Two One Vision Housing (OVH) vacant blocks of flats at Kings Park, Seaforth are set to be demolished this weekend.

The two 14-storey blocks, Churchill House and Montgomery House, will be demolished simultaneously as part of a controlled demolition on Sunday, April 24.

Demolition specialists, J. Bryan (Victoria) Ltd, will bring the blocks down within the site boundary fencing, not affecting any of the surrounding buildings.

An exclusion zone will be set up on the day and all affected properties have been notified.

The evacuation zone perimeter will be patrolled throughout the day by police officers and event stewards.

Local respite amenities will be available from 8am on Sunday, April 24 at: The SING Centre, 53a Cambridge Road, Seaforth, Liverpool, L21 1EX.

For further information about the demolition please contact J. Bryan (Victoria) Ltd, on 0151 424 3229 or visit the One Vision Housing website www.ovh.org.uk

Blowing up two towers within about a maximum radius of 50yards from a railway line and about 15yards from houses would seem like a totally brilliant plan.

Originally Posted by oldduffer

Blowing up two towers within about a maximum radius of 50yards from a railway line and about 15yards from houses would seem like a totally brilliant plan.

They did it with St John's House in Bootle and there were no incidents.

They can bring them down vertically with minimal disruption - the guys that do this are very skilled and can predict how and where everything will fall !

Such blocks have been brought down in busier areas than Seaforth ! You want to watch some of the videos !

Originally Posted by Ruler!1

They can bring them down vertically with minimal disruption - the guys that do this are very skilled and can predict how and where everything will fall !

Such blocks have been brought down in busier areas than Seaforth ! You want to watch some of the videos !

So expert they've failed to demolish either block....http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/...osion-11233278

Hope they took the asbestos out first too!

The demolition company has been working on the flats for the past 3 and a half months to remove all copper pipes water pipes gas pipes and all hazard materials

Originally Posted by Marketnick

The demolition company has been working on the flats for the past 3 and a half months to remove all copper pipes water pipes gas pipes and all hazard materials

Pleased to hear it. I believe that Mersey House is also due to be demolished, that should be easier after the gas explosion in the 1970s attempted to demolish it anyway. The fact that it still stands should have given One Vision and the demolition company the hint that it was better built than many other fifties and sixties tower blocks, such as Ronan Point, which partly collapsed after a gas explosion.
Indeed the difficulty of demolishing the blocks, after recent refurbishment, makes you wonder whether this was the best policy.

Originally Posted by Marketnick

The demolition company has been working on the flats for the past 3 and a half months to remove all copper pipes water pipes gas pipes and all hazard materials

Doubt very much that there would be any " hazardous " cu pipe, or anything else for that matter, left in these blocks after being vacant for so many years,

Local " scrap dealers " will have cleaned up on the salvage from these derelicts long ago.

Most hazardous material to be removed would be the several thousand tons of concrete and structural steel .

Anyway, another prime example of the theory that the lowest tender is always the most economically viable.