After finally rehousing the remaining tenants, the City Council obtained vacant possession of the Wavertree Gardens flats in early summer, and sold them to 'Direct Build'. For the past two years this London-based company has been anxiously waiting as the condition of the building continued to deteriorate, but they are now in the process of renovating the 72 flats for private sale. Wavertree Gardens, in the High Street, is one of the last surviving tenement blocks designed by Liverpool's first City Architect, Sir Lancelot Keay, in the 1930s.

This illustration is reproduced from the programme of the International Housing & Town Planning Congress, 1935.