Big blow to Liverpool and yet further questions about the city’s development policy and management in recent years.
https://twitter.com/liamthorpecho/status/1417780798158147586
Liverpool becomes only the third place in the world to completely lose its UNESCO status. Quick googling tells me the other two were the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Oman and the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany.
That said some there will argue that UNESCO were saying Liverpool had to be frozen in aspic when the city wanted/needed to develop. It’s a tension which has been brewing for years.
Takes the number of World Heritage sites in the UK down from 32 to 31.
Liverpool @MetroMayorSteve says it’s a “retrograde step that does not affect the reality of what’s happening on the ground” and that “places like Liverpool should not be faced with the binary choice between maintaining heritage status or regenerating left behind communities.”
@MayorLpool Joanne Anderson: “I’m hugely disappointed and concerned by this decision to delete Liverpool’s World Heritage status, which comes a decade after UNESCO last visited the city to see it with their own eyes.”
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