DC8

Granby Residents Association where allowed to give a presentation to the DC8(Is that all there is on the web about this committee?) Board meeting this evening. Barbara presented the same very good power point presentation as she did to the 3 parks committee. Quite a few of us were there to show our support, and Cairns Street residents were out in force, four of us. After the presentation we had a lively debate, but nobody took the position of a supporter for Lovell's plans. Elaine Stewart told us that her report is still in a draft stage, and that she would like to use some (or all?) of Barbara's presentation in it. She assured the meeting that her report will fully reflect the resident's views and will give the LCC (Liverpool City Council) a full view of the picture. Some on the meeting then wondered, that when reports to elected councillors done by officers are reflecting the views of local people, why is the will of these people not respected? Are flawed reports responsible? I also think: Lovell's proposals are not popular, to say the least. But what makes Lovell think that these proposals will be approved? The reports, briefs and data they used mostly comes from council officers. If the brief would have said: In the end you got to give local people a realistic opportunity to stay in the area then how do they come up with what is on the table now, which is: local people are bullied to sell up, tennants are evicted, and then vacant houses are demolished or refurbished, then sold on the open market. If local people have the money to buy one of the new houses (and they won't) they can do so. Yeah, right...