Belle Vale, Liverpool

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Belle Vale
Belle Vale, Liverpool (Merseyside)
Belle Vale, Liverpool

Belle Vale shown within Merseyside
OS grid reference SJ337927
Metropolitan borough Liverpool
Metropolitan county Merseyside
Region North West
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LIVERPOOL
Postcode district L25
Dialling code 0151
Police Merseyside
Fire Merseyside
Ambulance North West
European Parliament North West England
UK Parliament Liverpool Garston
List of places: UK • England • Merseyside

Coordinates: 53°23′42″N 2°51′40″W / 53.3951, -2.861

Belle Vale is a district of south-east Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward.

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[edit] Description

Belle Vale area shares borders with Huyton, Netherley, Gateacre and Childwall. The main road in Belle Vale is Childwall Valley Road (B5178) running from Childwall through to Netherley. The old North Liverpool Extension Line (loop line) at the back of Hartsbourne Avenue divides Belle Vale and Gateacre.

Belle Vale District Centre has a number of amenities including a fire station, police station, health centre, large shopping centre [1][2], junior football league and also Belle Vale Park.

As a small district, it is often misrepresented as Childwall or Gateacre, which are larger and more affluent neighbouring suburbs. Liverpool City Council have also left the Belle Vale area in somewhat of a quandary, as from 2005 onwards signs to identify the districts in the city were put up on Childwall Valley Road saying Gateacre (towards the Shopping centre and Netherley) and Childwall (towards Childwall) and none saying Belle Vale. Despite Belle Vale's amenities and established centres bearing it's name, the city council, in their wisdom, refuse to acknowledge the Belle Vale area's existence with local signs.

The postcode for Belle Vale is L25, which is also the postcode for nearby Woolton.

[edit] History

Over one-thousand prefabricated homes were erected in Belle Vale between the years 1945-1947 in order to provide affordable rented accommodation for people whose homes were destroyed in bombing raids on the city during World War II, making it one of the largest Prefab communities in the country.[3]

Its most famous ex-resident is Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket chain. Leahy is also President of the Belle Vale Prefab Project.[4]

[edit] Education

Schools in Belle Vale include Childwall Valley Primary School, Belle Vale Community Primary School and Our Lady of The Assumption Primary School. Plans are currently afoot to relocate Gateacre Comprehensive on part of the Reggie Smith Playing Fields in Belle Vale with work to start in December 2008.

[edit] Transport

Belle Vale has its own mini bus interchange next to the shopping centre on Hedgefield Road connecting to among other areas, Huyton and St Helens eastbound and Woolton and Speke southbound with the main (Liverpool) city centre route on Childwall Valley Road.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Belle Vale Shopping Centre
  2. ^ photograph of shopping centre
  3. ^ Port Cities: Post War housing in Liverpool. E. Chambré Hardman Archive. Retrieved on 13 August 2007.
  4. ^ Belle Vale Prefab Project. Retrieved on 13 August 2007.

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