Despite the powers that be trying their hardest to make the place look like something from a war zone to encourage people that it is not worth saving and that they should get on board and embrace demolition & new build properties.

Even though these locals have not been offered any assurances or contracts to swap their home for a newly built one in the area when/if they get built. They are offered a low amount for their current property, below current market value & then if they're lucky they may get first chance at one of the new build properties even though no mention of what price they will be for sale at, i'd imagine several times what they are demanding the owners take for their current homes.

I know someone who took "councils market value" of £65,000 for their home (even though the smaller 2 up 2 down terraced houses have been changing hands up around the £100,000 mark through private sales a matter of months later) because they where sick of the way the area had been run down over decades by the powers that be and had just had enough and wanted out of it asap. They then of course had to go and get a mortgage to add to their BOUNTIFUL payout just to secure a small flat (apartment) in another part of liverpool that is even further away from the city centre which is now becoming more and more sort after as has happened in other cities twilight zones around the city centre.

The fact that only a very small percentage of these proposed new build houses will actually be for rental & the vast majority will be sold at their "true market value". The current houses as stated by the council & cronies aren't worth what people are actually buying and selling them at, and they are not prepared to pay the true current market value for these properties as they have increased in value lately due to property speculation (isn't this how the property market and redevelopment works?) in the area with it becoming gentrified.

But no mention about how it has been fine with them for the local housing market having been artificially depressed for decades due to the majority owners being the council & other social landlords installing the worst kind of tenants they could seem to find to encourage home owners out and property values down and get us to the stage we're at now were their cards are finally laid on the table and we can see what has been the plan for all these years.