What Kind of Liverpool Welcome?

The City of Liverpool aims to reverse long-standing population decline and in recent years this has begun to succeed.

For the city to thrive, we need young(ish) economically active (even middle class!) people to migrate here and to bring up young familes.

If such people are prepared to migrate into formerly depressed inner-city areas, to invest in home ownership, to bond with neighbours and to take an optimistic view of the future for their streets and neighbourhood then that is exactly what we need.

One depressing aspect of the Welsh Streets controversy has been the attempt to discredit or even disenfranchise such people because "they have only been here for five minutes".

Unless the City Council and its partners show some insight into how they have allowed such people to be treated then there is no guarantee it could not happen again.

And within the HMRI area there is a new risk to potential homebuyers: do I live near to an area containing mainly socal housing which the social landlord (housing assocation) might at some time decide it wants to demolish - and my house needs to be cleared for land assembly?