Property News · September 10, 2017

Feat of clay: regeneration project bringing Liverpool street to life


Granby Street in Liverpool is a great collaboration between Assemble and the locals. By John-Michael O’SullivanIn old pictures, Liverpool’s Granby Street is a bustling thoroughfare packed with shops – takeaways and launderettes, hairdressers and tailors, florists and supermarkets – all serving the lively, diverse, tightly packed community in the neat grid of Victorian streets that surrounded it.But decades of alternating clearances and government neglect have left those streets full of holes. Sections of sturdy brick terracing remain, separated by modern low-rises and patches of fenced-off ground. At its southern end, though, after decades of stubborn local activism, Granby Street is beginning to blossom again. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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