UNESCO strips English city of Liverpool of its world heritage status

Reuters ^ | July 21, 2021 9:06 AM EDT | Andrew Macaskill

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The English city of Liverpool was removed from UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites on Wednesday because new buildings undermined the attractiveness of its Victorian docks, making it only the third site to be removed from the prestigious list.

Liverpool was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nation’s cultural organisation in 2004, joining landmarks such as the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

After a vote in China by members of its World Heritage Committee, UNESCO said the new buildings in Liverpool were undermining the city’s “authenticity and integrity”.

Liverpool — hometown of the Beatles — was put on the heritage list in recognition of its role as one of the world’s most important ports during the 18^th and 19^th centuries and for its architectural beauty. …

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The threat of being delisted has hung over Liverpool since

2012

after UNESCO warned that plans for flats and offices would destroy the city's skyline.

Plans for Everton football club's new stadium on part of the former docks were approved earlier this year despite objections from conservation bodies.

It may have come as a surprise that they were delisted but it certainly wasn't a surprise that UNESCO was concerned about development plans.

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Dublin, Ireland did something similar when it built its new Point Theater in its former docklands by the mouth of the Liffey River where it enters Dublin Bay. The city is on the “tentative list”, though.

But of course, we’re talking of the pro-“Palestinian” abomination that declared Rachel’s Tomb in Israel to be a mosque, so all I can say is defund UNESCO utterly.

[pepsionice]

We should pull out the Dresden status of a UNESCO site being deleted and how it came to occur.

There was a insider crew from Dresden who pushed for years to get Dresden the sacred status. Things were fine....up to the point where a couple of years passed and the city council wanted a new bridge to lessen traffic problems.

The insider crew demanded to be part of the approval process....the city council said ‘no’. This immediately started a ‘payback’ situation. The new bridge was built, and shortly after that, the deletion occurred. Did anyone really notice the loss of the UNESCO status? No.

This whole UNESCO thing is about building another approval authority, and getting UNESCO approvers bribes/gifts.

[mosesdapoet]

Can’t do it but if someone comes up with before and after pics of skyline would help

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***world heritage status***

What a lame name for communism.

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He He. Yep!

[nickcarraway]

That’ll show those Scousers...

[ChronicMA]

UNESCO is racist. They took this action after new funding for plans to redevelop Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum were announced.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Wasn’t defunding the UN part of the GOP platform of broken promises? Maybe next time they get control.

[Moltke]

World Heritage status = give lots and lots of money to UNESCO.

It’s a scam.

[Wuli]

Who gives a shit what UNESCO thinks???

It’s just another batch of self-righteous self-appointed “international experts”.

[glennaro]

By all accounts the rest of the world should -- better, they must -- consider it of interest only to the members of the World Heritage Committee ... and then only if each member wears a mask.

[Olog-hai]

The RINOs tried really hard to break the promises that Trump ended up keeping, particularly with respect to the communistic, anti-US “United Nations”.

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Because the government here is stealing my and our money to fund that abomination once more. We haven’t rejoined officially, but you know Biden and money . . . he was in a big hurry to fund Hamas again and we all know what happened in Gaza afterward . . .

[minnesota_bound]

The english should have held onto the squalor to keep the title....