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Campaign victory in fight to save homes

Nov 24 2006

Liverpool Echo

 

Elizabeth Pascoe, outside the High Court in London, after her victory in a test case against the Edge Lane regeneration project

CAMPAIGNERS today won a major victory in the battle to save hundreds of homes in Liverpool's Edge Lane.

A judge officially quashed a legal order forcing dozens of residents to sell their houses so they could be bulldozed.

His decision followed weeks of uncertainty and marks a stunning success for grandmother Elizabeth Pascoe, 60, who led the campaign.

After spending huge amounts of taxpayers' money to get this far, government officials insist they will not give up.

They will start putting together a new compulsory purchase order for the area around Edge Lane.

But the judge's decision massively delays the controversial scheme to widen the road and build a new community next to it.

If Ms Pascoe and other residents object to the new CPO, another costly, time-consuming public inquiry will be held - with no guarantee that the order would then be agreed.

But government officials are confident of eventual success because the original CPO was thrown out of court due to a error in the way it was worded.

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