The bulk of the money spent on strengthening Liverpool's commercial position and ensuring that we have create major international airport would be top of my list. Naturally along with this a comprehensive review and development of local and national rail links ensuring a direct regular service to every UK major city.
Better connections nationally and internationally would then help us secure the next 100 billion in inward investment providing hopefully a plethora of well paid jobs and opportunity for all.
A giant land reclamation from the sea project, mostly West of Seaforth/Crosby and North of New Brighton. Combined with tidal lagoon electricity generation, flood defenses and a Mersey barrage. Further including a new city, aquatic recreation, dry docks, manufacturing for wind power and oil rigs.
I don't think this is a waste of time I think it is a useful fantasy! Blue sky thinking is often the start of an achievable plan. If you ran the video back just a few years and checked out the “buildings at risk list” you would be amazed at how many have found useful life - more here than many other places I would suggest! You could start with the North Western Hotel (built 1871 converted to LJMU Hostel 1996) thru to the recent Stanley dock developments, Albion House, Royal Insurance building, et al. And of course there are a few to go and some in the pipeline such as Heap’s Mill, Hamilton Square but I would suggest pride in the achievements and optimism for the future is a better option than cynicism and rubbishing creative ideas.
Dare I suggest that the billions exist? We just have to convince those that control them that this is a good place to invest. And we don't need to restrict our focus to London, Manchester or China. Many of the schemes listed on this forum could attract funding from national and global philanthropic people and funds. Liverpool One came from that local chap Gerald Grosvenor and Liverpool Two from another called John Whittaker so who’s going to anti-up for Liverpool Three – whatever it may be? The first two started with a vision and who knows where the imagining on this site will end or what it might start. Could be that behind one of these nom de plumes there is a mega-bucks eccentric looking for somewhere to leave his/her legacy – How about an iconic botanical Eden-style project for Wavertree from the Pilkington Family Trust? Please let me believe!
I often wonder if the local authorities truly realise the potential of simply 'asking' the Bill Gates/Warren Buffets/Richard Bransons of the world for some hard cash.. Some of these multi billionaires are a surprisingly philanthropic lot, and as long as the money us spent on something which accords with their personal interests and has their name attached,its surprising how often they crack open the cheque book.
If I was Joe Anderson, I would be unashamedly travelling the world with my begging bowl.
Lets say Liverpool got a £1 billion donation for the school of tropical medicine to work on diseases affecting the developing world, from someone like Bill Gates who is known to be passionate about such things. Would anyone care if it involved attaching his name to the project considering the potentially massive impact on the city? I know I wouldn't.
Build a massive space station with an accurate laser to blow up Manchester airport and Picadilly station so that Liverpool gets all their routes and guarantees a HS2 link. Anything left over build lots of new Merseyrail stations and an underground metro link to the airport.
Huge financial wastage that JM. Why not buy a tactical nuke from N.Korea for a few bob, and spend the rest subsidising the regions beer tax for the next hundred thousand years? The rest will fall into place overnight. :yes:
They could make a documentary on Mancs demise: 'Dodgy Retro Threads'.
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