Unesco is due to decide whether or nor Liverpool will be stripped of its World Heritage status later this week, after the city was awarded the title in 2003.
In 2012, Liverpool was placed on Unesco’s ‘endangered’ liss, following Peel L&P’s £5bn Liverpool Waters project being given the go-ahead.
However, in a last-ditch attempt to change Unesco’s mind, Steve Rotheram and Joanne Anderson, among others, signed an open letter inviting Unesco to Liverpool to be convinced that the city “should be shown up as an exemplar of best practice in heritage-led regeneration”
“We would like to make it absolutely clear that the city does not want to lose this status,” the letter states.
“Deletion…would be a missed opportunity in demonstrating to the world that heritage and regeneration are not mutually exclusive.”
