring logistics. The shipping companies don’t want double handling and favor southern ports as a preference . This brings me on to the 1960,s plan m62 and 58 direct to docks.
Liverpool docks is the least preferred dock in the country by transport haulers because Peel holdings have made a total mess of their plans.
All these road alterations were abandoned when we joined the common market. Now we are left with unfinished motorways m57/58/62/53. To get back to the current buildings strategically built in places that prevent the docks and passenger cruise terminal being accessed.
These new buildings are directly bad decisions and don’t suit architectural definition for a port. At present we have another mindless and ill thought out proposal to build a new road through Seaforth to the M58 almost child like in its conception.
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You have not much of a clue. There has never been electrified lines into Liverpool's port, only into Garston. Read what I write. Liverpool2 is well used.
From Bramley Moore Dock northwards all those docks are well used. and becoming increasingly busier. New sheds have been built. Cargo handling has changed greatly in the past 50 years. Birkenhead Docks are used as are Garston and the Ship Canal from Eastham to Runcorn (a linear dock). There is virtually zero trade above Runcorn.
You are right that Peel have made a mess of it. Their idea of port Warrington and port Salford fell flat as only smallish ships with bulk cargoes would ever use that canal. Rail does it much better. It needs partially filling in from Runcorn upwards making a straight fast rail line and narrow-boat canal.
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Oh dear. Like I say do your study on how access to the main line link was achieved. What you have to understand is that Liverpool was a major port and the freight could move from commercial sidings wavertree allerton garston then all points south. Those lines got abandoned but could have become reactivated.
A government enquiry did not see fit to reactivate in favour of road haulage and the new request by the simple minded peel holdings idea of transferring freight up the ship canal. As a result of peel holdings stupid influence and resultant filling in of the rail network at Canada dock where by thousands of tonnes of hardcore was used to block the rail system where it connected. All you have to do is access the rail system as it was as late as the 1960’s. All filled in now of course. Also please get up to speed with the abandoned motorway network. As a reminder to you study the other tunnels abandoned and left to rot. Victoria Waterloo Wapping Edge hill Crown street etc. all of them abandoned and in need of maintenance . These cover many miles and are a major civil engineering problem that are not inspected regularly and could collapse like one did at Roscoe station in dingle. The ignorance of people who just don’t read or study is beyond belief. Also you say Liverpool 2 is used. For information the original Gladstone dock plays host to the largest container ship that uses the docks and was there before the installation of the large transfer cranes installed to transfer over to barges. These are not used anything like what was envisaged and stated on the business case and as far as beneficial use they are a complete failure. Do your study on the freight users report for Liverpool 2 as it a complete and utter failure so far. Garston by the way is not a deep water dock nor is it part of Liverpool docks but does have an electrified line. It was connected to Canada dock many years ago via the link thro wavertree but electrified progress never got installed obviously because the 3 mile link was decommissioned . My problem is that all these projects outlined as progress are in actual regression because they are proposed to be built blocking the re activation of these stations. As an interest when the Princess dock was a direct main line link and exchange station was the main station before lime street was conceived. Liverpool is in big trouble of being destroyed by ignorance.
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Liverpool had about 9 lines into the port which was reduced to one, the Bootle Branch (old Canada Docks Branch Line). The Canada Dock goods terminal closed in 1982 with the alignment protected until recently. The below road level yard was filled into to road level.
No electric line ever entered Liverpool's port.
Liverpool 2 is not a failure at all. Considering reduced trade after Covid is more than holding its own. It can handle just about the largest ships in the world. The in-river berth can be widened if the largest ships come, of which there is only a handful of them.
A survey to take into the port a _wholly separate_ line, was pointing to open up the cuttings and tunnels from the Liverpool-Southport line into Bankfield, next to Canada Dock goods as a second route into the port.
Seaforth container terminal uses riverlock gates that are the same size as the Panama Canal.
The people don't change don't matter what you spend in Liverpool. Most programmes like this aren't beneficial to the people.
Many thanks for your comment!
Sadly, between the cowboys and carpetbaggers half these developments will probably never happen.
You're making a valid point, though quite a few of them are heading for completion now. We'll see how things pan out.
All these comments about a train station near Bramley moore stadium, sandhills is 10minute walk ye lazy bastards 🤭🤭🤭
Well in Manchester, the Etihad stadium has a tram stop next to it and Old Trafford has its own station (well, a platform). I think we need a fleet of volocopter air taxis to ferry the fans from the city centre to the stadium in style! :)
Liverpool wont get anywhere near Manchester fo decades and decades, heard all this talk for the city before.
I think Liverpool can go its own way, I don't think it needs to copy Manchester. There are some good projects under way but we need more. Thanks for commenting.
Well Liverpool seems very lackluster and boring with their projects.
Manchester with its ever growing skilyline is on another level. An untamed beast.
Liverpool will get there eventually, I’m not sure I’d like to see huge student towers all over Liverpool, they’re building a nice city without them. And lots of skyscrapers are coming near Princess dock as Beetham have bought the site and promised several skyscrapers.
I visited the new Everton stadium very recently and it looks great. But, then drove to Anfield and onto Goodison Park. Jesus! What a 3rd world dump! The litter was everywhere. It was truly shocking. What a shame as there were a few decent areas.
Great vid again. Thanks 👍.
Thanks very much - rubbish on the streets is a problem all over urban areas in the UK. Everton Park has litter everywhere. It's a great shame, I can't understand why people can't dispose of it properly!
I don't think it's right to set Liverpool against Manchester - Manchester is unique in the whole of the UK for its current huge investment, but we had to wait decades for it. Liverpool can do it its own way but progress is too slow and investment is far less than it should be.
Manchester has identikit glass blocks. Not appealing overall IMHO. They do not replace good planning, and at times appeases developers who want to maximise a plot. Throwing up such random buildings is what third world countries do saying _we have made it._ A walk around the streets of these rapidly expanding cities says something else. What makes cities attractive is what is at street level.
Liverpool has a policy like London and Paris. Low rise but high in selected places. Such a policy can have density, and vibrancy, look at Paris. Incidentally, Liverpool city has a larger footprint than Paris.
Will it stop them from whining all the time?
Like you just did?
@@gustavbrinkel5489 That was whining? It was a question.
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are you German?
My background is Irish, I was born and grew up in NW England, but I have learned German to near native speaker standard and I teach it online (as well as English). I want to use my languages as much as possible and not keep my knowledge of German hidden.
Why can't we go back to the gothic for inspiration instead of these new monstrous building that look like cheep housing for the ongoing mass immigration to Liverpool
Gothic is not today's style and the craftsmanship is no longer there. There is an example of a modern building that's classically inspired and that's the Trafford Centre, but I know some people - including many architects - don't like it!
Answer above - I think TH-cam has duplicated the messages.
Ugly boxes with low level imagination from the Architects
Well, what you do if you were an architect? Sketch on the back of an envelope please!
the difference in development between Liverpool and Manchester appears to be increasing. Is it just me or Liverpool not only looks, but feels like a large town and not a proper City?
It’s just you, Liverpool doesn’t feel like a large town one bit, the city centre is one of the biggest in the UK outside of London.
In this video I have featured construction projects and we haven't seen anything of the city. Liverpool is definitely a city, with a city feel and a unique atomosphere you won't find anywhere else. And yes, it has a large city centre.
What a ridiculous thing to say. Liverpool is one of the great UK cities. And if the criteria for a city is a cathedral, then we have TWO.
No it's just you troll
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The city centre is getting bigger extending in the north to Bramley Moore Dock, having expanded south to the Baltic.
It is debatable if the Knowledge Quarter is in the city centre, but that has moved eastwards. An underground metro station was planned in the 70s for this district using the miles of unused tunnel under the city. Then came the Tories. The north and south extremes of the centre will have stations, the east needs one after 45 years of waiting.
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
Many thanks!
And thanks again!
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
I think you clicked 'send' three times!
And thrice thanks!
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
Thanks, I am a big fan of the city of Liverpool.