Liverpool stripped of Unesco status: could this ‘logical conclusion’ turn out to be a good thing?

Last week, a committee in China voted to strip the city of its World Heritage status, citing ‘irreversible’ damage

The Liverpool waterfront
The Liverpool waterfront lights up blue at sunset on 23 April, 2020
(Image credit: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

For 17 years, the waterfront of my home city of Liverpool has been ranked alongside the likes of the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China as a site of “outstanding value to humanity”, said Imogen Cooper in the Daily Mail. “But no more.”

Why? Because at a meeting 4,894 miles away in China last week, a Unesco committee voted to strip it of its status as a World Heritage Site, citing “irreversible” damage caused by new developments.

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