Editing Toxteth (section)

===Welsh Streets===
{{main|Welsh Streets, Liverpool}}
By 1850, over 20,000 Welsh builders worked in Liverpool who required housing and land in Toxteth was leased for housing development.<ref name="livecho_bbcdoc_may16">{{cite news |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/history-toxteths-terraced-streets-focus-11378347 |title=History of Toxteth's terraced streets is the focus of new BBC documentary |work=Liverpool Echo |date=26 May 2016 |access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref> The Welsh Streets were designed by [[Richard Owens (architect)|Richard Owens]]<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/en/AboutGlyndwrUniversity/Newsandmediacentre/Newsarchive/PressReleases2015/welshstreetsgarethcarr/|title = Glyndŵr University academic backs bid to save Liverpool's historic Welsh Streets|date = 29 June 2015|work=Glyndŵr University|access-date = 28 November 2015}}</ref> and built by David Roberts, Son and Co.<ref name="liv-welsh">{{Cite web|url = http://www.liverpool-welsh.co.uk/archive/The%20Welsh%20Builders.pdf|title = The Welsh Builder in Liverpool|first=Dr. Gareth|last=Carr|work=Liverpool Welsh|access-date=28 November 2015}}</ref> Through this collaboration, Owens designed over 10,000 terraced houses in the city of Liverpool, particularly those in the surrounding Toxteth area where the Welsh Streets are located.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ymliverpool.com/welsh-connection-liverpool/31513|title=The Welsh Connection: How Wales has helped shape Liverpool|first=Christine|last=Toner|publisher=YM Liverpool|date=23 February 2018}}</ref> The streets were named after Welsh towns, valleys and villages and were built for Welsh migrants, by Welsh builders. Musician [[Ringo Starr]] was born in 9 Madryn Street, where he lived until the age of 4 before moving to [[10 Admiral Grove]].<ref name="ringostarrhome_reconstruction">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1498706/Ringo-Starrs-old-house-to-be-taken-down-and-stored-as-11-streets-are-demolished.html |title=Ringo Starr's old house to be taken down and stored as 11 streets are demolished |publisher=The Telegraph |first=Charles|last=Clover |date=19 September 2005 |access-date=1 December 2018}}</ref>

Council survey data published in 2005 showed the Welsh Streets were broadly popular with residents and in better than average condition, but were condemned for demolition because of a perceived 'over-supply' of 'obsolete' terraced houses in Liverpool. The proposals have divided the local community.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4563957.stm |title=City's Welsh streets face threat|publisher=BBC News|date=20 May 2005|access-date=2 February 2009|first=Clare|last=Gabriel}}</ref> Following unsuccessful demolition plans in 2013, Voelas Street was the first in 2017 to be fully refurbished and offered for rent to tenants. Popularity of the scheme would determine whether further regeneration of the other streets would be undertaken, with later refurbishment work undertaken on Rhiwlas Street, Powis Street, Madryn Street, and Kinmel Street.