NEWS FROM THE WAVERTREE SOCIETY (Jul.2018):

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DIARY DATES

OUR COACH TRIP
... to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Saturday 28th July is now fully booked. If you have paid for tickets, you should have received them by now. The Wakefield Civic Society will NOT be providing guided walks around the city, but will be welcoming our members on arrival and offering advice on places to visit. If you intend getting off the coach in Wakefield city centre rather than at the Sculpture Park, please contact
Robert Zatz as soon as possible.

HERITAGE OPEN DAYS
... in Wavertree will be Sat-Sun 8th-9th and 15th-16th September. The Lock-up will be open to visitors on Sunday 9th, 12 noon-4pm. Various other venues will also be open. So far, we have been notified that the Blue Coat School will be open on all four days, 11am-4pm. Dovedale Baptist Church will be open on 15th & 16th; sadly, this event will also mark the Church's closure after 112 years. Further details of the Heritage Open Days programme will be posted here on our website as and when they become available.

THE BIG HISTORY SHOW
... has been re-scheduled, the amended dates being Sat-Sun 29th-30th September. The venue will be the Western Approaches HQ Museum, in Liverpool city centre. The Wavertree Society, along with many other Merseyside local history societies, will have a table. If you would like to help us with this, please contact
any Committee member.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibitions 28 July 2018

Heritage Open Days (national) events directory

Big History Show information

TOWN HALL NEWS
The owners of Wavertree Town Hall - T J Thomas Group - have applied for planning permission and listed building consent to convert the front part of the building to residential use. The rear part, including the former ballroom and stables, was converted to apartments several years ago, but the front part was kept as a pub. The owners have now concluded that such a use is no longer financially viable, and are proposing to create 12 new apartments within the former pub area, making the entire building residential.

The derelict state of the Town Hall in the 1970s was one of the factors leading to the formation of the Wavertree Society. We have not objected to the current proposal (application refs 18F/1442 & 18L/1443) because it will mean that the whole building is brought back into use and is more likely to be well-maintained in future. We have welcomed the fact that - as pointed out in the Conservation Statement accompanying the applications - the proposed duplex apartments have been designed in such a way that the building could be 're-converted' at some future date, if and when market conditions change.

To view the submitted drawings and other documents relating to Liverpool planning applications, visit the Liverpool Planning Explorer website
http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/GeneralSearch.aspx

and enter the relevant reference (e.g. 18F/1442) into the Application Number box. Then click on the 'Search' button. When details of the application appear, click on the application number - in the left-hand column - to reach the 'Details Page for Planning Application'. For a copy of the application form, drawings, etc., click on 'Related Documents' (at the bottom of the page). To view any of the PDF files listed, right-click on the Document Name and download/save the file in the usual way. To submit comments to the Liverpool City Council Planning Department, click on 'Add Comments Here' to the right of the 'Comments Until' date. Or you can email your comments to planningandbuildingcontrol@liverpool.gov.uk , making sure that you quote your name, your postal address and the Application Number.

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