Overview

Edge Lane is a main road running from the periphery of Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

 city centre at Hall Lane, West towards the M62 motorway

M62 motorway

The M62 motorway is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting the cities of Liverpool and Hull via Manchester and Leeds. The road also forms part of the unsigned Euroroutes E20 and E22...

's 'Rocket Junction'. Edge Lane technically comprises two roads, that of 'Edge Lane' and that of 'Edge Lane Drive' and passes through the districts of Old Swan

Old Swan

Old Swan is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. It is located fairly centrally in the city, bordered by Stoneycroft, Broadgreen, Fairfield and Wavertree...

, Kensington

Kensington, Liverpool

Kensington is an inner city area of Liverpool, England. It is located immediately to the east of Liverpool city centre, and is bordered by Everton to the north, Fairfield to the east and Edge Hill to the south....

, Wavertree

Wavertree

Wavertree is an area of Liverpool, in Merseyside, England, and is a Liverpool City Council ward. It is bordered by a number of districts to the south and east of Liverpool city centre from Toxteth, Edge Hill, Fairfield, Old Swan, Childwall and Mossley Hill....

 and Edge Hill. It forms part of the A5047.

Notable buildings and places on Edge Lane

• Edge Lane Retail Park
• Littlewoods Pools building
  Littlewoods Pools building
  The Littlewoods Pools building is a notable building on Edge Lane in Liverpool. The building is a listed example and is next to the Wavertree Botanic Gardens....
  
  
• The Grange
  The Grange (Kensington)
  The Grange is a notable building in Edge Lane, Liverpool.The Grange was used as a TA Centre by 4 Para until 1999, with an ACF detachment of the same regiment moved to Knotty Ash in 2000. The Grange then became a museum for the Liverpool Scottish regiment until 2008.The Botanic Road section of The...
  
  
• Wavertree Botanic Park and Gardens
  Wavertree Botanic Park and Gardens
  Wavertree Botanic Gardens is an example of a mid 19th century public park. It incorporates an earlier walled botanic garden, founded by William Roscoe as Liverpool Botanic Garden and relocated from land near Mount Pleasant in the 1830s...
  
  

Further Information

Edge Lane is currently undergoing significant development, known as the Edge Lane project; however this development is extremely slow going, a development aimed at the Liverpool city of culture (2008), has not yet been completed.

The road itself is mostly dual carriageway, but is renowned for rush hour

Rush hour

A rush hour or peak hour is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest. Normally, this happens twice a day—once in the morning and once in the evening, the times during when the most people commute...

 congestion, and is best avoided at peak times. Bus routes 6 and 7 (to Warrington and Huyton respectively) run the full length of the road.

There is a large leisure park on the route containing various amenities such as a cinema, bowling alley

Bowling

Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...

 and fast food

Fast food

Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a...

outlets.

The road narrows to a single lane at the west end where most of the buildings either side can be seen boarded up in preparation for demolition after being purchased by Liverpool city council under a compulsory purchase order. Work on this part of the development was seriously delayed when the compulsory purchase order was challenged in the high court on a technical matter by one property owner - effectively ending the development until it was resolved. In the meantime the properties were given a fresher look for the capital of culture year (2008) by being covered in colourful decorated boarding showing images culturally important to the city...however it has been noticed that many of the images do look like figures pointing sawn off shotguns at passing motorists and the boards have now themselves fallen into disrepair which makes the approach to Liverpool from the East look particularly uninviting.

The long-delayed demolition process began on the derelict buildings along Edge Lane in July 2010.