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ah ah, there's anger in liverpool after the english city lost the coveted unesco world heritage status. the human body is meeting in china to decide what fight should be added or removed from its list. but what are the criteria and this politics involved? this is inside story. ah, ah. hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammered. jim john, in a huge setback for liverpool, the united nations cultural body unesco has stripped the english city of its world

heritage status. the decision came after concerns about development in the city, particularly along liverpool waterfront, being put on us goes world heritage list often leads to huge financial rewards through investments and tourism. but losing it could also have the opposite effect . the heritage list includes globally recognizable sights including egypt, pyramids and the great wall of china, unesco committee meeting and china. this year is considering 17 other cultural and natural fights to add to its list this year. need barker has reaction from liverpool after you. ness goes decision, it is the city that kept the british empire afloat. it's 1900 century edifice, is a testament to generations of global trade and commerce. a time when britain ruled the waves for 17 years liberals iconic waterfront stood alongside india's taj mahal and the great wall of china, of the united nations world heritage list. but maternity brought changes that armed

to every one's liking. in a recent meeting in china, unesco said new developments had ruined the city's historic skyline destroying liverpool heritage value. the city is one of only 3 to be stripped of its heritage status. in the past 50 years. the water frowned and the 12 dog clowns of the did. they have been inscribed because they're reflect that conveys history. all major work trading city, paul, just from the 17 and 18 century. so feeling the dog, for example, of building high buildings totally change the way it is best. see this history faster. 7 and a half $1000000000.00 water from projects been cited as a cause for concern. so to has the power to build everton football clubs, new riverside stadium,

viewed by some of the act of cultural vandalism. and this is a huge area of land that's been earmarked for development. liverpool city leaders favored it is in comprehensible why unesco would won't they, semi derek dog shut off from the rest of the city to remain a wasteland for evermore. many liverpool feel the cities being forced to make a binary choice between preserving his heritage status and reviving and developing, deprived and deadly parts of the city. unesco. want this place to just stay as a post industrial ghost town. we can allow that happen as a city, the area that they stock is with it and is incorrect award, which is one of the most deprived wards, not only within liverpool, but in the entire country. there is of course much more to liverpool than its unesco status to continue

attracting tourist 10. i point to the economic value from having that status over the last 17 years. very little do i think we will lose investment or visitors because of losing the plaque. know, will we be a will her to site know where would be a will class? heritage city. yes. losing unesco status is undeniably a cultural blow for this historic city. liverpool will no longer be opposed to char preservationists, but this is a living city that's undergoing massive changes to transform some of the most deprived parts of the country, creating tensions between liverpool, historic past and its potential future. the bulk al jazeera, liverpool. all right, let's have a look at some of the sites being considered for unesco. is world heritage list of the 17 up for consideration 9 are in europe including the italian city of bologna,

which wants its famous porticos. recognized. 2 are from south america, including the chin, children, mummies, in chile, they were buried 2000 years before egypt, mummies and chill, a once that known. but some locations already on the list. risk being downgraded, environmentalists are supporting a bit to put australia as great barrier reef on the danger list because of climate change. while ethiopia, as 11th and 12th century rock hewn churches at valley, bella are in need of urgent restoration. the. let's bring in our guess in liverpool, trevor skimped and is member of the mercy side, civic society and also liverpool world heritage. steering group into ha, i'm going to i'm professor of history and anthropology at shawnee state university . and also in liverpool. michael parkinson, honorary professor at the university of liverpool and ambassador of the heseltine

institute for public policy practice and place a warm welcome to you all. and thanks for joining us on inside story today. trevor, let me start with you today. were you surprised at all by this decision by unesco to remove manchester from its world heritage lists and also can liverpool appeal this decision or is it final? right. the 1st thing is then it's been coming for a while, so we weren't surprised, but we were a bit shocked that had been no real listening to the points that lyrical had made. i mean, i'm a member of the mercy shine civic society. and i was an advisor of the safety at the time that it got welters had status when that document was produced in 2004 it,

it was based on the 17th 18th and 19th century history of the city. and it was closely argued around a lot of detail in the subsequent years. people have looked at the so called buffer 7, which is the entire city center and started worrying about the skyline. the skyline of the city noticed livable. skyline is a 20th century skyline. when it was the, the 1st european city to build the american skyscrapers alive, a building being the most famous and alive, a building we can totally sell his building and europe for 20 years. this isn't ancient history. this is the ongoing development of the say to the live a building was actually built in a form of dark and little post development. as a living city has cast as any very carefully recorded and note,

it's an ongoing process. little blends and i represent the mostly scientific society, a very proud of the heritage. and i don't think any city has spent more money and time of looking after each heritage the liverpool s. so it comes as a shock, but it wasn't a surprise. we knew we sort of saw it coming. michael, you wrote in a piece that liverpool had been treated unfairly in relation to other world heritage cities and its unique urban history of development has not been recognised . how in your opinion, has liverpool been treated unfairly compared to other heritage cities? well, the most obvious example is london, which has gone out of his status on the top bridge. and it's surrounded by some skyscrapers world. but because it's in london, unesco, obtaining a very different line, they said 50 years ago and i've done nothing about it. so that's wrong,

very clear difference in the united kingdom. the 2nd thing is, you know, most of us goes sites are on the monument. so not for science, they're not very good dealing with cities and sickies and on the check is not a museum. it develops and changes it has to. it grows and it's heritage changes. and so you're not always have difficulty deciding what is right, what is wrong. it's true, i tried to sit in 2007 because it had to put a new bridge. so unesco is not very good on this. but the really key points on all of this. some keeps getting messed. this is not a question of do you like this building all that building all the other building? it's most advisors to nascar, said liverpool had all ready damaged,

irretrievably. outstanding, universal value off the site. that is simply not true. 10 years ago the city was gonna build shy 1000000. there's lots of ice blocks. no one has been built actually in the site. there's a low rise building. and if you saw the movie that you're calling me yesterday in the start, this has been data for 50 years. so you're not to say, we're worried that you much damage the site, but they can't say you already have. so as a matter of fact, they are wrong. on the other issue, which is the evidence football stadium, they've said if you feeling that you've lost the upstanding universal value. well, i can tell you, your movie showed the peer head and the 3 graces. they all stand on

in fil, doc. liverpool historically as always, feel in docs back as well. have it in addition, ever who goes, i think at stake him in a really unattractive part of the area. operating 10 percent of the 500 need on investment to invest in 2 major, her risk of falling. so the 3rd part, michael, i'm, i'm sorry. i'm sorry to interrupt you, let me, let me get back to the 3rd point you're making in just a moment because i want to, i want to throw a question on this way real quick. i'm a what we're talking a lot about the, you know, the processes that are involved in, in a site being selected as a world heritage site. what does that process like for obtaining unesco world heritage status? who initiates it? is it a very lengthy process and do politics play a role in it as well?

i would say all threes is probably the answer. it's likely for there are 10 criteria used to be and i think 4 or 6 before and used to be 6 actually for cultural heritage side. and then he was increased unified to 10 criteria whether it's a natural light or a cultural heritage site. and usually it often the city itself will try to promote itself will promote a fit aspect or area that he wants to include. he wants to have added. they will work with the committee to, to, to make sure that it meets the criteria. but you're looking at liverpool, she's raising, i mean, i very much with what your, your to guests are saying. and i just, i mean, i know who did the school and i'm

a little full support to, you know, kind of what i think that it's because of every to them like and, but anyway, sort of most theory. the point is fish. it's in a way, it's all unfortunate that what ended up being the center piece, why level, who got that designation in 2004 was the very docs themselves. and i'm the waterfront. obviously it's not just waterfront but and that part is really very much as your your guests are in need of the generation are in the this is a living, vibrant, changing volume, growing city. and it's a real challenge for cities like live, like president and elsewhere, to kind of hold that balance. and perhaps the biggest question should be,

should cities, you know, put themselves in that not a better of maybe not having to carry that burden, at least not in terms of, you know, an area like that. you know, like, like the doc areas and say, okay, i'm going to build my image and then find themselves years down the road that they are unable to keep that promise. i mean, it's a difficult issue. i told you something. trevor, a few moments ago michael in his answer started to talk about the new everton stadium that's being planned. unesco is said that it was not consistently consulted on changes to construction plans within that area of manchester. and they went on to say that these developments, including that planned stadium, resulted in serious deterioration of the historic site. what's your reaction to that? well, there is, there is

a small area of controversy. and that is that some of say water and brand new modem is removed. now, as i say, spending a lot of money to make sure that all the decisions on the building of the stadium technically reversible. so if you wanted to put aside back to its present situation, that will be possible. they, they base a dock, it's going to be under the stadium being preserved before the se, in his belt, so that they could be technically reconstructed in the future. the, the main thing is that ever turn liaised very closely with historical sizes including historic in a painstaking process, they put probably 50 or 50000000 out of the 500000000 cost. the stadium is directly related. as michael said before to conservation matches,

as i can see of benefits for themselves in having conservation credibility. they're opening the site and the riverside to the public for the 1st time ever isn't mash. it's a massive game. so the safety and fame bent over backwards including lowering the higher the stadium so it's no higher than the nearby back to warehouse. so quite high they jump through every hope you can imagine. but unfortunately, us and unesco have turned a deaf ear to this. the stadium hasn't even started work on site yet. it's to to, is to take jump the gun. they haven't really lesson. and they looked at the mountain and documents that have it and provide it not short of money. they've been prepared to provide some money. not just for the new stake in the 53000 fans in the

1st phase, but also for a massive conservation work which was done otherwise. it's all part of a, it's all part of the same story. you develop your conserves and in the city which has to go on living, you have to combine the toe. there's no other way and you asked of the beginning whether the scope for appeal. there's no scope for level to appeal because unesco of facing in the completely wrong direction. they're not, not listen to us. they say last visit the safety in 2000. that 9 was they already decided then the test was the sort of world heritage site that they really wanted. so i never post day is when none but at the beginning. but if you, if you come to liverpool now, and you compare it with liverpool in 2004, the whole loop heritage side which include 6 areas which the docs north dr. anyone

improvement is in comparable, including. so the most rigorous of conservation would love building facts in georgia. so like the out, the doc trevor cannot build trip. i'm family dog. i'm so i'm certainly just jevar. i'm sorry to interrupt you. we are just starting to run out of time. i will get back to this point you were making, michael, let me go to you. trevor was talking about, you know, essentially how this is a, a very delicate balance when you're talking about a living city, wherein lies a world heritage site. let me ask you from your vantage point, how do you go about achieving this delicate balance of preserving the past, but also planning for the future. i mean, how should cities be able to celebrate and preserve their histories while also being able to rebuild? so they can prosper, going forward. ok, so we're going to speak quickly. i don't want to waste your time. heritage is not

about buildings. it's also about culture values. and so you build upon that, that's part of our heritage. we went to the buildings. it was because we were the center of the british empire, and the city mentioned on the century. so it's a found values as much as been fixed. that said, in terms of buildings come to little, there is musson doc warehouse was renovated 20 years ago. actually, brilliant, huge subtraction. got a museum, a gallery in it. there are just the talk at the stanley dog in the north stock side, a huge investment of a wonderful chow, an appalling block. what you do is quality. your master is got to worry about it quality and what city need to do. it carries people with it as a consult, 50000 people. 95 percent. yes. want consumption. people be true to values. be all

thing to do quality work and whether it's new or small. i then becomes a matter of tasting preference. i can mix unesco frankly to which you don't miss and care about your colleagues, doug. all, i absolutely agree, frankly, we didn't want to lose his status, but now we are relieved. it has become a huge burden dealing with, you know, the transaction costs are too high. and frankly, the city cannot go on year off the being the public headlines because it fails to meet some unreasonable standards. they said 3 years ago. you must build nothing in the city until we approve your plans sustain all to leap every day. that's my point on this right. i'm or you heard michael there talk about the cost of all of this when it comes to having a world heritage site maintaining it. let me ask you how, how costly is it?

who is ultimately responsible for it? does unesco play a role in this, or is it more the country where the, where the site is, or is it a combination of both? ultimately it's the country. i mean it's the state that age because remember, yes, it is a club member space. so each state he's responsible for on site now, unesco might have funded made or expertise or resources that can sometimes push to what some of the sites and some of the members say to help maintain. but by and large, it's the responsibility of the members say to ensure that it sites are kept in good order preserved in the appropriate manner and to the standards required specially they are under the school heritage sort of designation. and that's how it's always been the in terms of the costs. yes. obviously it can be,

especially again the point you know, areas, urban centers and bigger events and may have been times as likely like like manchester and anywhere else in the world in rome, italy, in rome, parents, these are very complex and difficult places to maintain a new car, a huge resources. so it's a 3rd question to arc as well and say, you know, if it's a cost benefit analysis at the end of the day, and to look at which parts you want to preserve in which part you might think it's not necessarily. you know, it's more important to develop and something like the docs. well, you know, it's up to the people who live perhaps and make that decision not to buy the pyramids. we're not talking about palmyra and the template bell. we're not talking about much peach. we're talking about the 19th 20th century

bank in 20th century docs. right. i don't know it for me it's it's, it's a pity the limit login to lose that. but i can also see the point that your guess we're making as well. right. trevor, are you concerned that liverpool is going to be losing investment or visitors because of losing the world? heritage status. now i don't think that will happen. i think it already been said let liverpool, it's regenerating itself. it's. it was in a very dark place. 2030 years ago, the city was a shrinking safety. it was regarded as a basket case, but it has come back with a vengeance. and in the middle of that, renee sumps in liverpool is conservation of a history. that's why this is, is such

a ridiculous thing to have and, but it's not important in terms of the, the label of world heritage site. it's regrettable it's, it's gone, but it's not going to make much difference. can i just make one more point relation to what michael said about london? london made an impulsive decision when it, when the tower of london and the palace of websites that were declared, well heritage sites. london refused to accept buffer zones around the liverpool problems have come because they were very wide buffer zone. that's where all these told all it's all buildings. nobody's ever proposed a total building within the world to cite itself. so if we go back to the original document, we'll remove the word unesco from it completely, but we'll proceed on the basis of looking up to the heritage in the best way we possibly can. new developments will provide some of the finance and the way with

those to do that. all right, well we have run out of time, so we're going to have to leave the conversation here. thank you so much. all of our guests. trevor skimped and i'm a 1000 and michael parkinson and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website of 0 dot com. and for further discussion, go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha, inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter. our handle is at a inside story from him, how much i'm doing in the whole team here, bye for now. the news ah, ah ah,

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