BELLE VALE PARK
Landscape consultants are drawing up a scheme for the improvement of Belle Vale Park. Ray Kirkham is the Society's representative on the panel which has been set up to assist the consultants.

THE LEE VALLEY MILLENNIUM CENTRE
The long-awaited and very impressive new community centre in Childwall Valley Road - close to Belle Vale Park - is to be opened by the Duke of Gloucester on 2nd May. Part-financed by the Millennium Commission, it incorporates a City Council community library, a cafe (soon to offer internet access at £1 an hour) and a well-equipped Drop In Study Centre (the Lee Valley DISC) which will offer courses in first aid, computing and other subjects. Enquiries to 0151-288 8326.

NEWFORGE SITE: LATEST NEWS
Morrison Developments have submitted revised plans (though still only in outline form) for the former Spam factory site alongside Belle Vale shopping centre. The size of the proposed supermarket has been increased, and the number of parking spaces has been reduced (though customers will, of course, be able to use the existing Belle Vale shoppers' car park). The new layout appears to be more 'pedestrian friendly' than the original scheme, though we are still unhappy about the inclusion of a petrol filling station so close to the residential properties in Belle Vale Road.