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 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.
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.
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.
