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Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

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The Committee danger listed the property in 2012 over the proposed Liverpool Waters scheme — a very large redevelopment of the northern docks. The listing began a nine-year period in which the United Kingdom and the city were repeatedly asked to constrain development inside the property and its buffer zone, and in which construction nonetheless proceeded.

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  1. Story
  2. The Committee danger listed the property in 2012 over the proposed Liverpool Waters scheme — a very large redevelopment of the northern docks. The listing began a nine-year period in which the United Kingdom and the city were repeatedly asked to constrain development inside the property and its buffer zone, and in which construction nonetheless proceeded.
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  4. List of World Heritage in Danger
  5. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
  6. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  7. Connections
  8. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
  9. List of World Heritage in Danger
  10. Liverpool
  11. List of World Heritage in Danger
  12. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  13. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
  14. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
  15. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
  16. Venice and its Lagoon
  17. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
  18. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
  19. Timbuktu
  20. Site of Palmyra
  21. Galápagos Islands
  22. Angkor
  23. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
  24. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
  25. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  26. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
  27. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
  28. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
  29. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  30. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
  31. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
  32. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
  33. Evidence
  34. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City, inscribed in 2004 and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2012 over the Liverpool Waters development, was deleted in July 2021 'due to the irreversible loss of attributes conveying the outstanding universal value of the property', the Committee finding developments inside the site and its buffer zone detrimental to authenticity and integrity. ALSO: The Committee voted 13 in favour and 5 against with 2 abstentions — one vote above the two-thirds majority required for deletion — making Liverpool the third site ever removed, after the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary (Oman) and the Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany).
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