The Eldonian dream: Inside the fight for Liverpool’s community housing utopia

Eldonian village was a forerunner in neighbourhood regeneration. Thirty years on it is fighting for survival

It was the utopian housing dream, a community project designed to support its residents from cradle to grave – 400 redbrick homes built around a village hall, leisure centre and playing fields, all of it owned and managed by the people who lived there.

The Eldonian village in Liverpool was heralded at the time of its completion by the then Prince Charles as a “leading example of a successful, community-led, bottom-up approach to neighbourhood regeneration”.