Letter to Daily Telegraph on Edge Lane CPO Battle

On Sunday Evening Cllr Steve Radford delivered a set of the injunction papers to the home of Lib Dem Leader Cllr Warrenn Bradley on behalf of all the residents fighting to live in their homes

Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel Williams and Chris Lenton
Liberal Party Group
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
L13 7EG

0151 259 5935

07920090322

Letter for Publication

Dear Editor

May we start by thanking the Daily Telegraph Team for its excellent coverage of the heroic stand by Elizabeth Pascoe resisting the demolition of her home and fighting right up to the High Court

We had hoped that, following her victory, Liverpool City Council would accept the legal ruling and  at long last progress a scheme of extending the M62 /Edge Lane corridor without the needless demolition of hundreds of homes and businesses either side of the route

Instead the council officialdom ran out a press release stating they were to start demolition of 246 homes regardless.

Once again Mrs. Pascoe had to rush to the courts and issue an injunction to prevent this

Many readers and residents of Liverpool may not realise that the council's housing strategy is built upon the presumption that they seek to demolish over 12,0000 terraced homes they consider "surplus"

It is not about these houses being structurally unsound . it is about social engineering on a grand scale. Their solution to poverty is to demolish the homes of the poor

At today's prices the council intends to demolish 500 homes in the Welsh streets of Toxteth for the sum of £33million . What the cost of demolishing 12,000 homes over 15 years does not bear thinking about

What a phenomenal abuse and waste of tax payers money !

We publicly challenge the LIberal Democrats, how they have the cheek to describe themselves as liberals with this policy of mass demolition forcing people out of their homes

The Liberal Party constitution commits us to a society where every citizen posses property, liberty and security. The right to live in one's home seems pretty essential to those beliefs

Under our  Lib Dem / Labour Demolition Coalition in Liverpool, people  can't live in their terraced homes without fear of Compulsory Purchase and their community blighted by the deliberate empting of public sector homes

Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel Williams and Chris Lenton
Liberal Party Group
Liverpool City Council