Unesco strips Liverpool waterfront of its world heritage status

The United Nations Heritage body have said that years of development have caused ‘irreversible loss’ to historic value of Liverpool’s Victorian docks. So Liverpool’s much valued world heritage status, which it gained in 2004, has now been stripped.

This an awful blow to such a lovely city. But it is a warning that Cambridge and similar historic and treasured cities should heed.

Cambridge is facing many massive development projects within and around the city. From large scale developments such as the train station development that has been rightly condemmed as “an embarrassment to the city”, to small quirky historic pubs like the much loved Flying Pig pub that is to be demolished for office blocks, to the upcoming NECAAP development on track to become the neighbourhood with the highest density of housing in Europe. It seems developers are free to profit from piling concrete block on concrete block and our city suffers.

Still at least Anglian Water will be building a Discovery Centre so that people can view the sewage works they are placing on greenbelt land.

Cambridge deserves better.

One Reply to “Unesco strips Liverpool waterfront of its world heritage status”

  1. It’s Hills the Developer. Make billions out of our beautiful city by giving a few pods for the homeless. Then be given all the other contracts for building houses in the whole area.

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