In this video we take a look at 17 projects that , each in their own way, could or will change the face of Liverpool – ‘could or will’ because some of them may never be completed, but we hope they will be. This video follows on from my previous video about 17 projects in Manchester, all of which are active projects. I have come up with my own proposal for a station near Bramley Moore stadium. It’s a bit… sketchy! To visit all the locations, I did a tour of Liverpool by car – not the Batmobile but my other car! There is a connection between Batman and LIverpool, which you probably know about! I say a bit more about it during the video.
We visit the site of the planned project The Gateway on Leeds Street, an unusual reuse of an abandoned railway viaduct on Love Lane, more views of the waterfront from the Bramley Moore stadium down to Princes Dock as well as several more projects including two stations, one in planning, one proposed (by AidanEyewitness!)
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Well Liverpool seems very lackluster and boring with their projects.
Manchester with its ever growing skilyline is on another level. An untamed beast.
the whole of liverpool is going to look like slough business centre.
Hey, some further information for those curious:
Hemisphere will have two identical office buildings now & one residential block behind those two.
That derelict building you mentioned @2:40 recently had a planning permission to demolish & construct a 14 storey apartment block I think 2 weeks ago.
The new canning drydock proposal just got accepted today I believe!
Legacie are basically our lifeline here in Liverpool, they are mr reliable.
I'm pretty disappointed with the speed its taking to get the baltic train station started, it was supposed to be originally complete by 2025… There's multiple places to have the station around Bramley moore area yet I can't believe we don't have concrete plans for one, with the resi apartments & stadium being built, what are they waiting for? Good public transportation is very important (if not the most) for the growth of city areas.
Such a shame about the slave museum nonsense. Allowing black African-washing of their own guilt, with no mention at all of the white slave trade where our towns were raided in southern England, especially on Sundays (as everyone would be in church and a target). 1.2 million of us were taken to Africa, worked to death and men had their genitals cut off. No memorial to us – we're white. It is disgusting this self-flagellation. Where's the museum to the ending of the slave trade that was normal in all of human history until the British ended it? Nowhere you say? How typical. Where's the museum to the endless good the British have done for the world? Nowhere you say? Of course not. A culture that transformed an entire planet that means we have generated unimaginable wealth compared to previous generations, and seen our lives improved beyond measure is not worth a damn to these people. British success makes the Romans pale into insignificance in comparison but 'what have the British ever done for us?' will never be a question asked amongst the 15% that waste money on slavery museums with absolutely no context at all hailing all brown people as angels and all white people as evil due to their success. It is racist to blacks and whites for different reasons and this 'museum' should be closed permanently for being a propaganda unit for Western enemies. If it was a [real] museum, it would talk about the global slave trade and the fact that the Africans were (and are) the worst slavers on the planet alongside the Arabs and the ending of the trade by the British, but of course it won't. Context and academic rigour is missing.
Informative video,Liverpool has a long long way to go but fingers crossed, but what i have noticed is the lack of TREES, it's streets look souless without any trees , come on Liverpool it's not difficult to plant some trees !
the difference in development between Liverpool and Manchester appears to be increasing. Is it just me or Liverpool not only looks, but feels like a large town and not a proper City?
Beetham have bought the industrial estate near princes dock and have promised several skyscrapers so it should be interesting.
Another nice piece of work Aiden, I like Liverpool & have good memories of working at various venues across the City from the 80’s right up to the present day 😅
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
Thank you mate , love the Liverpool videos !
Liverpool is way behind Manchester when it comes to tall building development, something the Mancunians will no doubt gloat about, lol
are you German?
Sadly, between the cowboys and carpetbaggers half these developments will probably never happen.
Medium density over a large area can yield as big a population as having megatowers concentrated in a few areas. If Liverpool sticks to its guns its strategy might just work.
It’s unfortunate that none of the changes include any architectural significance in terms of infrastructure as all the rail network systems like exchange station and the dock lifelines from Canada dock to the electrified rail network have all been filled in. This shows the intent of the Government to deny any development of logistics to move freight.
The isolation of the port access to enable passenger access is also a massive problem. These meaningless buildings all seem to be built in strategic positions to make sure this cannot be undone. Perhaps a look at the old maps of the turn of the century could show how it is supposed to work. Bootle now is the most neglected and deserted place in the country. After being bombed to bits during the war and totally left to rot. The only possible chance of a rebirth could be some national move to end the use of the docks as a processing graveyard as it now is for the storage of scrap metal and to build new state of the art rail and motorway access to the docks. As planned before the common market.
Nice vid.
It's great to see all these skyscrapers cropping up in the North West, we need more modern looking skylines in the UK (alongside London) but keeping the traditional buildings too, Frankfurt in Germany does this perfectly.
Very well done. I think your site suggestion for a Bramley Moore stadium station is spot on. I just get the impression from this video that Liverpool has big unrealized ambitions. It's quite a contrast to what is happening in London and nearby Manchester and it's a little depressing. The visualization at 5:29 is impressive. It reminds me of London's Wood Wharf which is very actively being realized. Speaking of Wood Wharf you feature in the video One Park Lane which is a curved building as is Wood Wharf's One Park Drive, though that's about all they have in common. I think Liverpool, with docks, historic architecture and riverside location, has the potential to be a world class city (again) and hopefully that will eventually happen.
very informative!
Seen and heard all this before..both under..Labour and Liberal councils…going all the way back to the 1960's..and The Grand Plan for Queen square and surrounds…what did we get.
A 2 way bus station route …big deal..meanwhile the city at the other end of the ELR…goes from strength to strength..seems a new skyscraper goes up every month
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I'm hoping to see some good development of the empty fields around the Park road and North hill street area. It's only a stone's throw away from the Baltic triangle but the land has been empty for years. There's a lot of empty land and the fields are a good size to build some ambitious projects, and it's always good to see some more investment in Liverpool 8.
Been watching probably you and yer pics for dacades… Aidan.. Personal emotional attachment to Scouser Land…So hope the don't muck it up! ;/