When Simon Abrams arrived in Everton as a new GP in 1997, he remembers a display of plans hanging up in the Great Homer Street sports centre.
Focussed around regenerating parts of the local area where his medical practice was based, he recalls how the proposals were to be drawn up by consultants with the help of six figure funding. What was being visualised never came to fruition.
For more than a decade, according to Simon, the sports centre display encapsulated how much needed change was being delivered in the area. “Lots of money being spent and not a lot being achieved,” he says, thinking back to his early years working in the community.
