Once
again Bootle finds itself undergoing major redevelopment being
part of the Atlantic Gateway Strategic Investment Area.
Properties in the Queens Road area that housed many Bootle families
are being demolished and the Heartlands Village project will
take their place. Families that have been moved will have the
option to return.
The front of the Bootle New Strand has also received a face
lift. The old Housing office being the first to be relocated
to a brand new development on the site of a garage which was
formerly the site of the old Metropole Theatre which was destroyed
on the 7th of May 1941 during the second world war.
Another major redevelopment occuring in Bootle is to an area
in Bootle known as the Klondyke area. There were originally
500 houses on this estate and it was built by William Klondyke
Jones at the beginning of the First World War. These houses
were unique because they had an electricity supply system -
however in those early days of electricity it was switched off
at midnight every night. This area of Bootle is a major expanse
of housing near to the Leeds to Liverpool canal and this rebuilding
programme is expected like the Queens Road redevelopment to
take many years.
Overall Bootle itself at Present is currently very much in a
transient period with much change expected over the forthcoming
years.
