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Eugene

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Mon Jun 21, 2021, 06:43 PM Jun 2021

Unesco report says Liverpool should lose World Heritage status

Also: Unesco says Liverpool waterfront should lose heritage status (The Guardian)

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Source: BBC

Unesco report says Liverpool should lose World Heritage status

21 June 2021

A Unesco committee has recommended that Liverpool should lose its World Heritage status.

The threat of Liverpool's demotion has rumbled on for more than a decade after modern developments on the city's waterfront.

Liverpool City Council said about £1.5bn had been invested in upgrading 157 heritage assets.

A final decision will be made when Unesco confirms the sites on its World Heritage List at a meeting next month.

The new report by the World Heritage Committee said "with deep regret" new developments in the city had resulted in "serious deterioration and irreversible loss of attributes".

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-57556884

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Source: The Guardian

Unesco says Liverpool waterfront should lose heritage status

Committee report says city should be removed from world heritage list after ignoring advice on skyscrapers

Robyn Vinter
Mon 21 Jun 2021 19.53 BST

Unesco has recommended Liverpool waterfront be removed from the list of world heritage sites after the city ignored its advice over the development of skyscrapers.

The United Nations heritage organisation will vote at its 44th annual conference next month as to whether to delist the historic port, which was granted Unesco world heritage status in 2004.

The recommendation cited local and national government failure to protect Liverpool from the development of skyscrapers at the docks, something Unesco had been warning about since 2017.

It specifically referred to changes to the £5bn Liverpool waters redevelopment scheme which Liverpool city council did not allow Unesco chance to advise on before the plans were approved.

Liverpool’s representatives have clashed with the organisation over the need to balance economic development with preservation of the historic appearance of the docks, ever since the waterfront was listed as “at risk” in 2012.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/21/unesco-says-liverpool-waterfront-should-lose-heritage-status-over-skyscrapers
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Unesco report says Liverpool should lose World Heritage status (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2021 OP
sounds like no big deal. gotta revitalize when needed nt msongs Jun 2021 #1
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