The Culture Blog’s paparazzi desk has sent this image of new Liverpool Football Club Roy Hodgson taking a stroll down Hope Street.
Ray Davies on Hope Street
The Culture Blog’s snapper desk has received this image of Ray Davies prior to his gig at The Phil last night.
What’s to be done with Concert Square?
The bars, the clubs, the violence and the whole sickening spectacle of Concert Square are symptoms of the problem, but Liverpool’s city centre should never have been allowed to get in this state in the first place.
Tesco withdraws Hope Street application due to Facebook petition
In case it passed anyone by, Tesco withdrew its application to build a store on Hope Street, after a significant amount of protest emerged online, focussed around a Facebook group ,which ended up with over 4,500 members.
In a rare triumph of people power, Tesco’s indicated that it was prepared to acknowledge the level of public feeling and look elsewhere for a new site.
I think it’s fair to say that few people expected the supermarket megalith to heed any complaints, but heed them it did.
Someone who must be scratching his head over all of this is
08 Sep 09
Posted in Life in Liverpool, Liverpool business, Regeneration
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Abandon all Hope – another fucking Tesco
You know, Tesco isn’t all bad. Well, OK it is – but a new Tesco store isn’t the end of the world.
However, a new Tesco store on Hope Street – slap bang in the middle of the ‘cultural quarter’, connecting two astonishing cathedrals, host to the iconic Philharmonic Hall, Everyman Theatre and Philharmonic pub and blessed with its own street festival – is a bloody awful prospect.
Announced at a time when the city council has somehow allowed a developer to destroy Josephine Butler House, the prospect of another sodding Tesco store blighting the otherwise-stunning thoroughfare is a depressing one.
Laser-guided music connects Hope Street cathedrals
Two laser beams – one visible and one invisible, the latter carrying the music – connect the Metropolitan and Anglican cathedrals, which stand at either end of Hope Street.