Everton seek Council approval for hydraulic tower plans

This is a brilliant example of how a football club can reinforce its roots and integration within the community of its birth.

Compare that to the recent behaviour of certain other clubs. Proud to be a Blue.

Our club is a force for good in this city. I am proud to be an Evertonian, a club with a social conscience. Protecting the tower is a great move, it will be expensive, but money very well spent. Knitting together history and the future is thinking long term and enriches ourselves and our environment. Well done Everton.

A fantastic solution for a building that whilst listed, is presently nothing more than a derelict eyesore.
Everton are clearly intent on breathing new life into a decaying part of the city.

Great initiative.

Expect complaints from English Heritage and UNESCO fairly swiftly

I just wish we were as good on the pitch as we are off it because we're peerless when it comes to this stuff.

Tony - all good things come to those who wait - and I already know your answer to this one.

Proud to be a blue and can’t wait for the day when I can fly back into the city to see all of this in its glory. I hope I last that long!

"To prevent further degradation" - important words and words that one would have expected each of English Heritage, Historic England, UNESCO etc to have as a major aspect of their respective roles. A great shame that their behaviour throughout this saga has shown their priority to be far removed from preventing such degradation.

Perhaps it's the camera lens - but I think we have the Leaning Tower of Vauxhall there...

Paul (8) A marketing ploy! They’ll be flying in from around the globe to see this!

Classy and well thought out approach from the club echoing the development of the Pier Head area which I found absolutely stunning upon visiting after a 20 yr absence.

The blend of contemporary and historic makes the waterfront a truly fabulous area. Well done the blues

It's another step to progressing BMD I would have preferred it to be a pub though (like the Pumphouse) "The Engine Room". Shame, opportunity lost. As it's to be a museum/cafe St Lukes type.

Apparently it will be known as the ESL.
Everton's Superb Landmark.

I was thinking the same David. It would be a great place for a pint on match days.

As that won’t happen, I’d like it to be a museum dedicated in part to the maritime history of the Mersey and, if there’s room, an Everton Hall of Fame (like Cooperstown) full of memorabilia. I’m sure the Doc could lend us some of his magnificent collection.

It also has to have a souvenir and coffee shop. All the arl biddies like a cuppa and a bun before a game

It would have been nice as a pub. It would need copious competition though, otherwise the back of the queue for the bar would be outside the Winslow.

Why can't it be a pub and museum?

A musopub or pubseum? We have them all over the place in Ireland.

It would be perfect for a restaurant, The Leaning Tower of Pizza.

Only on TW could we turn a cultural & historical landmark into an ale house. There’s enough of them everywhere you look. Yes I don’t drink, it’s vile stuff.

Well done Everton for this class proposal, fit for the rest of the site.

A combined museum and café sounds like a great idea for a listed building.
Good news on an excellent St George’s Day after beating Arsenal away at last.

We managed to blend St Luke's Church into the Goodison surrounding, so this should be a piece of cake.

Will stand out from other grounds, especially if we make it into a type of museum, to show off our history.

If only we could find a way to have permission to take Rupert's Tower down, brick by brick, and rebuild it at Bramley-Moore Dock, next to our new stadium, that would be a showstopper, and blend in well, around the dock.

Brian, has anyone applied to do this? If you don’t ask :-)

Does anyone know what is happening to the old dock walls, the gates, and Nelson and Trafalgar plaques, please?

'Through these gates passed most of the 1,300,000 who fled the Great Famine, and 'took the ship' to Liverpool in the years 1845-52.'

'Remember the Great Famine'

Thanks

This shows the class of Everton, and they are doing their very best to harness the history and blend this into BMD.

A very good weekend for Evertonians, all in all.
“What’s Our Name?”

If anyone wants to have a look, the design documents are on the Liverpool City Council Planning site - Application Number 21L/1120

Thanks for that, Paul.

This could be the basis for a truly revolutionary incorporation of Liverpool and global history into the new ground.

If the club can come up with a suitable method of associating itself with the huge global trade which centred on Liverpool, and establish links to the world’s great ports, it could expand its base in a real and relevant manner (ie unlike Chelsea or ManU).

This could involve New York, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Muscat, West Africa, historical Calcutta and Bombay, Shanghai, Rio, Cairo/Suez, Sydney and the rest in some football / shared history manner - maybe through the nationality of the sailors, the cargoes traded or even cultural links (China town, the Somali connection, even the first mosque in Britain). There’s even a Persian connection for Moshiri from when the Cayzer Clan line acquired the Persian Gulf steamship company.

I vote for a Museum/Cafe. It would be nice to have a pleasant family friendly environment to chat and get tea and scones. There are at least half a dozen pubs no more than a 10 min walk away (including the Pump House and others in town) for p*ssheads to get their beer. I'll enjoy a pint in the stadium.. hopefully the concourses will be well designed with lots of amenities. Also, I agree with others here. English Heritage would rather see a building become derelict and fall down than be restored in a pragmatic way. Local Conservation Officers are much the same I have personal experience!

Any New Stadium News?

As a lifelong Everton supporter, living in the south of the country, I look everyday for the latest club news, especially anything regarding the new stadium, about which, among the vast majority of supporters, I am really excited, but have heard absolutely nothing since plans were sent in for the refurbishment of the Hydraulic Tower.

Given the almost universal support for the project, not just amongst Everton supporters, but also from the people in Liverpool, in general, the business community and the wider interests in the whole of the northwest, am I entitled to ask what the hell is holding things up?

Given the huge, wide popularity of the proposal, the need to get the economy going again and people back to work after Covid, why has the work not yet started, and why are we all being kept in the dark?