Unesco World Heritage status - Blame Everton

[PaddyJames]

Local Labour are bad greedy scruffs

 

[summerisle]

What facts? All I see there is sneering contempt. UNESCO's comments are presented as fact, like this.



Yet he doesn't elaborate on what that 'outstanding universal value' is. Which, lest we forget, includes a sewage works and derelict nothing.

Meanwhile, he comes out with nuggets like this, again presented as 'fact':



Which is opinion, subjective. All of it is. The 'three disgraces' next to the 'three graces' etc. is all subjective.

What it comes down to is elitism and archaism. "Old is good, new is bad". UNESCO were against Everton's stadium plans before the plans were even unveiled, which tells you all you need to know about the motivation.

The failed building projects, the head of regeneration suspended, graft and cronyism, lovely sunlit uplands.

 

[Tubey]

The failed building projects, the head of regeneration suspended, graft and cronyism, lovely sunlit uplands.

All true, all used to pad a subjective biased article on a secondary subject.

The article has a core failed argument - it says Liverpool 'deserves' world-class architecture; the problem is it doesn't say how it would get that world-class architecture. And therein lies the issue - UNESCO and this author would prefer the city of Liverpool to do nothing rather than something.

 

[Brianblue]

Is this not the author’s individual opinion?
Like a critic, either food, film, theatre or whatever I tend to think it’s their own view. Yet he gets to write this up and that’s it, what he’s said is taken for the final say on the matter.
Some people like stuff and some don’t. Guess it’s up to the individual.
Yet he’s writing a piece for the guardian so that makes him Billy big balls.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Even UNESCO hates Beneathus

 

[PhilM]

Personally, redeveloping the Liverpool waterfront will bring more benefits, through tourism and money, to the city than maintaining the status quo of the 2000s.

So all in all, it's an unfortunate outcome but it's unlikely to be costly. Liverpool waterfront from the 70s to the mid 00s was dire - they don't mention that.

 

[PaddyJames]

Does this mean we defo won't get one of those huge mechanical spiders bouncing round town again? I'm in.

 

[Lewism]

99% of the world has never heard of Bramley Moore dock.Who funds these lunatics who make these decisions.

 

[larbert toffee]

I for one have just cancelled my 2 quid a month subscription to UNESCO .
Two can play at that game

Nice one Paul you mad rebel.

 

[larbert toffee]

Do people think BMD is going to be a tourist attraction? Other than away fans and maybe gig fans not many people are going to visit the city to go out of their way to go and see it. It's too far out of the way. It might form part of the city-tours bus route but thats it really. People who visit the city to do tourism stuff only really leave the city centre to see Penny Lane/John Lennons gaff etc.

You just never know Paddy what developments will blossom from BMD, the whole area will grow and flourish around the stadium, hopefully there will be a lot of things to attract visitors.

 

[paultheblue]

Nice one Paul you mad rebel.

I transferred the money to the save the African elephant fund mate.
They are dropping one off on Wednesday I'm just hoping the lifts are working as I live on the 13th floor.

 

[Lee Smith]

Scathing.

Liverpool has been vandalising its waterfront for a decade – it’s shocking Unesco didn’t act sooner | Oliver Wainwright

Losing world heritage status has shone a light on the city’s redevelopment from maritime metropolis to pound-shop Shanghai, plagued by allegations of bribery and corruption

www.theguardian.com

What an absolute load of utter drivel that article is. Embarrassingly shoddy “journalism”, written by someone with an obvious axe to grind

 

[larbert toffee]

I transferred the money to the save the African elephant fund mate.
They are dropping one off on Wednesday I'm just hoping the lifts are working as I live on the 13th floor.

Brilliant mate .

 

[Armaghtoffee]

We all go there for the football, the Beatles, the nights out and of course the craic with the locals.

This won’t matter a jot to the city.

 

[Noble Savage]

What an absolute load of utter drivel that article is. Embarrassingly shoddy “journalism”, written by someone with an obvious axe to grind

This bloke has been banging on about Liverpool museum and all sorts for years . He's an architect apparently .