However, as Liverpool gets demoted, the slate heaps of North Wales have been promoted… An area famed for its slate industry has joined Egypt's Pyramids, India's Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon to become a Unesco World Heritage Site. The slate landscape of north-west Wales has become the UK's 32nd site on the prestigious list after the World Heritage Committee approved the UK bid. They have awarded more than 30 new inscriptions to cultural and natural bids worldwide already this week. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had backed the area's "remarkable uniqueness". It comes after Liverpool lost its World Heritage status earlier in July when the Unesco committee meeting in China ruled development threatened the value of its waterfront. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57986167 The UKs 32 world heritage sites: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (2000) Blenheim Palace (1987) Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church (1988) Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (1986) City of Bath (1987) Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2006) Derwent Valley Mills (2001) Durham Castle and Cathedral (1986) Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987,2005,2008) Gorham's Cave Complex (2016) Heart of Neolithic Orkney (1999) Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda (2000) Ironbridge Gorge (1986) Jodrell Bank Observatory (2019) Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (2004) Maritime Greenwich (1997) New Lanark (2001) Old and New Towns of Edinburgh (1995) Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church (1987) Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (2009) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2003) Saltaire (2001) Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (1986) Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey (1986) The English Lake District (2017) The Forth Bridge (2015) The Great Spa Towns of Europe (2021) The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales (2021) Tower of London (1988)
We were there yesterday. When we left at 8pm the traffic was crawling along. They do need to do something. The guide mentioned the judicial review which has fallen in favour of no tunnel. The media were also there. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...ire-58024139&usg=AOvVaw0fnTctmulQXhPmqCWdv1FM
the trouble is that the medieval sites fall both sides of the road that goes through there (a303) main drag between London/Southampton areas and the south west
It’s a very delicate and sensitive situation down there. I wonder how they will deal with it in the end. The whole region is littered in Neolithic / prehistoric artefacts and monuments. I can see where UNESCO are coming from but whatever is done to deal with the local traffic, it has to suit the locals too?