, ambitions which have led to it being stripped of its unesco world heritage status after a secret valatge and helped attract international tourism. liverpool was chosen because of its history as a trading centre and the splendour of its waterside buildings. it has been removed as unesco believe new development have led to a serious deterioration of landmark liverpool liverpool are playing the victim here. that is not the fault of unesco. this is devastating for liverpool. it's an embarrassment for liverpool, we've lost the status symbol of being up there with the taj mahal, the pyramids and the great wall of china. unesco say a major problem is everton�*s new stadium, which will start being built later this month in a disused dock. liverpool council say the new ground is more important than the world heritage title. i would say it is definitely, because at the moment the dock is completely decaying, it doesn't serve any social value to the community around it. we wanted to open it up, that's what we thought unesco were about as well, putting heritage and out of our community for people