Liverpool stripped of world heritage status

I have to admit I have never been to Liverpool apart from playing football at their University. Is all the development detrimental to its historical value?
 
Don’t know the ins and outs of it mind but no one can allow any title to stop them from growing and developing whether that’s for an individual or a city .
 
Redlips said:
Does World heritage status really make that much of difference?
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They lose access to some possible sources of grants and also could be detrimental to their tourism (though I would need convincing that many visitors are drawn by their historic waterfront and not the football teams or pop groups)

I lived in Liverpool in the early 80s for a couple of years and have a lot of affection for the place and people. Their determination to address and correct the Hillsborough lies should not be denigrated by reference to "victim" status. If only the rest of the country stood up to the The Snu and the Tories as effectively.
 
I’d suggest it might affect their tourism, perhaps not immediately but in years to come. As pointed out on here though, a city can’t stop developing for the sake of keeping a title. other than going to watch the Boro I’ve only been to Liverpool once and stayed over. I was really impressed by the place, plenty to do and see and folk seemed friendly.
I‘m not sure what the criteria are for World Heritage Status. Maybe it’s a committee thing.
It just said in the news only two other places have ever been stripped of their status.
 
In October 2004, a Spectator editorial suggested that the death of the hostage Kenneth Bigley was being over-sentimentalised by the people of Liverpool, accusing them of indulging in a "vicarious victimhood" and of possessing a "deeply unattractive psyche".’[48] Simon Heffer had written the leader but, as editor, Johnson took full responsibility for it. Michael Howard subsequently ordered him to visit Liverpool on a "penitential pilgrimage".[49]

With a pedigree like that why would you read it? That from Wiki by the way.
 
Nosmo-King said:
Oh no! A week of Scouse mourning ensues. Victims again - so unfair…..
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Victims of what exactly? From a Tory government, when under the release of official documents planned a managed decline of the city under Thatcher. Or are you referring to Hillsborough where families thought for so long for the truth, having to over turn, coroner's verdicts, and 2 official government enquiries to get it and when they did they disclosed a massive scale cover up and corruption. Do you mean the dockers strike in the fight against causal labour. Liverpool is probably the last red wall which will never be broken by a corupt incompetent, lying, decitful Tory government unlike lots of other places and people.
 
joeydiaz said:
Liverpool is one of my favourite cities, the area around the albert dock is fantastic. The way they have integrated modern buildings with the historical listed buildings is tastefully done and I believe losing its world heritage status is unfair.
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I was the Manchester landscape on a youtube video last yr , if anyone wants to leave London for any reason I can see them ending up there . It’s just getting bigger and better by the looks anyway .
 
So the city was warned nearly a decade ago and still went ahead building really hideous blocks of soulless modern *****. I suppose some might have seen the UNESCO status it as a millstone around their neck and can now push ahead with further redevelopment.

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