Architecture Programmes Review 2016

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site and brief Everton Park has borne the brunt of much of the City of Liverpool’s twentieth century housing policy. In the 1960s large amounts of terraced housing were cleared, creating the park from previously dense townscape. Occupants were relocated to New Towns outside the city, or in towers and slab blocks built in the local vicinity. With few exceptions most of these local projects failed and were demolished, leaving large tracks of green space in and around the new, rather poorly defined, park.

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The design project took a range of defined sites at the southern end of the park and asked for large scale housing proposals. The homes created were to be a mixture of two-, three- and four-bedroom.

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2 Liverpool John Moores University


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