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The fourth book of a series of four about the history of the Klondyke area in Bootle. © Jessie EdgarTRANSCRIPT
LITTLEKLONDYKE
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The Klondyke area consisted of nine hundred Victorian terraced homes, commercial properties and the Welsh Presbyterian Church. Four hundred of these properties were Compulsory Purchased, and the last resident - Bridget Hogan, an 88 year-old woman, was evicted on 8th March 2012. There are 480 properties remaining here, which we plan to refurbish and remodel as sustainable green homes for future generations.
The Maritime Community Development Agency with members of the community and various partners will establish a ‘Little Klondyke Community Land Trust’, to refurbish and bring back into use the homes, commercial properties and the Welsh Presbyterian Church.
The remodelling will produce a larger variety of house types and create new eco homes, providing around 2000 bedspaces for families to build their own homes for the future.
We have the support of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, The Great British Property Scandal and George Clarke (Government Empty Homes Advisor).
1982
94
1983
‘Most people would think it potty that a country with a housing shortage would spend millions knocking down homes just to create open space. We think this is a deeply unimaginative and unappealing way of dealing with empty homes and we urge the councils involved to change their plans and consider renovating empty houses, or even giving them away conditional on new owners renovating them.’David Ireland
(Chief Executive of Empty Homes Agency)
95
1984
96
1985
‘Refurbishment could achieve dramatic benefits far more quickly and cheaply than the bulldozer.’ Marcus Binney
(President of SAVE Britain’s Heritage)
97
19861986
98
1987
‘The people who still live in these places provide the best hope of a revived strong community; many will stay and no doubt more would be happy to return to a revived neighbourhood. Terraced houses are amazingly adaptable and with imagination can be transformed into exciting places to live. Huge amounts of energy and history are invested in them. Adapting them for the future unlocks huge environmental and heritage benefits.’ David Ireland
(Chief Executive of Empty Homes Agency)
99
1988
100
1989
101
‘These substantially sound homes... should be our main target for retrofitting’.Philip Newbold
(Guardian Reporter)
1990
102
1991
103
‘The government should focus on renovating empty homes in order to meet their target of building three million new homes by 2020’George Clarke
(Independent Empty Homes Adviser)
1992
104
1993
‘Whilst Britain needs more homes, they don’t all have to be built from scratch. Creating them from empty property saves substantial amounts of embodied carbon dioxide over building new houses, and minimises the amount of land used for development.’Empty Homes Agency
105
1994
106
1995
‘...tackling the 700,000 empty homes across the country was a top priority for the Government, and would be a key feature in the drive to increase the provision of affordable housing.’Andrew Stunell
(Communities Minister)
107
1996
108
1997
109
‘The government’s housing strategy pledged £150m to tackle the problem and will encourage private landlords and housing providers to use Green Deal funding to renovate empty homes’.Liam Kelly
(Guardian Reporter)
1998
110
1999
‘It’s shocking that hundreds of thousands of houses sit unoccupied while people across the country are in need of a home of their own. Thousands of homes have already been brought back into use in the last year - but there are still many areas where there are whole streets of abandoned homes’.Andrew Stunell
(Communities Minister)
111
2000
112
2001
‘I look forward to...seeing more families benefiting from a secure, stable home as more empty properties are brought back into use.’George Clarke
(Independent Empty Homes Adviser)
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2002
114
2003
‘Every day Shelter sees families up and down the country whose lives are being torn apart by the shortage of affordable homes.’Kay Boycott
(Director of Communications at Shelter)
115
2004
116
2005
‘Mark (Hines) reached the conclusion that ‘green’ regeneration can best be achieved through sensitive refurbishment and creative upgrading of existing housing stock. This will create urban ‘eco-communities’ which take advantage of infrastructure which is already in place. His is a bold vision and one which no future government can afford to ignore.’Marcus Binney
(President of SAVE Britain’s Heritage)
117
2006
118
2007
‘I care passionately about this subject and I’ll leave no stone unturned in my efforts to find a solution to the problem and get these houses back into use for the families who need them.’George Clarke
(Independent Empty Homes Adviser)
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2008
120
‘For every two families needing a home, there’s a property standing empty - properties that, all too often, attract squatters, vandalism and fly-tipping. That’s why over the past year, I’ve made £150 million available to bring these homes back into use.’Andrew Stunell
(Communities Minister)
2009
121
2010
122
2011
123
‘A retrofit scheme to scale would create lots of new jobs in construction, reduce homelessness, cut domestic energy consumption and tackle urban blight. What’s not to like?’.Philip Newbold
(Guardian Reporter)
2012
124
P94Dai Gwynne from COMTECHSA visiting Little Klondyke
P95Mona Street
P96Bluebells growing in Aspinals Park
P97Mary Road
P98Vines growing on a drainpipe in Mary Road
P99View over Little Klondyke from Aspinals Park
P100St John and St James Church before demolition
P101Mary Road
P102Monfa Road
P103Recording for The Great British Property Scandal on Edith Road
P104Monfa Road
P105Mary Road
P106Bluebells blooming in Springwell Cottages, Springwell Road
P107Recycling the slates in Willard Street
P108St John and St James Church
P109Mary Road
P110COMTECHSA looking over plans for the future in Elizabeth Road
P111Annie Road
P112Mary Road
P113Eleanor Road
P114St John and St James Church
P115Marion Road
P116Dai (COMTECHSA), Emma and Ed (volunteers) discussing the future
P117Roses growing in the garden of Mary Road
P118Monfa Road
P119George Clarke in Mona Street
P120Monfa Road
P121Mary Road
P122Mary Road
P123COMTECHSA and MCDA volunteers and The Welsh Presbyterian church
P124Mary Road
124 is number of years the Klondyke has been standing and with the our support it will remain for at least another 124 years.
©Little Klondyke 2012Photography by Juliet EdgarDesigned by Jessy EdgarMaritime Community Development Agency, Charity Number: 1067675