Liverpool has unveiled the UK’s first heritage focused progression plan to shape a billion-pound regeneration program at its historic docks.
The city’s mayor, Joe Anderson, presented the North Shore Vision document this morning to a virtual audience, which included top UNESCO representatives, saying that Liverpool is up to the challenge of safeguarding its World Heritage status.
There have recently been considerations about the proposed new stadium for the £ 500 million Everton FC at Bramley-Moore Dock and the effect it could have on the city’s World Heritage status.
In a webinar, attended by Dr. Isabelle Anatole-Gabriel, Head of the Europe and North America Unit at the World Heritage Center, Mayor Anderson said North Shore Vision would make Liverpool “a foreign beacon for heritage-oriented progression “.
North Shore Vision is the first UK progression document to be adopted by the United Nations for Sustainable Progression and UNESCO’s own style for the progression of Historic Cityscapes.
The vision will be used to advise the long-term expansion of 260 acres of infected land, largely deserted, in one of the poorest parts of the UK.
This domain encompasses the waters of Liverpool Peel L&P and the Ten Streets district, and is almost exclusively within the city’s World Heritage site and its buffer zone.
The vision evolved through a consortium of plan-making professionals, designers, and heritage experts, adding the city’s World Heritage team, Task Force, and World Heritage Steering Group, therefore, as representatives. of Historic England, DCMS, RIBA and the University of Liverpool.
The North Shore vision will be officially followed through Liverpool City Council, which commissioned the document as a component of a painting program in response to the city’s UNESCO World Heritage directory on the threat sign in 2013.
A key player in the region, Everton Football Club, has already informally used the vision to formulate proposals for its new football stadium, which will require a pier component to be filled.
The North Shore webinar, to be held in the spring before the start of the COVID-19 shutdown, included keynote speakers including Sir Neil Cossons, former President of Historic England.
In addition to Dr. Anatole-Gabriel, representatives of UNESCO and its advisory body, ICOMOS, also participated.
They heard Mayor Anderson reaffirm that Liverpool’s World Heritage status, which was awarded to the city in 2004, is of great importance to the city and that UNESCO fears about tall buildings in Liverpool’s waters have dissipated. .
Mayor Anderson, who last week governed a zipline in some other component of the city’s World Heritage site, said the allocation “is far from its original global concept”, adding that thanks to nearly a billion pounds of investment in the site has never been in better shape.
He also praised Manchester developer Peel L&P for joining North Shore Vision, which he said would “balance the wishes of a developing city while protecting our World Heritage status. “
Liverpool claims to have taken many steps to protect and its World Heritage site since it was inscribed on the Hazards Register in 2013, such as:
Mayor Anderson said: “Liverpool has struggled, publicly, with the concept of balancing the economic desire to grow with the desire to respect the legacy of those exclusive but dilapidated docks.
“We have listened to UNESCO’s considerations and have spoken with Peel L&P to see how those considerations can be addressed by compromising the ambition that we all have to expand this area.
“The result is the vision of the North Shore and will play a key role in the multi-billion-pound rebirth of this region over the next several decades, creating thousands of jobs.
“I am firmly convinced that the way this has developed will make Liverpool a foreign beacon of heritage-driven regeneration. “
He added: “I want to thank everyone interested in preparing all of this. Their timing is perfect.
Joe Anderson
“For the first time in 50 years, investments are starting to occur on our North Shore, from Ten Streets and Liverpool Waters to Bramley-Moore Pier.
“The first signs of this replacement have to do with residential developments at Princes Dock and Central Docks, a new ferry terminal, and investments in new roads and infrastructure.
“Additionally, the Stanley Dock renovation is a shining example of how the city’s historic buildings can be remodeled to reflect the wishes of the new Liverpool and stimulate new expansions and jobs.
“The style is transparent and thanks to the North Shore vision, we are refining this technique and preparing it for others to inform themselves.
Darran Lawless, Liverpool Waters Development Director at Peel L&P, said: “We are very happy to see the North Shore vision despite everything revealed today.
“We have been running in the background with partners for almost a year, sharing our ambitions and concerns, thinking about how to engage with our local, national and foreign audiences and deliver on our collective ambitions.
“We have shamelessly shared our virtual assets and the history of our conversion plans, like others, to create a unique de facto way of delivering our vision of Liverpool Waters, not in isolation, but as an integral component of it. North Shore Ambition.
“Together with the City Council, Everton FC and other partners, we need to breathe new life into the docks by creating thousands of jobs, new homes and a destination for sports, tourism and recreation facilities. global elegance to attract new business. and investment opportunities.
“As we grapple with post-pandemic challenges, we are confident that these collaborative and partnership paintings will be a foreign example of heritage-based and inclusive regeneration and growth. “