Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)

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1. Story
2. Six areas of Liverpool's historic centre and docklands, inscribed in 2004 as testimony to the city's role in world trade and in the movement of people — including the transatlantic slave trade and mass emigration. Placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2012 over the proposed Liverpool Waters development, the property saw that scheme and other construction proceed inside the site and its buffer zone. On 21 July 2021, at the 44th session held in Fuzhou, China, the Committee voted 13 in favour, 5 against, with 2 abstentions — one vote above the two-thirds threshold — to delete the property for 'the irreversible loss of attributes conveying the outstanding universal value'. It is the third and most recent deletion. Liverpool contested the decision and has continued to develop the waterfront.
3. Knowledge
4. List of World Heritage in Danger
5. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
6. Liverpool
7. Connections
8. Liverpool
9. List of World Heritage in Danger
10. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
11. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
12. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
13. Raw cotton
14. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
15. The census records an urban majority
16. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
17. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
18. Venice and its Lagoon
19. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
20. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
21. Timbuktu
22. Site of Palmyra
23. Galápagos Islands
24. Angkor
25. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
26. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
27. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
28. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
29. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
30. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
31. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
32. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
33. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
34. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
35. Evidence
36. 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).