WORKERS planning to start bulldozing houses as part of the Edge Lane road-widening scheme were yesterday served with an injunction preventing them from doing so.

The demolition work was set to commence at numbers 30 to 36 Edge Lane at 8am this morning.

But local resident, 60-year-old grandmother Elizabeth Pascoe, who has already taken similar action against the demolition of homes in another part of the area, sought new legal intervention after hearing about the impending work.

If the demolition goes ahead, the council and other parties involved with the scheme could be found in contempt of court.

“Elizabeth Pascoe quite rightly took action and sought a legal injunction scheduled for this morning.”

Ms Pascoe said: “I have acquired a holding injunction on the demolition we found out about on Friday afternoon.

“Someone is expected to be on site to inform the workers with a written notification.”

Ms Pascoe, of Adderley Street, in Kensington, went to the High Court after Liverpool Land Development Company announced it was to start demolishing 265 derelict properties in the Edge Lane West area, including her own home.

In October, just hours before demolition work was to start on the homes, solicitors acting on Ms Pascoe’s behalf served an injunction on all the organisations involved in the project, including the Northwest Regional Development Agency and Liverpool City Council. Ms Pascoe went to the High Court over the scheme, claiming a compulsory purchase order (CPO) forcing her to leave her home breached her human rights. She also argued that English Partnerships, which wants to demolish hundreds of homes to make way for a wider road into Liverpool city centre, did not have the power to make the CPOs.