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Article: 57% rise in city centre living; Call for more schools, shops and parking to meet demand.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2005
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Byline: BY SAM LISTER Daily Post Staff
LIVERPOOL'S city centre population will rise by a staggering 57% over the next decade, the Daily Post can reveal.
Research predicts a boom in urban dwellers with an extra 9,000 expected to flock to new up-market developments.
But experts warned the wave of new homes must sit alongside community facilities such as schools, shops and green space, as well as parking, or they could end up as little more than desolate reminders of over-ambitious regeneration.
In a switch from the current trend of younger professionals, the majority of the new influx will be made up from the over-50s and families.
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