Editing Netherley, Liverpool

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{{Use British English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country                  = England
| coordinates              = {{coord|53.3895|-2.8403|display=inline,title}}
| official_name            = Netherley
| static_image_name        = Shops on Wood Lane, Netherley - geograph.org.uk - 286676.jpg
| static_image_caption     = Shops on Wood Lane, Netherley
| population               = 8,068
| population_ref           = ([[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]])<ref name=2001census />
| metropolitan_borough     = [[Liverpool]]
| metropolitan_county      = [[Merseyside]]
| region                   = North West England
| constituency_westminster = [[Liverpool Garston (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool Garston]]
| post_town                = Liverpool
| postcode_district        = L27
| postcode_area            = L
| dial_code                = 0151
| os_grid_reference        = SJ337927
}}
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'''Netherley''' is an area in the city of [[Liverpool]], [[Merseyside]], [[England]]. It is bordered by [[Belle Vale]] and situated near to [[Huyton]], [[Tarbock]] and [[Halewood]].

Netherley is a leafy suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is in the south of the city surrounded mostly by farmland and countryside, [[Liverpool City Council]] [[Ward (country subdivision)|ward]] of [[Belle Vale (ward)|Belle Vale]]. At the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]], Netherley had a population of 8,068 (3,703 males, 4,365 females).<ref name=2001census>{{citation|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=3&b=561317&c=netherley&d=14&e=16&g=359255&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1211832090515&enc=1|title=2001 Census: Netherley|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=26 May 2008}}</ref>

==Description==
Netherley is predominantly a residential area located on the eastern side of Liverpool and is taken up by 44% green belt which restricts potential industrial growth.<ref name=lcc>{{citation|url=http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/tcm21-32514.pdf|title=South Liverpool Partnership: Netherley & Valley|publisher=City of Liverpool Regeneration Portfolio|date=September 2002|access-date=28 February 2009}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

However Netherley's Caldway Drive is the new location for the Belle Vale Junior Football League which had to relocate from playing fields in nearby Belle Vale to accommodate the building of a new school.

== History ==
Netherley was built on farmland on the edge of [[Gateacre]] in 1968 for tenants moved out of unfit housing in Liverpool city centre.<ref name=40years>{{citation|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/10/01/netherley-40-years-on-a-dream-come-true-100252-21936182/ |title=Netherley 40 Years On: A Dream Come True?|publisher=[[Liverpool Echo]]|date=1 October 2008|access-date=28 February 2009}}</ref>

Lee Manor High School, built in 1970, was originally called Netherley Community Comprehensive School. The school changed its name to Lee Manor High School in the early 1990s and closed in 2000.

Many of Netherley's flats and maisonettes were demolished between 1983 and 1985 to make way for new houses. Lee Valley Housing took over management of council properties in 2003, making improvements to 1,700 homes.<ref name=40years />

==Crime==
The area has a relatively low crime rate and high employment in 2020.<ref name=upmystreet>{{citation|url=http://www.upmystreet.com/local/police-crime/l/L27.html|title=L27 Crime Figures 2007/08|publisher=www.upmystreet.com|access-date=28 February 2009}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!    Crime Figures 2019/20<ref name=upmystreet /> || Liverpool City Council || English average
|-
|    Violence against the person|| 1.5
16.7
|-
|    Robbery offences   || 0.7 || 1.2
|-
|    Theft of a motor vehicle offences  || 0.2  || 2.9
|-
|    Sexual offences ||0.0 || 0.9
|-
|    Burglary dwelling offences ||0.7 || 4.3
|-
|    Theft from a vehicle offences ||0.1||7.6
|-
|}

==Economy==
The area lost a major local employer, HPL Jars & Containers, in 2006. After thirty plus years, it was bought out by M&H Plastics and production was transferred out of the area.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mhplastics.com/text/news/hpl_jars.asp|title=M&H acquires HPL Jars|date=3 April 2006|access-date=14 February 2008}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

== Education ==
[http://www.stgregory.co.uk/ St. Gregory's Catholic Primary School] received an excellent [[Office for Standards in Education|Ofsted]] report in 2005.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/104/s5_104678_20050927.htm|title=St Gregory's Catholic Primary School|publisher=Ofsted|access-date=26 November 2006}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Built at the same time as the local housing, the school has adapted over the years to meet the demands of the area, such as admitting a large number of pupils from Cross Farm School which was closed by the local educational authority due to a surplus of places in the area. The nearby Norman Pannell Primary School is also a popular school in Netherley.

== Other services ==
*Netherley Health Centre 
*Post Office 
*Valley Community Theatre

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==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:CaldwayDriveLiverpool.JPG|Caldway Drive, [[Liverpool]]

File:Netherley Liverpool_-_Jackson_and_Canter_Solicitors_December_1983.jpg|Jackson and Canter Solicitors Offices in Netherley, Liverpool vacated and vandalised, awaiting demolition (December 1983)

File:Netherley_Liverpool_-_looking_towards_Paveley_Bank_-_November_1983.jpg|Paveley Bank, Netherley, Liverpool - housing being demolished (December 1983)

File:Netherley_Liverpool_-_Paveley_Bank_-_December_1983.jpg|Paveley Bank, Netherley, Liverpool vacated and vandalised, awaiting demolition (December 1983)

File:Netherley_Liverpool_-_Tuffins_corner_subway_-_November_1983.jpg|Subway in Netherley, Liverpool vandalised, burned-out car, awaiting demolition (December 1983)
</gallery>

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{commons category|Netherley, Merseyside}}
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/realmedia/local_history/local_history_netherley_another_living.ram Netherley - A Kind of Living] Conditions on Netherley housing estate in the 1970s [[BBC Radio Merseyside]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111004023354/http://www.netherley.co.uk/ Netherley - The old Parish of Little Woolton]

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