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Re: Birkenhead
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30th Apr 2019 1:01pm
30th Apr 2019 1:01pm
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granny
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It's been going on for years, and deliberately managed IMO. Hoping for better things like investors to come and do it all for them. Well it didn't happen. We heard so many might be, could be , will be, speals over the years and all pie in the sky. So many architectural plans, consultations and mountains of money poured down the ever guzzling drains.
First to go were the little electric buses from the centre to the ferry. The council had it in their grasp . A ferry from Liverpool to Birkenhead, could have bought in masses of revenue if the place had been kept in good order, which it wasn;t . How much was spent on Birkenhead park ? If people visit they want to visit a nice place which is appealing and a nice experience. Sadly all the money thrown at Birkenhead was never going to do that because people sitting in places of decision making were not qualified enough to make them. So much waste . It was always the case that EU funding for tourism would dry up but council did not use their abilities to promote or sustain what could have been a busy and production town... and clean and inviting.
So now they want to develop Hoylake and take the problem away from Birkenhead. I wonder if the natterjack toads will be affected at Hoylake. One of very few sites in the UK. They probably will be, but what does that matter against a council hungry for recognition .
I hope to goodness this lot get voted out on Thursday, they've been at the helm for far too long and we need fresh blood and ideas.
I get really angry about it all.
Last edited by granny; 30th Apr 2019 1:06pm.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Birkenhead
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30th Apr 2019 5:55pm
30th Apr 2019 5:55pm
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diggingdeeper

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I don't think much of Birkenhead's problems have be caused by the local council, it was the imposition by central Government that Birkenhead and Wallasey lost their independence, getting dragged out of Cheshire and put under the control of our rival Liverpool in the guise of a Metropolitan County.
Wirral's transport system prior to this was brilliant, our transport hub at Woodside worked really well. This was one of the first targets to be destroyed as part of a managed decline.
Wirral gets that which is left over, one of the best tall ships events was the first one which ended up primarily at Birkenhead docks because Liverpool didn't have docks big enough at the time.
Our docks have also been in managed destruction, other ports in the country are making the most of the waterside availability, we have had much of our docks filled in and there is now only one entrance which makes it a commercial risk - did that decision make any sense whatsoever?
The commercialisation and sell-off of the Merseyside Docks and Harbour board should never have been allowed but Liverpool and the Government knew the long term implication of this, more managed decline.
We should have been allowed to continue to compete with Liverpool on an open market basis, instead we have been made underlings.
One significant indication of how the Wirral has been purposely hampered is why there was never a station built by Woodchurch, its an obvious central point with space for parking ride etc.
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