Museum of Liverpool-Its Just One Cock Up After Another.

MANCHESTER architect AEW is facing a £1.1m bill after being successfully sued by the Museum of Liverpool.




The museum's board took the firm to the High Court earlier in the year over design flaws at the new museum on the city's waterfront.



The claim centred around problems with steps and an amphitheatre-style seating area at entrances on either side of the building. There were also faults with the suspended ceilings, one of which collapsed.



During construction AEW and its contractors struggled to make the steps flow seamlessly into the seating area, a feature of the original designs, and contrived a concrete plinth to cover the discrepancy. When this was seen by the museum's director Sharon Granville it was described as "an abomination".



A judgement issued by Mr Justice Akenhead recognised that one of the contractors, a joint venture between Galliford Try and Danish builder Pihl, was also partially responsible. It has been ordered to pay £205,000 of the total £1.1m bill. A separate judgement relating to the work on the ceilings is expected in several weeks.



In his summary the judge said: "The truth is that AEW knew and must have known by the October or November 2009 period that there had been a serious mistake and that it was simply not possible to achieve the practical and aesthetic effect required by the client and indeed by the planning permission which had been obtained.



"It is simply extraordinary that competent architects could consider that it was acceptable to adopt the plinth solution in any event given their client’s aspirations and wishes and, even worse, without seeking the informed approval of its client."



Sharon Granville, executive director of the Museum of Liverpool, said: "The court has found in favour of National Museums Liverpool on all counts. We are very pleased with the outcome.



"This financial award for the external works means that we will now be able to rectify the long-standing issues with the external steps and terraces at the museum and make them accessible to the public as soon as possible. We are grateful for Mr Justice Akenhead's decision and await the financial award for the ceilings inside the museum in a few weeks time."



AEW's managing director Steve Burns said: "We are disappointed with the outcome of the case. The matter is being dealt with by our insurers and does not affect the ongoing health of the business, but we take criticism seriously.



"We pride ourselves on outstanding levels of service, a fact borne out by over 95% of our business being for repeat clients. The management structure of the company has completely changed since the events of 2009 and we have moved in a different direction since then."



Construction started in 2007 and the museum opened in 2011. The museum originally sought damages of £

Tesco Opens a Store In Liverpool's World Heritage Site.

 They promised us a "landmark building coming soon" and then they passed plans for a Travelodge in the World Heritage Site.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/01/travelodge-for-liverpools-world.html Then to make the matter worse in the Travelodge, is going to be a Tesco...........Every Little Hurts, but this is killing me.

You have to question the mentality of those who oversee planning blight in Liverpool. Lets show the world how you look after a world heritage site, and then you trash it.

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/01/tesco-tear-aways.html Tesco tear-aways will we see the mumbies who fought to stop Tesco opening ion their beloved Hope Street. No We think not.

In December 2009 a big fuss occurred In a planning inspector ruled in favour of the city council, which had rejected Tesco’s scheme for a 27,000 sq ft superstore and indoor and outdoor markets after a major public outcry. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/01/15/liverpool-city-council-accuses-tesco-of-damaging-regeneration-of-city-92534-25606102/

Tesco-pool the new name for Liverpool? 
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/08/tesco-pool-invasion-of-business.html Unless someone at the council decides to shop at another supermarket that is.
World Heritage S#ite.

Legal row hangs over Liverpool museum launch-Building Design Magazine.

Second architect prepares for museum client’s court action. I have printed some of the article courtesy of BD mag as it is subscription.

A fresh legal row involving the architects behind the £72 million Museum of Liverpool project is threatening to overshadow its opening in four weeks’ time.
National Museums Liverpool (NML) is poised to launch legal action against the firm it drafted in to complete the project, Manchester practice AEW, after last month beginning proceedings against original architect 3XN, which it kicked off the job in 2007.
Although a spokesman for the museum stressed “it has not issued legal proceedings” against AEW, BD understands the practice is preparing to defend itself in court.
This follows a row last year between the two parties that saw AEW successfully recoup £500,000 in unpaid fees.
AEW declined to comment, but both disputes are thought to centre on how much the museum claims it is allegedly owed because of delays to the project, which bosses originally hoped would be partly finished in time for the city’s stint as European Capital of Culture back in 2008.
The scheme has since missed a series of deadlines and will be only three-quarters complete when it opens on July 19. A second phase will open by November.
Broadcaster Gillian Reynolds, who was on the board of the museum’s trustees for seven years until her resignation over a separate issue in 2008, said she was “not surprised” by the legal rumpus and said NML was partly to blame for the scheme running late.
It also emerged this week that 3XN had issued a counterclaim in its dispute with NML.
Principal Kim Nielsen admitted the spat centred on how much each allegedly owed each other. He said the case had not reached the courts yet and added: “I expect it will be sorted out amicably.”

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/legal-row-hangs-over-liverpool-museum-launch/5020002.article

Last week a ceiling collapsed at the new museum, one month before opening and a worker was taken to hospital. It is never going to be ready.

 How does Fuzzy Felt Flemming keep getting away with wasting millions for Fleminigs Folly.
Why does someone at the audit commission or at the DCMS look into his wasteful approach to building his Grand Design.
If a normal person went ahead like this they would be bankrupt. It started off as £21 million and is to cost well how long is a piece of string really its at £80 million now and rising.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/12/national-conservation-centre-closes.html 
pic Rome MAXXI well they look the same dont they




BD keeps sniffing out the news on behalf of Liverpool's tax paying public, who are funding this mess, they have obviously spoke to the builders.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/museum-of-liverpool-sues-3xn-architects.html
Another Architect with legal action.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-want-all-young-black-men-to-feel-shit.html

George Osbourne Budget-The Con Dems To Relax Liverpools Planning Laws!!!!

I find it hard to believe that Liverpool's planning laws could be relaxed anymore than they are already.
Now Osborne says he will relax planning laws in the Budget. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/budget-2011
The Liverpool Planning Manager Nigel Lee, who has done more damage to Liverpool's Architectural prowess than Hermann Goering and the Luftwaffe during the blitz, has had three primary functions for over a decade.


To accept a planning application to process a planning application and rubber stamp a planning application. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/02/liverpools-dodgy-planners-and-beetham.html
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/10/6-sir-thomas-street-every-right-to-feel.html

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/03/david-irving-as-chairman-of-liverpools.html
While the English Heretics stand by and watch. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/search/label/Henry%20Owen-John What future.

TO MAKE IT WORSE.
The journalists at the Daily Ghost say the Pier Head has won award.
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2011/03/21/liverpool-s-pier-head-and-canal-link-scheme-among-the-winners-at-civic-trust-architecture-awards-92534-28371777/
LIVERPOOL’S revamped Pier Head and canal link scooped its 17th award in just two years.


They were among city projects dominating a prestigious architecture contest last week.

The £28m project to create a new canal link and transform the Pier Head picked up one of 24 commendation awards at the Civic Trust Awards, in Manchester.
Judges said: “The works represent best practice in accommodating growth and investment in a dynamic, living World Heritage Site city.”
Projects by Liverpool’s universities also played a starring role.
The University of Liverpool’s heating infrastructure project, designed by architects Levitt Bernstein Associates, picked up one of 27 awards.
The contemporary energy centre, which sits in a group of 19th-century listed buildings in Dover Street, was praised for “reflecting the past in a modern solution”.
Judges described it as “a brave, imaginative brief [which] has created a unique and modern design with architectural qualities commensurate with its neighbours”. Council planners worked closely with the architects to refine the design.

Liverpool Hope University’s Angel Field, in Everton, and John Moores University’s art and design academy were also praised.
Cllr Malcolm Kennedy, Liverpool council’s cabinet member for regeneration, said: “Our four award winners are all fantastic examples of how good design and planning can help deliver world-class, contemporary projects, which breathe new life into our city while complementing our existing architecture.”
Council regeneration director Nick Kavanagh added: “Liverpool’s overall success at the Civic Trust Awards shows we continue to be a leading city of architectural excellence.”



http://www.civictrustawards.org.uk/winners/2011/CTA006633/

Information about this winner. There is a slideshow on the link.


The works are to be applauded for their extent and quality which further enhance the setting including the grade I listed Liver Building, and grade II* Cunard and Port of Liverpool Buildings. The scheme provides a flexible, usable public space that responds well and is enjoyed by many. The City Council and its partners have delivered a programme of major investment over some 10 years to regenerate the city and the works represent best practice in accommodating growth and investment in a dynamic, living World Heritage Site city.

REALLY THERE IS NO FUTURE WHEN PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND TO OUR ARCHITECTURAL LEGACY ARE APPLAUDING THE DECIMATION OF A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE.

While Manchester Docks was destroyed.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/11/loyd-grossman-lectures-us-on-heritage.html

Mann Island Developers Illegally Use The UNESCO Logo.

Mann Island Developers really do take the biscuit here. They destroy the world heritage site, turning it into blight and then make out as if it is all supported by Unesco. It is illegal to use a logo of a United Nations organisation without permission. This tacky advert with the WHS ringed, only serving to show how much they have got away with was in the Sunday Times last week. I have today written to Unesco complaining of the fact that the development "appears" to be supported by them. If anyone wants to join in writing to Unesco, please feel free.

Francesco Bandarin
Director
UNESCO
Paris
7.12.10

Dear Sir,
This is a picture of an advert that has appeared in the Sunday Times advertising the Mann Island world heritage site.
Would you please advise me, on the the use of the Unesco logo.
1. Are the developers entitled to use the Unesco logo to make it appear that Unesco sanction the development.

Wayne Colquhoun
LPT
copy to Mechtild Rossler

Sharon Granville, of Liverpool Museums,Is Sent Out Again To Front Flemings Folly.

What does it take to work for Liverpool Museums? I know some of the most hardworking and respectable scholars in the country that work there.......and then there are those who are blind, who just run round sorting out Flemings cock-ups. Sharon Granville is one of those. She writes in to the Daily Ghost defending the abysmal level of cock ups, this time saying.

Museum story


REGARDING your article on Tuesday, August 24, concerning the new Museum of Liverpool, I would like to clarify some points: the building contract with the main contractor (PGT) is intact.
There is no issue of an expiry date or any need for renewal. All building contracts provide for a 12-month snagging period post-completion. The fact that a reduced PGT team is currently on site is completely unremarkable.
There is no question over the museum ownership: both the museum and the land are owned by National Museums Liverpool. The exhibition fit-out contract is under way, and the museum will open in 2011.
Sharon Granville, Project Director, Museum of Liverpool
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/letters-to-editor/2010/09/01/letters-to-the-editor-september-1-92534-27176431/

She has written in a few time defending the old tin-pot running the place.
Defending Flemings Folly behaving like a museum Directors lap-dog.
If she is the project director then she should be sacked for the abysmal display of ineptitude.

Dicky Felt-tip P.A and Morrissey lover, the new high powered museum blagger wont be far behind this one either.
What will they do to defend him next when the muck hits the fan? http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/08/dr-david-fleming-to-be-investigated-by.html
What will they do when they are sacked and their jobs are done by volunteers? http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/07/are-liverpool-museums-skint-phil.html

How can you defend such a pointless waste of tax-payers money?
Unless you are the ones wasting the dosh.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/06/two-faced-liverpool-museums-will-alsop.html




http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/03/03/new-pier-head-museum-will-offer-great-views-of-mersey-64375-20549233/

Just look at the views above ruined for Flemings Folly who in his capacity as Director of the International Slavery Museum on Merseyside says he wants all young black men to feel shit.
Get him out.

Liverpool World Heritage Site-Before It Was Butchered

Forgot what it looked like before Liverpools Fib-Dems sanctioned its destruction. Liverpools World Heritage Site. Why couldnt they just leave it alone.

This is a letter in todays Daily Ghost
Black behemoths have no merit

SO GLIMPSE is the new view? Well, it is according to a spokesman for Liverpool City Council defending the flouting of development guidelines for the Mann Island site. It’s now OK, apparently, to block out all serious views of the “Three Graces” from the Liverpool side of the river with three black behemoths that have absolutely no architectural worth whatsoever.
If my memory serves me correctly, and it does, wasn’t it the question of views that scuppered The Cloud?
This had two slender, and architecturally distinguished towers that would have been constructed on The Strand, but, according to English Heritage and CABE would damage views of the Three Graces from The Strand, so that scheme was spectacularly abandoned. Now, instead of two slender towers and a Cloud, we have this development that blocks out everything – sorry, provides brief glimpses.
Oh, and yes, I nearly forgot, we also have a museum, built on top of some of Liverpool’s oldest history, almost on the river’s edge, which has attracted a substantial financial penalty because it flouts a “covenant” associated with views from one of the graces.
Could it possibly have been the same spokesman who, when there was an application to build an iconic 52-storey building at Brunswick, justified the rejection of the application by stating that the building would partially obscure the view – yes, view – of the Anglican Cathedral from a tiny conservation area in Birkenhead?
What I can’t understand is where are all these “experts” from the likes of English Heritage and CABE when this sort of thing happens; aren’t they supposed to be protecting our heritage or are they only concerned with preventing the construction of tall building as seems the case?
LDC, Sefton Park
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/letters-to-editor/2010/05/10/letters-to-the-editor-may-10-92534-26411124/

Heritage Fruitcakes from Bonkers-Ville #2

There are so many of them about. After last Fridays Post it went a bit looney as expected. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/heritage-fruitcakes-from-bonkers-ville.html I am now more convinced than ever that the Heritage Mafia need their Zimmer frames taking away from them and their computers locked down. I had someone who calls himself Conservation Officer........from East Anglia wanting to join, trying to post comments, thinking he was being mischievous. Yawn...Yawn...Yawn, its so boring.http://conservationofficer.blogspot.com/ This blog is an anonymous blogger, it seems, whats the point, he even swore on one posts, he's so daring is, Gareth Hughes who, is a Conservation Officer from East Anglia. http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=NCC055859&ssSourceNodeId=&ssTargetNodeId=3765 Surely these people need their bosses to look at how they represent their local authority? He says he is, or was on the committee of the c20th Century Society who would not speak up for Liverpool when the central core, which is 20th century part, of the world heritage site was to be decimated, despite numerous requests from Aiden, Eddy and Graham at the North West group. Despite the fact that a Herbert Rowses building was under threat and my favourite building, Herbert Rowses Ventilating Shaft was to be blighted. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/tm_method=full&objectid=18018031&siteid=50061-name_page.html Where were the Heritage Mafia when you need them. Some good local people spoke up but we needed a big society to help.  http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpooldailypost/ourview/columnists/peterelson/tm_headline=style-designed-to-complement-its-surroundings%26method=full%26objectid=18419657%26siteid=50061-name_page.html Where were you Gareth Hughes when we needed you?

  I had moved his blog to the trashcan, as it was so boring. It now seems he along with his mate at the Nemesis "Banana" Republic who just copies down things other have written, http://nemesisrepublic.blogspot.com/ they want to make nuisances of themselves.  It is far too easy these days for a walking zombie with no-life and a computer to start thinking they are powerful, never having to speak face to face with anyone. They, the heritage mafia, leave anonymous comments all over the place think they are being antagonistic...but really serve to take the argument away from real issues such as world heritage destruction and make it all the clearer that this is the reason why we are in so much trouble in Liverpool are the heritage pensioners who just talk amongst themselves....and stay anonymous so their wine and cheese evenenings wont get interupted.

I am being picked on by a bunch of Heritage Fruitcakes from Bonkers-Ville, who think they are the Mafia...but in reality they are the problem.

Peel Holdings Want the Pier Head-Stinky Ink Bartlett Goes Native in Cannes.

Here we have todays headline from the Putrid little excuse for a newspaper, The Liverpool Daily Ghost. (dead man walking will someone put it out of its misery). So up the behind of local property developers are they, that Stinky Ink Bartlett has been dispatched to to Cannes for the MIPIM Booze Cruise junket. We are not sure who paid his expenses but all week he has been reporting on Peel Holdings http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/03/17/around-1-000-new-jobs-to-come-to-liverpool-with-superport-plan-92534-26048018/  and Peel Holdings http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/03/17/mps-warn-liverpool-world-superport-scheme-will-be-hit-by-unfit-planning-shake-up-92534-26048019/


And Peel Holdings http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/03/18/double-cunard-liner-visit-coup-for-liverpool-92534-26057171/  and more from Peel Holdings.
Then yesterday they lined us up with this one http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/03/18/double-cunard-liner-visit-coup-for-liverpool-92534-26057171/  and today they put this into the arena. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//2010/03/19/liverpool-s-pier-head-could-become-a-base-for-cruise-liners-100252-26065361/ Can the public really be so stupid to take this hook line and stinker.

This time it’s a plan to illegally get rid of the Ferries and put in its place a cruise liner facility.
The Ferries are protected by law by an act of Parliament and still they try it on. Smoothed along by Stinky Ink and edited by "No" Mark Thomas you have to say the local papers are selling us down the river with their marketing of Peel Holdings on behalf of tax exile and owner of Peel http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/09/cruise-wars-liverpool-gets-full-naval.html

Stinky writes

LIVERPOOL'S Pier Head could become a base for cruise liners under radical temporary plans to transfer business from a dilapidated dock.
Last year the Government blocked plans to make the waterfront location a start and finish base for cruise liners – forcing ships to continue using Bootle’s Langton Dock to access full "turnaround" facilities like baggage handling and passport control.

But officials from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, owned by developer Peel, are in discussions with the city council to temporarily transfer cruises from Langton Dock to the publicly owned landing stage at the Pier Head.
He stinks on Peel today insisted this was a short term solution as it wants to build its own cruise terminal as part of its £5.5bn skyscraper Liverpool Water scheme.
And on

Ian Pollitt, development surveyor for Peel, said the company was trying to find solutions to cruise liner companies having to use Langton Dock.
"What we are looking at now is a half way house. Rather than lose the business we are talking about relocating it to the Pier Head."
It is hoped the plan would avoid the need for any grants to be paid back as it would only be a temporary move.
Once Peel's terminal had opened the cruise liners would return to a base further up the River.
Peel's terminal is already fully designed and located near the 60-storey Shanghai Tower in the Liverpool Waters Scheme.

The tower would be built at Princes Half Tide Dock.
In the comments section.
Moriarty wrote:
Stuff Southampton and stuff Peel Holdings. Let's have our OWN terminal and put a stop to the 'St Johnification' of the waterfront. Enough is enough. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/02/liverpool-waters-glass-pie-in-sky-we.html

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-have-peel-holdings-ever-done-for.html 
David Bartlett had to admit that when he came to Liverpool he did not know who Bill Shankly was, he had no trouble finding out who Lyndsay Ashworth was though. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/02/daily-peel-trinity-smoking-mirrors.html
All week we have been hearing from the Daily Peel with its chief publicity agent “The Milky bars are on Peel” Bartlett http://blogs.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/dalestreetblues/
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/10/peel-holdings-liverpeel-its-happening.html

They have stolen the iconic Skyline now they even want the world famous Ferries.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/12/liverpools-cruise-liner-cock-up-its.html

Warren Bradley-Talking About Liverpools Three Graces.

 Our intrepid leader Warren Bradley talks about Liverpools history.  Its always a laugh. It is no wonder the World Heritage Site has been decimated under his.......errr........leadership. He thinks the Thrre Graces, Liverpools Iconic symbols of the city were built before Liverpool got its charter. 800 years ago.

Liverpools Three Graces from the Sea. Oh What Happened There?

This is a picture taken from the TV so its a bit fuzzy.
It needs to be enlarged to see the full horror that awaits any sailor when arriving at Liverpools World Heritage Site.
The juxtoposition of completly alien styles have now created a architectural abonimation.
Why couldnt they just leave it alone. If its not broke dont fix it was cried out loud from all quarters.
Iconic to Ichronic in five years.
To think Liverpools world famous waterfront escaped two world wars, The Blitz, all the 60s planning disasters that befell us and this load of bad planning donkeys led by a small minority of architectural illiterate philistines do this with it overnight while Unesco and the English Heretics stand idly by and dont protect it. It is a travesty a crime against architecture that has befallen my city. We had it all and they have taken it away from us. I am ashamed of what they hve done to our once great syline.

Liverpools Canal Link; A Waste of Money.

THE WONKY JOURNEY. 17 million pounds of public money and it is wasted money. Our taxpayers money to split the Pier Head in two to take away the open green space. Yes I may hear you say it is unobtrusive but it is a cut through what was an open vista. This silly idea to link up fresh water with salt water was put forward by two obscure councillors and the Council and Liverpool Vision fell into the deep pool, of lack of thought and sold it to us with the help of the Oldham Echo and its sick little sister the Daily Ghost writer for the council. Funded by the NWDA along wit the new museum and the Three Black Slugs. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/07/mann-island-funds-new-museum-its-fact.html The original plans said it would have a recoverable finish that would enable open air concerts. This was dropped once the plans were passed, by guess who The "Dame of Disaster" the Cruella DeVille of Liverpools architecture Doreen Jones now living it up in Chester. Where her and Trevor http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/08/knock-me-down-with-feather-its-clever.html it is alleged live next door to the Duke of Westminster. She of the big hair still comes into Liverpool to have her barnet made larger by Herbert whose Bling building did not go to planning committee. The woman leaves us with a hole in the ground after she and Trevor teamed up with Windsor Developments(she owned Lamb and Sons that was knocked down over a weekend when a listing application was recieved. She did not care about anything but herself in my opinion and both of them were allowed to run the city and direct its planning where they thought fit. You did not stand a chance with this disgraceful woman passing what suited her and ignoring the public. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/03/superlambanana-land.html Only six barges at a time can use this link and all barges have to put up overnight while a British Waterways person comes and lets the waiting boats through in the morning at 6.45 a.m. Talk about making it difficult. It is no wonder that all the berths in front of the Albert Dock are empty. What a complete and utter waste of cash. http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/media/documents/LCL_Skippers_Guide_A3.pdf  Just follow the wonky journey on the British Waterways skippers guide and you will realise that navigating the shopping trolleys and lovely little creatures throwing halfies at the boats as you peacefully sail past the Strand is not quite worth it. 

Joe Anderson a Labour Councillor Delivering Redundancies on the Tram!

A MAJOR road scheme should be delayed to help pay for Merseyside to get a tram network, it was proposed last night. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/11/16/liverpool-merseytram-delay-port-of-liverpool-road-plan-to-pay-for-trams-scheme-92534-25176970/
What is with all these people in Liverpool who are content to think that Liverpools tommorrow is based on getting people to the shops in Grosvenor-pool. Bazooka Joe Anderson fires another salvo at the workforce to our region. Is he not aware that Peel Holdings already are planning to circumnavigate Liverpool. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/07/liverpeel.html This is Bazooka's resume at the council.
http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=222&J=1 Does he not think and is it a fact that he has watched the world heritage site being destroyed without lifting a finger? Is he a Liberal Democrat by any other name? Was he not on the boards of every regeneration agency who have milked European Slush Fund? £950,000,000 of Objective One money a load of it wasted on Mann Island and the Pier Head, and still complaints of no funds.
It has taken me a while to realise that the phlebiens of this city are not the local folk but those who have taken over the power strings of politics.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/search/label/Peel%20Holdings So why dont you just admit it Joe as part of Liverpool Vision............You should have went to Spec-Savers you are not thinking joined up. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/08/trinity-smoking-mirrors-group.html or is this Trinity "Smoking" Mirrors putting words in his mouth and he is not clever enough to realise it, desperate for the front page of the Daily Peel. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/07/liver-peel-conflicts-of-interest-begin.html Or is he working with the NWDA whose new Chairman is a ex Executive of Peel Holdings. Shame on you Joe. Labour putting peoples jobs at stake.... DeJa-Vu.

When You Walk Through A Storm.

All of my life I have waited for Liverpool’s Renaissance.

From that slum town I was born, surrounded by the ravages of the blitz, I have been waiting for us to get back on centre stage.
Nobody wanted the regeneration of Liverpool more than I.
I have watched false dawns with irksome regularity, I know Peter and Paul so many times I have watched them rob each other.
I have heard it all.
The anthem You’ll never walk alone really means something to me not just for football or because I grew up in the shadows of the ground, but for my sense of character and the symbol of the troubles we as a city have endured, those words touch my heart.
Always, I have believed that at the end of our storm there is a golden sky…until now.
I have watched patiently from the cultural sector while we as a city have been knocked from pillar to post by the national press, I have sold 20th century art and design through the bad times, through thick and thin, never given in.
Every city wants to be the new Bilbao….. Yes, if it was that easy.
Then, we get the chance to crawl up the greasy pole back to centre stage where this city belongs…we get some investment coming in and 950 million pounds of European Objective One funding.
And we make all the same mistakes of the 1960s creating slums of the future with buildings already out of date before built with little or no architectural merit, that erode the values of what our predecessors left for us, because they had the finesse to build them well.
The Oligarchs with their marketing budgets promise us world-class architecture and what do we get, instead a Trafford park in the city and thousands of empty apartments, hurray!!
As a city we descended into a feeding frenzy that produced hardly any jobs and a flock of carbuncles.

With the degeneration of our best assets…Our, world heritage site, Our Pier head, Our Icons, then alongside those beauties they stick a trashy tart …behind it 3 monstrous granite carbuncles and steal from us, our sense of pride, that kept us going through all those lean years, taking away my right to own heritage and culture and relieve me of the pride that I share with all who are lucky enough to be able to enjoy those majestic visions of the early 20th century.
These were free. You don’t fix it if its not broken.
We have made irreversible mistakes with our culture, we have lost the very essence of what the soul of this city is, of what our history means to us, and become bland, homoginised.
In order to be cultured to afford that status, you have to understand where you have been, in order to know where you are going.

They, the spivs, have undermined the very foundations of our world heritage site; it’s not theirs to give away.
A good conservationist knows the true value of what his forebears left us. What a shame for Liverpool that those in power did not.

A Giant TV Screen in the World Heritage Site.

Well its Laura Davis turn today, the baton keeps getting passed around, all the Ghost staff are taking turns to promote Liverpool Museums on behalf of the managing editor.

Pic showing this years National Carbuncle Cup winner http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/08/liverpool-wins-carbuncle-cup.html the Terminal Ferry Building, designed to be Son of Museum, and next years potential winner of the Carbuncle Cup. The architects of the Terminal Ferry Building, said it was meant to match, they had designed it that way. Liverpool's World Heritage Site destroyed.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2009/09/15/liverpool-pier-head-to-host-three-day-on-the-waterfront-film-festival-92534-24689216/

We have always said that the new museum looks like a giant TV screen.......not meant as a compliment....and blimey they go and make it into one. This time its for a film, On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, The powerful story of trade unionism, corruption and racketeering....wait a minute it sounds like how they got the plans passed.

This Fib-Dem Council Press Release from the Daily Ghost acting as agents for the Daily Museum and Liverpool Council is meant to throw the limelight off the TUC conference which is opening at the "Echo Arena" isn't that strange a Trade Union conference in a building with the name of the Echo outside.

Trinty Mirror who own the Echo have just laid off thousands, and sent its printing press out of the city to Oldham, just leaving a bunch of pen pushers to promote the council. It does not seem quite right, somehow it looks double standards. Larry "The Lamb" Neild was the Union Rep he jumped ship, and he is now working for a terrible PR company October Communications who were employed to promote the Pier Head Decimation by NML and the NWDA and Liverpool Vision. How times change.

Son of Larry, David Bartlett the new Milky Bar Kid on the block, appears to be carrying on the molar chomping tradition. Even giving Clever Trevor Jones a tumultuous send off. It seems he too will do anything to get in Reximillions good books.

The Birmingham Post has just gone weekly which is also owned by Trinity "Smoking" Mirrors Group. It must be difficult times at the Oldham Hall Street Offices.

But maybe if they worked harder and stopped printing such parochial dross more people would buy the paper. The World Heritage Site has been destroyed while they look the other way.

Well overpriced at 60 pence, at present, the only thing its good for is chips, that is, unless you are a PR company feeding them, that is.

A City Transformed-They Speak With Forked Tongue

This is the middle pages of City The magazine for Liverpool. It goes out free to 220,000 homes and if you read it everything is, wonderfully, gloriously, rose tintedly, spectacularly brilliantly, ace. Or so they tell us. They don't mention once the 90 million shortfall on the budget. Basically its part of the council propaganda machine that we pay for through our rates to tell us how well the Spivs running the place are doing. The sort of propaganda that Goebbels would have been proud of in the Second world war, Yes Ve are stuffing the gubbings out of Liverpool, destroying its Pier Head, its heritage, its character, it vill never recover, it is great for our people.

What takes the hamburger is the picture of Quote (sorry about the pic, click on to enlarge)

"The Iconic Liver Building Stands proud-as all around it a new 21st century Liverpool takes shape.

And the picture is taken from the roof of the new Terminal Ferry Building, that won the Building Design National Carbuncle Cup for crimes against architecture.

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/08/liverpool-wins-carbuncle-cup.html

Dylan Harvey the Developers Behind Mann Island are being Sued

MANN ISLAND, IS YOUR DEPOSIT SAFE?

It has been hailed by the Daily Ghost Writer and Echo to be the biggest deal in Liverpool's history, heralded by them with a big hurrah! http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/01/17/70m-deal-for-mann-island-apartments-is-biggest-in-liverpool-s-history-64375-20359750/ It was announced as a done deal, that Neptune Developments had sold all the flats at Mann Island to Dylan Harvey. http://www.neptunedevelopments.co.uk/news/shownews.asp?recordid=210

click on the pic and read the budgie headline for another piece of intellegent journalism.

It is my opinion that Bill Gleeson, business editor and his hoppo, Tony McDonut at the Daily Ghost Writer business section have not got the requisites to work out how these deals are done....or profits are shared without money changing hands. Or how hedge fund vehicles can be used to give the impression that a building has been sold. Have they ever been in business? Do they just print what someone at Downtown Liverpool (DLIB) tells them? They have in my opinion, been instrumental in promoting the architectural crime to destroy the world heritage site since its outset.

Now big trouble has broken out as Dylan Harvey (who are supposed to own the site) stave off angry buy to let and home-makers wanting a flat, in the North West. Who are now sue-ing them for lost deposits. They are trying to switch investors to Mann Island to the bemusement of most, making further promises. How does this affect those investing in Mann Island who may have splashed cash for a off plan development. Is it safe? Steven Gerrard was at court yesterday a hundred yards from his new promotion/investment deal http://www.mannislanddevelopments.com/latest_signing.html

THIS IS ABSENT FROM THE DP BUSINESS PAGES........Surely they need to warn people that there is a risk investing here. All the signs are there. The property market is in free fall and how much are these flats losing every week. And also advise them that the apartments at Mann Island are next to a giant carbon monoxide chimney ventilating the Mersey Tunnel.

Another claim against Dylan Harvey, Manchester-based property developer and broker was launched by a third group of buy to let investors. The investors have spent £100,000 on

deposits for ten flats, which they fear might never be built, and that is they have hired solicitors from Manchester-based law firm Heatons LLP, who have issued proceedings on the investors’ behalf.
The proceedings are made against Dylan Harvey Residential Ltd., the developer who secured a planning permission for the Clippers Quay apartment project, located on Trafford Road in Salford Quays last May but has not yet started the construction.
Toby Whittaker, the managing director of Dylan Harvey Residential Ltd. Said that the credit crunch has hit the company real hard, it had its debts and bills to pay, so the company has no opportunity to pay the deposits back to investors. However, he added the company will be happy to switch investors’ deposits to other schemes.
The company acquired £6.5 million in deposits from the Clippers Quay apartment project (5% of the average asking price of £200,000 per apartment). All but 100 deposits have been transferred to other schemes, according to Whittaker.
He also claimed that the company is a joint venture with Manchester-based Ask (Ask Dylan Harvey Ltd), however there is no written record of the partnership. Ask said the Clippers Quay project is simply postponed due to unfavourable market conditions, but will be revisited when the situation improves.
There is also evidence that the investors might pursue Toby Whittaker personally, because they believe the situation is more a matter of principle than a matter of money.
Lawyers in n Manchester and Birmingham are preparing claims on behalf of 2 groups of depositors who seek to return a total of £7 million.

http://dylanharveypropertydepositpetition.blogspot.com/ click on the comments section 123 of them

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/business/s/1085392_property_investors_launch_legal_action

SEE SOME MORE OF THE ANGRY COMMENTS AND PETITIONS ONLINE. On one post the boss of Dylan Harvey tells them its all alright don't worry give me a call...well I am busy give my PA a call. Not sure how many people got through.

BANNED FROM THE DAILY POST.

I was recently banned from the Daily Post by the editor Mark Thomas. He had hit the roof for, amongst other things calling the paper Trinity "Smoking" Mirrors Group. I have been unhappy with the way the editorials had been going for some time. A disregard for our culture and I had said the Post had become a Council mouthpiece. I cant even read the Echo it is that bad. I must have filled editions for them over the years and have given them countless front pages, with or without my name on it. I then, reluctantly at the request of one of the more respected journalists on the paper took down the critical posts on the basis that there were things that had to be said that need the press. I felt unhappy about this as the whole reason for editing the LPT pages was because of the frustration at what is going on within my city.
I subsequently spoke to Helen Hunt after I phoned the news editor asking for someone a bit more experienced than the youngsters I had been speaking to. (Andy Kelly was on holiday) I was reporting the 33rd Unesco World Heritage committee meeting in Seville, a most important and pertinent piece of information that the public did not need hidden away from them by the city council. Unesco had stated that not enough was done to educate the public as to World Heritage Site principles. She asked me "Where exactly is the World Heritage Site" There is no hope really. The article and subsequent editorial was a mess. It seemed to be aimed at me in a personal manner.
There was then a sham debate done about Mann Island that was treated as a balanced argument. It was like putting a balanced argument for the Third Reich you get Bernie Eccleston and two other peoples opinions and you make it look like there is another side for something that is fundamentally wrong. Its like the editor has been got to and is under pressure. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2009/06/24/jury-still-out-on-mann-island-blocks-92534-23960446/
It is alleged he is well and truly wrapped up by the legal threats of NML and is trying to unwind himself out of the situation by placating them with more and more publicity. It could be said that Fleming is working him like a puppet now, or at least it appears that way. Flemings wife or partner is Alison Hastings who is on the press complaints commission and is a trustee of the BBC. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/rex-makin/2009/02/06/st-george-s-hall-s-famous-floor-should-be-free-for-all-100252-22867688/

THIS IS NOT BALANCED ARGUMENT. This is the same old, same old that got us here in the first place.
IT IS POLITICS......AND HAS NO PLACE IN THE FUTURE LIVERPOOL. THIS HAS TO STOP. The local papers are far too "in" with big business in Liverpool. Seeming to sponsor it rather than keep an eye on it. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/06/dlib-in-skip.html
I have no respect for anyone who has allowed themselves to be manipulated or worse still not mitigated the problems. It would be simple, by having a architectural correspondent on the paper who knows what they are talking about. Reading the editors recent blog it is too painful to stand anymore and I would rather be banned from a piece of chip-paper than mix in the circles of uneducated and misinformed people....The Daily Post is on its way out anyhow.
This is the editors blog as he walked around the world heritage site with a blindfold on and a white stick.
http://www.ldpeditor.merseyblogs.co.uk/2009/07/penguins_superlambananas_-_and.html
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Posted by Mark Thomas on July 6, 2009 7:14 PM Permalink
Just back in the office after attending the launch of the Go Penguins event, Liverpool's next big public art project to follow on from the Go Superlambananas extravaganza last summer.It looks like it is going to be something special, and will be a big attraction to keep children entertained in the Christmas holidays.
To hear more from the artistic team behind it, check it out for yourself
It was a very enjoyable event, complete with live music, ice sculpture penguins, and a first glimpse of the penguins themselves, which schools and artists will be designing and painting in the next few months.The real treat though, was to have the excuse to walk down to the waterfront alongside the Three Graces for the first time in far too long, on a beautiful July evening.The event was staged in the new Mersey Ferry Terminal at the Pier Head, providing a sneak preview of a fantastic building with great views over the river. We also got the chance for an exclusive visit to the Beatles Story's new "4D" cinema, which opens later this month. I'm not going to give away too much, apart from saying It is a brilliant experience, and great fun. I suspect there will be long queues come the summer holidays.The new canal looked magnificent, and the new Museum of Liverpool building is simply breathtaking. I've lived and worked on Merseyside all my life, but this city still has the capacity to delight and surprise me, and take my breath away.I'm going home in a very good mood, tonight.
A STUNNING SETTING....IS HE SERIOUS ...THE PIER HEAD IS DESTROYED..... AND THIS IS WHAT WE GET FROM THE EDITOR OF A PAPER THAT A FEW PEOPLE STILL READ. http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/beauty-or-beast-new-liverpool-pier-head-ferry-terminal/5204487.article This is the most commented article on the Architects journal website. It is a debate about the new Ferry Terminal, that he thinks is a fantastic building. And he describes the new breathtaking museum...placation.

PAST EDITORS WOULD HAVE CAMPAIGNED TO SAVE THE WORLD HERITAGE SITE. You have to be able to understand what you are looking at first.
There seems no point anymore in messing around with people who cant see what is happening because they are too interested in allowing themselves to get to the sad stage where they consider that bad architecture is fantastic and the desecration of the world heritage site is a good thing. I BAN MYSELF..... STUFF YOUR PAPER, Mr Thomas.

Coda

It seems that I am not alone in my thoughts and it is well worth reading Correspondents take which is as ever well thought out. http://condensedthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/07/fading-echos.html

Mann Island funds the New Museum, its a fact!!!!

No matter what lies and spin they give us the facts are there. The new museum is funded by the Three Grotesques. There has always been a overall scheme for the Mann Island site. The fact that the NWDA are funding the new museum with funds from the sale of Mann Island seems to have been overlooked by many.

The failure of local editors to take this fact on board and not to believe what they are told by public relations companies astounds me.

The picture is taken from the D aily Post on day of the planning committee meeting, note the transparent blocks of flats behind the museum...are we all supposed to be thought of as stupid?http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/letters-to-editor/2009/06/29/it-s-just-one-big-mistake-92534-24007776/ SEVERAL LETTERS IN THE POST regarding Mann Island and the museum.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/letters-to-editor/2009/07/01/colourful-way-to-aid-charity-92534-24038507/

THIS IS A LETTER PRINTED IN THE POST in response.
Misleading

IN RESPONSE to Charles Korsham’s letter (“It’s just one big mistake” Daily Post, Monday, June 29), I want to set the record straight. The new Museum of Liverpool has been built on land owned by National Museums Liverpool, and has no relationship to the next-door commercial development.
Funding for the Museum has nothing to do with the "sale" of someone else’s land, and it is inaccurate and misleading to suggest anything else.
Joanna Rowlands, Director of Marketing and Communications

At the risk of this post getting a bit big I will lay on and show that the two schemes are inherently linked and are so from their conception of the Alsop glass pie in the sky. Also note all the usual suspects...a handful are there doing the damage. Mike Storey was a trustee of NML as was the Chairman of the NWDA as was the Chairman of English Heritage as was Loyd Grossman.

2.5 MILLION POUND FOR MANN ISLAND PROJECT
16 Nov 2004
Museum of Liverpool waterfront development takes a step forward
Proposals for a new Museum of Liverpool on the waterfront have takenástepátowards realisation. á
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA)áhas announced £2.5 million towards project development costs for the Mann Island site, Liverpool, subject to match funding from Objective One.
The NWDA Board has endorsed the strategy to develop this key waterfront site as a major new visitor destination. The strategy proposes outline plans for the site which include the development of a new Museum of Liverpool, extension of the Leeds – Liverpool Canal, and public realm/ open space.
The funding will contribute to costs incurred in developing all aspects of the proposal for the site. A full appraisal of the proposal will be undertaken by May 2005 to ensure all key objectives and outputs can be met. Key considerations in the appraisal will be value for money and deliverability, alongside a full risk assessment of the project.
National Museums Liverpool willácontinue to work with all key partners – NWDA, Liverpool Vision, National Museums Liverpool, and Liverpool City Council on the development of the site proposals.
David McDonnell, Chairman of National Museums, Liverpool said:
“We are excited about the real prospects now for the development of the Mann Island site. The NWDA Board decision means that we can now work towards making a spectacular contribution to Liverpool's renaissance and the region's cultural and tourism economy.”
Steven Broomhead, Chief Executive of the NWDA said:
“The decision by the public sector partners in July not to proceed with the Fourth Grace project provided an opportunity to take a fresh look at development options for the Mann Island site. Today’s announcement is an important step forward. The Agency is pleased to provide £2.5 million, subject to Objective One support, to allow proposals for the Mann Island site to be further developed. However, there is still a lot of work to do, the proposals must be able to prove beyond doubt that the project can be delivered on time and to budget, delivering a unique and inspiring visitor attraction with regional economic benefits.”

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mediacentre/displayrelease.aspx?id=430

NWDA approve proposals for Mann Island
08 Jul 2005
£32.7 million pounds provided for Museum of Liverpool
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is pleased to announce approval of plans for the development of the Mann Island site, Liverpool, one of the most important sites on the waterfront and at the core of the World Heritage Site.
Following a full appraisal of the proposals put forward, the NWDA Board has endorsed plans for the site, which include a new Museum of Liverpool, extension of the Leeds – Liverpool Canal, a mixed-use development incorporating enclosed public realm areas and new open space around a canal basin.
Funding of £32.7 million will be provided to National Museums Liverpool for the development of the Museum of Liverpool, and a further £7.57 million for the canal link. The museum will provide a unique, world-class cultural facility within an architecturally striking building, while the canal comprises the construction of a new 2 km section from the central docks, across Pier Head to the Albert Dock and will provide a significant boost to existing visitor numbers.
NWDA funding is subject to government approval and support from other partners.
Steven Broomhead, Chief Executive of the NWDA said:
“Mann Island is a key waterfront site, providing a gateway from the waterfront to the City centre. After a full appraisal of the proposals for the area, I am now confident that the site will become a major new world class visitor destination, contributing to the economic development and regeneration of Liverpool, Merseyside and the Northwest region as a whole.”
David Fleming, Director of National Museums Liverpool said:
“This is an amazing boost for the city and the region and it signals take off for European Capital of Culture in 2008. We are delighted that NWDA have demonstrated such foresight in supporting the Museum of Liverpool and that they are confident that we can deliver a world-class visitor attraction as a legacy to 2008.”
Liverpool Vision Chief Executive, Jim Gill said:
“The creation of a new destination at Mann Island is an integral part of the overall strategy for the City Centre Waterfront.
We welcome the news that NWDA has approved its funding for the Museum of Liverpool and Canal projects.á It means we have the opportunity to bring forward a series of linked complementary attractions from Princes Dock to Kings Waterfront which will attract and inspire local people and visitors alike.”
Cllr Mike Storey, Leader of Liverpool City Council, said
“This is one of the most important sites, not just in Liverpool, but in the region. We are looking for a development in keeping with a World Heritage Site and one of the most well-known waterfronts the world. Today's decision moves that ambition forward significantly.”

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mediacentre/displayrelease.aspx?id=468

MIKE STOREY SHOULD HANG HIS HEAD IN UNEDUCATED SHAME.

3XN Are They Mad

3XN the Danish firm who junked us with a giant skateboard ramp in the world heritage site have now designed a giant elastic band for Humlebaek.

This is what they did to Liverpool, they messed around with a shape and then decided to put a museum inside it.

The only consolation to those who live there is its bio-degradable.

I will have to look at this rubbish for all my life.

Liverpool's New Museum, if a ever a case for buildings that are already thought of as compost that should be made to degrade in ten years its this giant squashed ciggy packet. To think they destroyed the Manchester Dock that pre-dated the Albert by 60 years to build this museum. There is strange idea that scrawls on a scrap of paper or origami is architecture and the new Bilbao will come from someone that apears to have a disability and is not able to draw properly. It just does not happen that way. You end up with a giant egg box being funded by three ugly blocks of flats if you are not careful.

From BD magazine
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=781&storycode=3144331&channel=783&c=2&encCode=00000000019d0584

3XN designs eco-friendly pavilion for Denmark’s Louisiana museum
8 July, 2009
By Anna Winston
Danish practice 3XN has designed an eco friendly pavilion for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.
The pavilion, built in the shape of a Möbius band, is part of the Green Architecture for the Future exhibition, and was inspired by the biological cycle of life.
It is built out of biodegradable bio-composite materials. The structure’s shell is formed of flax fibres set in a natural resin, while cork sheets replace the polystyrene foam that would usually make up the inner core.
It has a coating of nanoparticles which keep the surface of the pavilion clean, built-in sensors generate energy from the footstep of visitors, and flexible solar panels power LED light fittings, making the structure 100% self sufficient.
The project was built in four months and involved 20 different companies.
Kim Herforth Nielsen, principal of 3XN, said: “The pavilion has given us the opportunity to showcase the possibilities which exist in building with sustainable and intelligent materials.
“Our objective has been to show that green architecture can be dynamic and active. Instead of focusing on consuming the least amount of energy, we need to focus on producing and using energy and materials in a more intelligent way than is the case today.”
The pavilion will be open to the public as part of the museum’s exhibition until October.