Homes battle looms if Everton stadium gets go-ahead

Nov 8 2007 Liverpool Daily Post

SEVENTY-ONE houses and a nursing home could be demolished to make way for the proposed Everton FC stadium in Kirkby.

The buildings will be under threat if councillors give the go- ahead for the development, which will include a new Tesco store and other shops. being planned to transform the town centre.

Residents in the four streets which lie within the area have organised a protest group in a bid to save their homes, led by grandmother Dot Reid, 57, from Spicer Grove.

Confirmation that the homes could face demolition, along with the 42-room Cherryfield nursing home, came in a report presented to Knowsley council’s cabinet yesterday. (Wed

The report adds that residents could be offered replacement housing.

Thousands of residents will also be questioned again on the move. It is only five months since local authority leaders last canvassed them on their views on the £400m plan.

Knowsley council were planning to start the consultation if the go- ahead to a draft "vision" for Kirkby was given.