Just months after it was announced that
Chanel 4 would not be locating its news service to Liverpool. The
Littlewoods building touted as being a new digital media centre for
the film industry in Liverpool is torched.
What an advert for Liverpool.
We have been warning of this for years.
The developers say they were about to
create The Dream factory. Only now its a nightmare.
At the time there were angry and nasty
comments from councillors towards Chanel 4, including vile comments
from the Mayor.
Now Littlewoods goes up in flames. Its
a disgrace. This was a fine Art Deco structure that was in good
condition that just needed a bit of care with a sympathetic scheme.
The whole area was crying out for this to happen.
The Luftwaffe missed it, well they may
have got a bit of it.
But now its been torched. Police have
confirmed it.
Now its in a worse condition than if
Goering had of got it.
Questions need to be asked as to why
there is a frequent event of buildings going up in flames in
Liverpool......just as they are about to be redeveloped.
Wolthamstone square is a recent one
that springs to mind.
Part of that caught light by
combustion, on its own, allegedly without any help.
Oh yes tell us another one. Just like
the other one.
Owned by one of Joe Anderson's mates
Eliot, it allegedly caught fire in the middle of the night. Its now
set to become, guess what, Student Flats.
We have worked long and hard to bring
this structure The Littlewoods Building the old Pools Headquarters to
the attention of the public, not just locally but nationally. And now
the whole country knows about it. For all the wrong reasons.
The owner or a representative from
Capital and Centric was on BBC lunchtime news saying the scheme will
go ahead.
Only now the job will be easier.
Joe Anderson crying his crocodile tears
saying he is heartbroken will now say we need to get it up and
running and redeveloped.
And it will now be an easier, and a
cheaper job to carry out
And will it have a big ugly carbuncle
stuck on the top of it?
Replacing the lack of a torched roof
that isn't there anymore?
That's where the cash is, in building
upwards just like Lawrence Kenwright another mate of Joe Anderson
did, on The Shankly Hotel, in the town centre.
Because that's what Liverpool does,
creates eyesores where there was beauty.
They have already developed part of the
Littlewoods site called The Bunker.
Yes we all need tin hats on in this
area. Its like a war zone now.
Incidentally we wrote about The real
Bunker on the Littlewoods Site that had period murals on the walls, a
piece of Liverpool history from the blitz a real bunker.
What happened to that? No one seems to
care.
The police will need to investigate how
a fire started in an empty building and then spread like wildfire of
a Sunday when Joe Andersons Fire Brigade cutbacks that he blames the
Tories for is at its most acute.
He blamed cutbacks for losing the car
park next to the Oldham Echo Arena.
So why was the fire not brought under
control more quickly.
The fire brigade say they responded
quickly. Well not quick enough.
How many appliances were on the site
within 5 minutes?
Six appliances were not enough.
Will there be any evidence?? The fire
brigade say it was arson.
One of the by passers says he heard an
explosion.
There will be no recriminations by the
council they will just accept it and move on like they did when the
boathouse in Sefton Park was torched and they built a modern building
in its place.
Easier than restoring a new one.
Then we will wait for the next historic
building that goes on fire or is accidentally knocked down by a
bulldozer.
Couldn't the developers even spent the
minimum wage to employ a cocky watchman.
Or did they, and where was he?
How did an arsonist get in the
building?
This building should be taken off the
current developers.
CPO'd like what happened to the rest of
Edge Lane.
No, the council will probably give them
a grant.
Only in Liverpool could this happen.
The Shankly Hotel
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