Welcome to the Triangle Website, for optimal user experience we recommend that you view our website using Mozilla Firefox: High Performance Super Speed Browser, faster start-up times, rapid graphics rendering and improved page load speed, the latest version of Firefox is full of major performance improvements you’ll notice instantly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein
Quick links
|
The Triangle Website members volunteer their time and knowledge of key issues that have blighted this area of Anfield for many years! Ruth Little, Chair of the Anfield and Breckfield community council, says: "After people suffered so much, from the football club and Your Housing leaving properties empty and blighting the area, when they went back to the original plan I did wonder what the last 12 years of consultation have been for.
Ros Groves, chair of the Salisbury Residents Association, said she "hit the roof" when she read that Ian Ayre said Liverpool would "need to convince" residents if the club were to stay at Anfield, and said: "We're having some great dialogue with them." Groves said; “Liverpool FC have never held any meaningful discussions with residents.” "I cannot see how it can be called 'great dialogue' when Ian Ayre has been to one meeting with one residents group," Groves said. "Everybody can see which way this is going now. We just want Liverpool football club to be open with us." Many houses around Anfield have been blighted for years – a significant number bought by the football club and left empty, a source of great resentment among residents left coping with the area's decline. 
James McKenna, chair of the Spirit of Shankly supporters' union, says the fans have sympathy for the club's neighbours. "The stadium expansion is all about the club making more money, and fans will have to pay more for tickets," McKenna says. "To do that, Liverpool have played a part in derelict houses, streets boarded up. It's a blot on LFC's record. 
The Spirit of Shankly supporters' union.
Bill McGarry, vice-chair of the Anfield Rockfield Triangle Residents Association, said: "People have suffered blight and are entitled to adequate compensation, real replacement value of their homes, particularly given what the football club stands to gain. There has to be some social justice about this." Patrick Duggan, chair of the Anfield Rockfield Triangle Residents Association, is an ardent critic of the club, whom he vehemently accuses of running the area down. "I have always been a Liverpool fan," says Duggan, "They play 'You'll Never Walk Alone' but they have left their neighbours to walk alone for years." 
Anfieldscandal.com
Howard Macpherson, now 52, was the first to sell his house on Lothair Road to the club, in 1996. He had lived there, at No 39, a four-bedroom end terrace, for 10 years. Macpherson says it was a fine home, which he had spent money refurbishing, but after Liverpool bought it they always left it empty – now for 17 years. "Anfield was a good area, all the houses occupied, nothing like it is today," says Macpherson, who runs a garage, Aintree Motors. "The area started to decline in the early 1990s with the city's economic problems. But Liverpool football club accelerated the decline, by leaving good houses empty and boarded up. It wasn't a natural decline; it was engineered." Paddy McKay, a builder who has lived for 37 years on Walton Breck Road, is refusing to accept the council's offer. He and his wife Carol brought up three daughters there; he has paid his mortgage off in full and argues that, if he is forced to move, he should be paid enough to buy a similar house somewhere decent and compensation for the years of blight. Even now, antisocial behaviour is continuing on those streets, including house fires. "Liverpool FC have said they want to be good neighbours? They're the world's worst neighbours; they couldn't care less," McKay says. "After all the damage they have done to the area, they should do the decent thing by the residents." Mrs Highfield, Lothair Road resident said: I am 60 years old and I moved into this road in 1953 with my parents, my mother died very young, and my father looked after myself and my older brother. Eventually I was married and brought up my 3 lovely children in the house I have always lived in, Lothair Road was once a lovely happy residential area. As time passed and my father got older he became housebound, and when he could sit at the front door he would become very upset at having to look at boarded up houses in front of him and all around him, to think he had scrimped and saved to pay for his house all to see it come to the shambles surrounding the once very admired road. We have had to waited long enough. 10 - 15 years is a very long time and the blight started even before that. I am absolutely heartbroken for my poor dad who died 5 years ago, and now for myself and my children. Evan Roberts, Lothair road resident/retired fire-fighter said: One can only speculate that perhaps enough properties in the road have now been secured in order for the rest to be made the objects of compulsory purchase orders and then demolished. Many residents believe that LFC expansion is the major reason why so many homes in the Rockfield area have been left derelict for more than a decade. Long-term decisions have been made in the interest of LFC while the wider implications of what those decisions have done to this community - have been negated. We know it started years before FSG became owners - but it still continues under their ownership. Garry Houghton, Alroy road home-owner, said: I think this should go to a public inquiry, the whole thing is just for LFC’s benefit with the city council acting as the go between. Joe Anderson we know your real motive is profit. The land you unlawfully obtain from residents will be leased to LFC, we want a public inquiry! Wake up, the city council are the problem, most of the residents don't trust the council. This mess could have been dealt with years ago, if only David Moores and Rick Parry had been bothered to talk to residents of Lothair/Alroy/Rockfield and Walton Breck Road. Why didn't Ian Ayre speak to residents 5 years ago? He's always sprouting on about great dialogue with residents! We don't know what residents this dialogue was with? It wasn't with anyone affected by CPO and demolition to clear the way for LFC expansion, that's a bit strange don't you think?
Darron Eden, Lothair road resident/Website Editor/Local Campaigner: As a fan of LFC the TEAM I really do want what's best for the TEAM. Although I never envisaged that my support for LFC the TEAM would actually be tested to the extreme by having to sacrifice my home. The home of my six beautiful children, the home that has been lovingly maintain year after year while all around us rot and decay festers. As a concerned father, a resident and the editor of a website in support of local people, I'm outraged that the city council, Arena housing and LFC think they can get away with this obvious premeditated long term social crime. Graham Jones, owns No 63 and 65 Rockfield Road, accuses the club of deliberately running the area down from the mid-1990s by buying up houses in the neighbouring streets and leaving them empty. Mr Jones, whose properties are wanted for demolition by Liverpool FC to expand their Anfield stadium has said he will not sell without significant compensation for years of blight in the area. "Liverpool began buying houses and leaving them empty because they wanted the streets knocked down," Jones said. "It was dereliction by design, and the council allowed it. We've said we're not interested in their offer and we want our day in court." Paul Mahoney, whose company, MGS Estates, owns 5 Lothair Road, accused the council of "acting as a puppet of the club" in forcing people to sell so the club can expand Anfield and make more money. But he said he is likely to agree a deal. Bill Higham, who owns 25 Alroy Road, says he was offered £55,000, which he refused outright, for a house he has had to refurbish twice after it was seriously vandalised. "I find it disgraceful," he says. "After the way the area has been run down, I'm being forced out and they want the properties for a song. They could pay everybody up, properly, for less than one Liverpool player's wage." |
The Triangle Website "FAIR USE" Declaration
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use. The Triangle website and forum may contain copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorised by the copyright owner. In the wider interests of the Anfield community - The Triangle website has made this material available – in an effort to advance the understanding of social and environmental responsibility issues, corporate accountability and human rights. Where possible The Triangle website has endeavoured to acknowledge ownership of such content contained herein.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use. The Triangle website and forum may contain copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorised by the copyright owner. In the wider interests of the Anfield community - The Triangle website has made this material available – in an effort to advance the understanding of social and environmental responsibility issues, corporate accountability and human rights. Where possible The Triangle website has endeavoured to acknowledge ownership of such content contained herein.
It's Time To End The Lies
The Triangle website members volunteer their time and knowledge of key issues to help and support our fellow residents.
Copyright © 2012 The Triangle. All rights reserved. The Triangle website is non-funded and non-profit generating
Copyright © 2012 The Triangle. All rights reserved. The Triangle website is non-funded and non-profit generating
