Work to knock down homes in Anfield Village and upgrade the area completed in 2020
Randolph Street sits within Anfield Village
Randolph Street sits within Anfield Village
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Gardens and driveways are to be formally handed over to residents in Anfield six years after work was completed to demolish the poor quality end terrace homes they replaced. More than a decade ago, work began to knock down more than 200 mostly derelict homes in Anfield Village as part of a £25m scheme.
Among these were end of terrace properties in poor quality, which were replaced by landscaping to improve streetscape. This fell under the wider comprehensive Anfield Regeneration Programme which is ongoing to this day.
Forming part of this approval was the creation of private gardens/driveways which were to be transferred to the new end terrace properties, providing greater enclosed space from the newly created public realm. This work was finished six years ago.
Now at long last, Liverpool Council is signing off the formal handover of the land to 14 properties where the homes once stood.
The intention was to remove visual blight, address poor perception of the area, and create a revitalised, greener and more sustainable neighbourhood
The council completed demolition of the homes in 2018. Around 600 were expected to be knocked down initially with more than half saved from the bulldozers and subsequently refurbished.
Your Housing Limited (YHL) and Liverpool Council subsequently coordinated the delivery of the environmental improvements with work finalised in 2020.
This included 14 new gardens and driveways for the adjoining end terraces, communal refuse stores, and improved public realm.
In January this year, a decision was made under delegated authority for the transfer of land within Anfield Village owned by YHL, forming part of the original scheme.
This land transfer was finalised in, assembling all 14 garden land plots and public realm improvements into full council ownership.
When the environmental improvements were negotiated in 2012, end of terrace owners gave their written consent to the works on the basis that gardens would be created for them to provide defensible space from the newly created public areas, and that upon completion of the work they could be transferred to them.
The council is now in a position to transfer the remaining garden and driveway land to the end of terrace owners, in line with the agreed offer letters.
The Anfield Village plans involved around 600 properties which lie in the former phases six and seven of the Anfield-Breckfield housing market renewal initiative (HMRI) area.
They fall within the boundary of Back Rockfield Road, Walton Breck Road, Sleepers Hill and Gilman Street, close to Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium.