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The Downtown Organisation, Liverpool news alerts to: info@downtownliverpool.org or visit the DL website. www.downtownliverpool.org 15th-22nd August 2004 Call for Sponsors! call 0795 104 9095 for opportunities		Issue 15: May 20 2004 Liverpool eDigest
	Hello Downtowners - NEWS SPECIAL - PARADISE STREET DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL As you will all now be aware the news has been announced that the £750m Grosvenor scheme for the redevelopment of the Paradise Street area of Liverpool (PSDA) has been given the official go-ahead by the UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. This is an event of huge significance for the city! The city is at last beginning to undo the worst excesses of the 1960's Shankland Plan - PSDA will re-emphasise streets and active street frontages, integrate public transport and get people living and working in the heart of downtown. DL has supported PSDA from the very start, our concerns only related to our view that the scheme is under-developed, that the opportunity is there to create a Metropolitan experience rather than a mere retail destination. It's now in the hands of Liverpool City Council and others to ensure the consequences to the rest of the downtown retail are positively addressed and we are glad to hear both the leader and chief executive give their assurances of this. DL hopes that the commercial potential of the Strand as a boulevard, rather than a traffic corridor, will be realised. We hope too that the number of apartments in time will be greatly increased - at present 345 dwellings over 42 acres falls woefully short of the UK Government's targets for sustainable development. If meeting these targets means upping the building heights then so be it. As for all of us in Liverpool, we will be seeing a transformation at the heart of downtown, the scale of which hasn't been seen for some time. Let's then celebrate change and get on with the task ahead of Building a City.
	Downtown A reminder that the next Downtowner's network meeting is tonight Thursday 20th May 6pm at Tea Factory. Come along to hear about the plans for Downtown Week 2004 and how you can get involved. For those of you attending the CUBE Best Studio lecture by Liverpool-based architects Arkheion at Tate Liverpool tonight at the same time 6pm [more] why not come along to Tea Factory afterwards for some networking?
	Arkheion were recently the only practice in the North of England to be awarded in May a Building for Life Silver Standard for their Old Haymarket scheme in Liverpool. Building for Life is backed by CABE, the House Builders Federation and the Civic Trust and is the national standard for housing and neighbourhoods: [more] Bring it On! Old Haymarket, Liverpool Check out more residential developments, here in London, where design quality, community, and affordability go hand-in-hand Coin Street Community Builders And why not also check out some seriously adventurous public art in NYC.. Creative Time Are you a fast-growing downtown business? make sure you enter the Inner City 100 Index. innercity.org Nominations now open.
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