Liverpool planning
Sir: Mr Heffer's article 'The Liverpool , example' (July 28) describes the Liver' pool city centre when the shops and offices have closed at night as being more like a ghost town than the centre of an international sea port. Obvious!Y Mr Heffer does not go out at night in his own city because with four neW hotels, many new restaurants catering for all tastes and pockets, four threatres and many cinemas and clubs, the centre is now very much alive in the evening. Also as a result of the citY centre plan there are now plenty of car-parking facilities and roads free of traffic congestion. Enough people knock Liverpool without one of its own MPs joining il?.; No wonder industrialists are put 011 investing in Liverpool if the left wing of the local Labour Party encourage industrial unrest, twin Liverpool with Haiphong, and now want to abolish the Lord Mayor and title of City. I do not agree with Mr Heffer that ,the Liberals did well in the recent elections because of the other parties, handling of the city centre plan. The Liberals did not necessarily do well where the electorate was affected bY demolition and redevelopment. The normally Tory Aigburth ward which was won by the Liberals is not in anY way affected by the city centre plan and yet many of the central ward k remained staunchly Labour. The results were a mixture of the usual mictter°1 anti-government feeling and a distrust of the local left wing Labour policies which enabled the Liberals to make hay. John Entwistle The Coombs, 28 South Road, Grassedale Park, Liverpool
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