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Liverpool City Council adopts Supplementary Planning Document for the WHS
On 9th October 2009, Liverpool City Council adopted the Supplementary Planning Document for the WHS after 3 years hard work by many people.International World Heritage Day - 18th April 2009
International World Heritage Day is celebrated at WHSs across the world every year on 18th April, to raise awareness of the diversity of the world's cultural and natural heritage and the steps that are being made to protect it, conserve it and promote understanding of it.Heritage As Opportunity
In November 2008, Liverpool was accepted as a partner in the HerO (Heritage as Opportunity) Project. This is a project funded by the European Union under the URBACT II Programme.Cunard Building Features on BBC website
Liverpool's role in mass European emigration during the 19th and early 20th centuries is part of its outstanding universal value as a World Heritage Site. The Cunard Line was one of the busiest shipping lines on the North Atlantic run and was responsible for much of that movement of people and had its headquarters in Liverpool's Cunard Building at the Pier Head for many years.Welcome to Liverpool World Heritage
A cultural World Heritage Site is an historic monument, group of buildings or site which is of outstanding universal value to the international community.
In 2004, Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This website is designed to give visitors an overview of the Site and how to enjoy its many treasures.
The website also provides practical and academic information to assist in understanding the reasons for Liverpool's inscription and how the World Heritage Site is managed and conserved.
The World Heritage Site stretches along the waterfront from Albert Dock, through The Pier Head and up to Stanley Dock, and up through the historic commercial districts and the RopeWalks area to the cultural quarter which is dominated by the magnificent St George's Hall.
Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site is one of over 850 cultural and natural World Heritage sites which include The Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, the cities of Edinburgh and Bath, Hadrian's Wall and Stonehenge.
The award was made on the basis that the Site is 'the supreme example of a commercial port at a time of Britain's greatest global influence'.
The area's historic significance centres on its involvement in the growth of world trade, mercantile culture, the trans-atlantic slave trade and mass European emigration.
"Nothing gives one so vivid an idea of the vast commerce of the country as these docks, quays and immense wharehouses, piled and cumbered with hides and merchandises of all kinds from all corners of the world." Reverend Francis Kilvert, 1872.