By Tom Lowe2021-08-03T06:00:00+01:00
Regeneration will not be halted for the sake of a ‘heritage label’, says Joanne Anderson
Joanne Anderson told Building Design that the city will forge ahead with new developments without being “tied to the conditions of a heritage body with no idea who we are and what we are about”.
Unesco voted 13 to five in favour of removing Liverpool from the World Heritage Register at a meeting in China two weeks ago.
Joanne Anderson said that Liverpool will ‘always be a world heritage city’
The city had been engaged in a decade-long battle with the UN body whose world heritage committee said that too many inappropriate developments had been built around its historic waterfront.
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