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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Printed in Liverpool Echo Letters Page IN a response to my colleague Griff Parry the city council intend to spend another £17m to purchase and CPO the 134 houses outside their control in Edge Lane.
Can anyone believe this is value for money? £17m to create a building plot at tax payers expense. Where does the money go?
The demolition and destruction is great for the profits of builders but does little for the people.
Cllr Steve Radford, author: Steve | 02/27/07 16:33 | comments More Alleygating Sites go forward for consultation: At this very moment the city councils alleygating team is seeking residents views as to alleygating passageways at Preston Grove to Denton Grove Denton Grove to Thurnham Street Rossett Street to Scorton Street Rockhouse to Rossett Street Westcombe Road into Rector Road Passageway adjoining 128 Moscow Drive Empress Road onto Lampeter Road Marlborough Road onto Pierhead Estate - Windsor Road If you have a point of view drop us a line or write to Mike Cassidy at the Highways Department. This list is not exhaustive but would give us greater ability to reduce crime. This year alone house breakins dropped by 22%. The alleygating projects and extra police overtime all play a critical part. author: Steve | 02/27/07 03:57 | comments Tuebrook Council Houses to be renovated City Housing Officials have confirmed that several vacant council houses will be improved for reletting, these include 8 Browning Road, 40 Ivy Leigh and 59 Townsend Lane The Liberal Party have been lobbying for the council to carry out an audit and either action improvements or sales to the private sector of long term vacants. Leaving lots of vacants to depress the area is not an option we will tolerate. author: Steve | 02/27/07 03:46 | comments Riverside Housing Association MD has agreed to Tuebrook and Stoneycroft visit on Tuesday 13th March. Over the last 8 months Liberal Party Councillors have been highly critical of Riverside Housing for having high levels of long term vacants in the area and failing to sell surplus properties, so much we had sent a protest letters to both the Chair and MD of the Riverside Group. In response the MD has agreed to visit the area with Tuebrook's Liberal Councillors on Tueday 13th March author: Steve | 02/27/07 03:24 | comments The Youth Sub Committee for Tuebrook, Anfield, Old Swan and West Derby will be visiting Tuebrook Methodist Church on Thursday 1st March at 17.00 to discuss ways to improve youth service provision in the area. The meeting is chaired by Cllr Steve Radford, all interested parties are welcome
author: Steve | 02/27/07 03:20 | comments Thursday, February 22, 2007 A viable site for a viable stadium Cllr Steve Radford 0151 2595935 - 07920090322 Mike Butler 07932969349 Dear Editor We were pleased that the centre fold spread in recent press coverage of the Anfield Stadium issue (Liverpool Echo) raised the critical question the city has failed to grasp to date Is the growth in the stadium from 45,000 to 60,000 sufficient to economically justify the capital expenditure required ? It has always been our view that if LFC was to take the significant outlay that a mere 33% growth in capacity was in many ways inadequate to fund the outlay Without doubt Liverpool needs an international size stadium for a multitude of events - not just football. Therefore the Council and LFC would best meet long term requirements and financial viability if they looked for a site, outside of the densely populated area of Anfield ,and build on a key site with major transport network access , both motorway and rail links. This could accommodate the size of ground attendance to make the investment profitable We hope the new owners will take a fresh look and they may come to the conclusion a East Lancs road site or Speke site would be better options all round Cllr Steve Radford Mike Butler author: Steve | 02/22/07 01:25 | comments Grandmother continues fight to save her home
author: Steve | 02/22/07 00:27 | comments Wednesday, February 21, 2007 School and homes get the go-ahead article by Nick Colligan and printed in Liverpool Echo
author: Steve | 02/21/07 11:41 | comments Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Cllr Steve Radford 0151 259 5935 Dear Editor Having read recent council press releases readers may have got the impression that Mrs. Pascoe was running a one woman campaign responsible for causing excess delay and expense for the Edge Lane project Nothing could be further from the truth ! It was the council's error to insist that the issue of upgrading Edge Lane was to be linked to the demolition of hundreds of homes either side of the roadway, but not in the path of the roadway itself. Mrs. Pascoe is not alone, there are still in excess of 140 residents and businesses who have not rolled over for the council's bulldozers. It has been estimated that the council is budgeting for £17m to buy out or CPO properties in the Edge Lane Area which they have not already bought. Only last week Mrs. Pascoe and myself pleaded for the council's Regeneration committee to seek a compromise and enable the roadway to be progressed for 2008 and the homes of people like Mrs. Pascoe to retained. The council ,in its obstinacy ,refused knowing that Edge Lane would remain an eyesore throughout the city of culture year as a consequence of their refusal We totally support the sentiment of the recent Daily Post Editorial (tuesday 20th) and again ask the council to compromise ,even at this late stage Your Sincerely Cllr Steve Radford
author: Steve | 02/20/07 23:45 | comments Friday, February 16, 2007 Cllr Steve Radford 0151 259 5935 Letter for Publication Dear Editor If readers are 16 or over and haven't yet got a ten-year adult passport, then they should apply for one BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF APRIL 2007. From 26th March this year, the Identity and Passport Service opens some new offices as part of the build up to the ID card scheme that the government wants to introduce. (including my own City of Liverpool) By the end of the year there will be 69 of these interrogation centres, and people applying for their first adult passport from April 2007 will be guinea-pigs for a process the government is calling "Authentication by Interview". All the information collected during these interviews will be kept on file for ever. If you care about your freedoms, and object to having government officials poking around in your private life - or your friends' and family's - then please apply for your first adult passport BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF APRIL 2007 After the initial launch this government intends to demand people attend and oblige employers release employees to attend interrogation centres Every opposition party is pledged to abolish this ID card scheme. Help us beat Big Brother So apply now and beat their interrogation which includes finger printing us all like criminals. To find out more please visit No2ID.org.uk Cllr Steve Radford author: Steve | 02/16/07 04:07 | comments Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel Williams and Chris Lenton Liberal Party Councillors for Tuebrook and Stoneycroft 41 Sutton Street , Tuebrook, Liverpool L13 7EG 0151 259 5935 Dear Editor, May we welcome several recent initiatives by the city council which we believe will help combat long term vacant properties. The need to increase the staffing levels supporting the vacants initiative has been long overdue. The case for taxing all vacants from day one can also assist. We are puzzled why the Labour Leader has opposed this budget proposal ? The council itself is a major source of vacants and we urge the council, prior to the stock transfer, to carry out a rigorous audit of all its own vacants, either put them up for sale or renovate them. Lastly the greatest source of rampant dereliction across the city is the Pathfinder project which has ghettoized districts such as Anfield, Edge Hill, Picton and Toxteth with needless boarded up houses. The council should take a lead from other cities and spend more money renovating rather than boarding up homes. Even the council advisors admitted that only 1 in 7 of the homes they intend to demolish are structurally unsound. If Labour and Lib Dems want to reverse the errosive impact of dereliction upon so many communities ,we invite them to change the direction of the cities Pathfinder Project from demolition to renovation Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel Williams, Chris Lenton Liberal Party Group author: Steve | 02/14/07 02:21 | comments Hit squad’s war on empty homes
author: Steve | 02/14/07 01:19 | comments Adoption choice - Printed in Daily Post
I FEEL I must reply to the two letters responding to me on Tuesday, February 6. Mr Hunt, of Prescot, paints the picture that the choice is between a heterosexual couple or homosexual couple being the adoptive parents. The reality is society does not have enough people, single or couples, straight or gay, who are suitable to be adoptive parents. We in the Liberal Party led the battles for Catholic emancipation and the right of Catholics and others to open schools, as we do believe in the need to respect conscience, diversity and equality in society. May I state the Liberal Party does not operate a discriminatory policy in selecting candidates by gender or anything else. Mr Egan, of Wallasey, asks for Catholics to run their own organisations within their own beliefs. I have much sympathy to this view; however, they should not expect public funding if they wish to opt out of public policy. There is a world of difference to the case of individual Catholics and other Christians opting out of carrying out abortions in the NHS. It is a right of conscience I would adamantly defend. I have every confidence there will be individual Catholics and other Christians who would prefer to have children cared for, say with an established lesbian couple, than have the children left in institutional care. Cllr Steve Radford, Leader of The Liberal Party author: Steve | 02/14/07 01:08 | comments Friday, February 09, 2007 Cllr Steve Radford Leader Liberal Party Group 41Sutton Street, Tuebrook Liverpool L13 7EG 0151 259 5935 / 07920090322 Dear Editor, At the Regeneration Scrutiny Committee (Thursday 8th Feb) we made a clear appeal for the council to look at the alternative proposals by the Edge Lane Objectors and try to seek some compromise that would enable the Edge Lane extension work to be undertaken in time for 2008. Without the needless demolition of hundreds of homes either side Edge Lane , the roadway could be extended and enhanced This would avoid protracted legal battles ,so meeting the 2008 target would be viable This was rejected by the ruling Lib Dem Group, took who arrogantly objectors were in the minority and should "just give up". To have councillors denounce the right of people to remain in their own homes, as if that right should be subject to some sort of popularity poll, was quite appalling, it was the attitude we should have expected of town hall socialists, but not of any liberal creed As a consequence the city can expect no meaningful progress until 2009 . Visitors to our "capital of culture" can now marvel at the "capital of mass dereliction" . What an advert for Town Hall intransigence Edge Lanes boarded homes will be.for the world to see Cllr Steve Radford Leader of the Liberal Party Group author: Steve | 02/09/07 05:35 | comments Thursday, February 08, 2007
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author: Steve | 02/08/07 05:40 | comments Cllr Steve Radford Leader Liberal Party Group 41 Sutton Street, Tuebrook Liverpool L13 7EG 0151 259 5935 / 07920090322 Dear Editor. I feel I must reply to the two letters responding to me on Tuesday 6th February. Mr. Hunt of Prescot paints the picture that the choice is between a heterosexual couple or homosexual couple being the adoptive parents. The reality is that society does not have enough people, single or couples, straight or gay who are suitable to be adoptive parents. If the prejudice of the Roman Catholic church was applied it would result in more children being without adoptive parents. We in The Liberal Party led the battles for Catholic Emancipation and right of catholics and others to open schools, as we do believe in the need to respect conscience, diversity and equality in society. May I state to Mr. Hunt, The Liberal Party does not operate a discrimatory policy in selecting candidates by gender or anything else We expect each Liberal Party branch to select the best candidate available. Mr. Egan of Wallasey asks for catholics to run their own organisations within their own beliefs. I have much sympathy to this view , however they should not expect public funding if they wish to opt out of public policy. If Roman Catholic Adoption agencies had a policy of discriminating against Protestants, Jews or secular parents, being adoptive parents, in accordance to traditional catholic prejudices, no doubt there would be uproar May I reiterate adoption should not be viewed as a service, the only thing that should matter is what is the best interests of the child. Lastly there is a world of difference to the case of individual Catholics and others Christians ,rightly opting out of carrying out abortions in the NHS. A right of conscience I would adamantly defend. The right of an institution to follow a policy of prejudice preventing the adoption of young with suitable parents is an entirely different matter ,is not a matter of personal conscience but a policy I have every confidence there will be individual catholics and other christians who would prefer to have children cared for, say with an established lesbian couple ,than have the children left in institutional care with all the proven problems that entails I do hope if people disagree with my views they would at least have the decency not to seek to misrepresent them to further their own prejudices
Leader of The Liberal Party Group
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