I've seen back gardens bigger than that plot of land you absolute weapon.
Have you really? Well they have literally just built a brand new school on the site, a site that has been more or less derelict for decades. The size of the new school is of a similar size of the remaining field that is adjacent to the new school. I accept that children also need a playing area, but that would have been possible before the construction of the new school, and still is possible given the state of the housing that surrounds that area. The 'housing' in that area needs pulling down, and is of a worse standard than the older properties that surround Goodison. If it comes to it, then buy the new school and add a playing area. The 'free' school could be built elsewhere and doesn't HAVE to be located where it currently is.
You would have to buy approx 350 houses, excluding the school. At current valuations of approx 70k it would cost about 25 mill just to purchase. Then demolition and landscaping. Not cheap befor anything done to the stadium.
I'm talking about the houses on Muriel Street and Diana Street, if there is a total of 350 houses within those streets then fair enough, but I don't think there is. I would say there is less than one hundred. I wouldn't be paying 70k for any of those houses either, but if that actually is the going rate, then I think we would be looking at the price of an Anichebe or Kone to purchase those houses.
The restrictions are they are all peoples homes. Kinell mate.
Nobody is talking about stealing houses off people, they are talking about buying houses at or beyond market rate. You moan about the supposed adverse way that the two football clubs allegedly treat their neighbours, but the truth is that both clubs bring an awful lot to the area, and that the football clubs bring a lot more to the area than the gang of buy-to-let property owners that I imagine own most of the houses in Muriel and Diana Street.
The deterioration and lack of commercial diversity on County Road has been replicated up and down the country, and has more to do with the internet and large supermarkets providing people with whatever they need, rather than it having anything to do with EFC or LCC. If we don't redevelop Goodison, then Everton will eventually move away from the area, and it's really quite obvious that such a move would have a far more devastating effect on the local area than buying properties off buy-to-let landlords would.
There were at least two rows of terraced housing behind the Park End that have now long been knocked down and nobody is crying about the people who once lived there. I would argue that the knocking down of the houses behind the Park End has benefited the area, and that nobody was robbed during the process.
