Liverpool stripped of its World Heritage site status

Held since 2004 Liverpool has been stripped of its World Heritage Status.
Citing new development including the proposed building of Everton FC new stadium as a reason.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.li...l-stripped-world-heritage-status-21104465.amp
UNESCO met in secret at a summit in China (perhaps Wuhenwill get the nod) to reach the decision through a ballot
A sad day and potentially expensive day for the city.

I always thought Liverpool as a world heritage site was a contradiction. A bit like Glasgow being classified as a city of culture.

Do you visit Liverpool much?

I used to pass through it frequently after disembarking from the ferry. It isn’t my favourite city. But it does have some cultural plusses. London of course beats the pants off it.

But of course

Top 3 cities in the U.K.?

Top for what?

Liverpool heritage
Defined as ‘the supreme example of a commercial port at the time of Britain’s greatest global influence’, Liverpool was awarded the global accolade of World Heritage Site status for its rich inheritance of 19th and early 20th century buildings and its pivotal role in world history.

The site is of international significance because:

• Liverpool played a leading role in the development of dock construction, port management and international trading systems in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
• The buildings and structures of the port and the city are an exceptional testimony to mercantile culture.
• Liverpool played a major role in influencing globally significant demographic changes in the 18th and 19th centuries, through its involvement in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and as the leading port of mass European emigration to the New World.

This remarkable legacy of commerce and culture has shaped the city’s historic townscape and created the distinctive character and unique spirit of place that we see and experience today. This spirit of place continues to be the inspiration for the development and growth of Liverpool as a global city for the 21st century.

Attributes of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV)
Liverpool’s Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) as a World Heritage Site stems from its historic role as an eminent international seaport from the early 18th century to the early 20th century. The surviving urban landscape testifies to that role.

Attributes are aspects of the WHS which underpin and express the OUV. They can be tangible – such as buildings or docks, or intangible – such as traditions, a sense of pride or memory. The following attributes for the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City were adopted in 2011:

1. The spirit of innovation illustrated by the architecture, engineering, transport, port management and labour systems created and developed in Liverpool.
2. The buildings and monuments, stories and records that evidence Liverpool’s central role in the development of the British Empire and global trade.
3. The buildings and monuments, stories and records that evidence Liverpool’s central role in global migration.
4. The docks, warehouses, commercial buildings, cultural buildings and dwelling houses and their relationships to each other that illustrate Liverpool’s development as a port city of global importance.
5. The tradition of cultural exchange exemplified by Liverpool’s roles in the development of popular music and as a patron of the visual arts.
6. Plus Ken Dodd and now a Jollibee

Truro
Edinburgh
Liverpool

Never been there myself but as the city gave birth to "The Beatles" ... the rest must was/is OUV and history.

A bit unfair I know, but:

London
London
London

I have to confess I have spent little time in Brum.

Don’t forget this feller. I saw him on my way through Lime Street Station a few years back.

Pre covid days the majority of tourists coming to the UK would almost certainly make London their number one must visit city. The majority of Filipinos I know around the UK would love to live in the capital, its an incredible city

Extracted from the sun(red top lower end rag)

The stretch of road is a real bottleneck the area they appear to be debating is the stretch of road between two roundabouts with Stonehenge stuck in the middle.
Both roundabouts are on a higher level than the lowest point of the road near Stonehenge and I think UNESCO want the tunnel built from these roundabouts which to be fair are a decent distance away from Stonehenge.
The cheaper option appears to be that the low road level is used as the base of the tunnel build the tunnel and then green field bringing the area to a level close to what Stonehenge is.
I would support UNESCO viewpoint on this to be honest.