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Would you be in favour of yet another Housing Estate, then david?

@@mikeoglen6848 Not necessarily, even if houses are needed desperately by those not yet on the property ladder or being squeezed by rent. My comment relates only to the fact that the development was probably only passed because the LCC prioritised saving the appearance of the buildings, above all else. But that made for a narrow choice on outcomes. This is not an exclusive problem for LCC, as protection is placed so highly around the country, not just Liverpool. The likelihood of part of the buildings being unsafe I'd have reckoned was extremely high and I suspect the thoroughness of any engineering surveys was not there. If they had been, then the options for what to do with the site would probably have been much wider and deeper and the site would probably have been developed much sooner as a result. If LCC had a bit more imagination and real get-up-and-go, they should have been considering courting large companies to have regional headquarters there or a futuristic business park centred on University Research offshoot genesis developments, e.g. in Life Sciences and so on, which are the future businesses likely to generate really good-quality, higher productivity permanent jobs, keeping the best and brightest in and around Liverpool, looking to self-generate Liverpool from the core. Acorns grow into Oak Trees. There is undoubted demand for Visual Arts (e.g. droners' footage!) but the future methodology of provision of those is somewhat unpredictable and to be fair to LCC and the developers no one can know the future. It's not a bad choice but still probably excludes more 'productive' choices from the get-go as a result poor surveys of the site, wider research about markets and priorities and marketing of Liverpool itself.

LITTLE WOODS IN AINTREE WAS THE OLD PARADOX THAT ALSO FELL INTO DIS REPAIR ALSO A ICONIC BUILDING AS WELL

IT WAS SET ON FIRE

But Ai is just not the same as the real thing, it's a bit like saying that listening to music via streaming is as good as buying records & CDs!!

@NOWThatsRichy I agree but film making is a for profit business. And every major studio has stopped investment in sound stages. The famous houses in Hollywood seen in many tv shows and movies, have all just been torn down and they are not being replaced. As they can artificially be reproduced. A I will get better and better and more realistic. A I newsreaders are already being used and you cannot tell the difference. The investment in edge lane will never be returned and the space will not be used as its not needed anymore.

@NOWThatsRichy Also shopping on main Street is better than ordering online, yet main Street is dying as are shopping centers. And artificial intelligence is about to change everything and cause massive unemployment and social strife. The warnings are all around.

I hope you are ashamed of yourself, you Robbing Sarstedt!

It's a Grade 2 listed building, so has to be saved, unless its too dangerous to preserve