On 18th April 2008, free coach tours of Liverpool's World Heritage Site are offered by Liverpool City Council, the Liverpool Culture Company and English Heritage to celebrate the inscription of Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site.
Liverpool's World Heritage Site was in the spotlight in the middle of October 2006 as a mission to assess its "state of conservation" was undertaken on the instruction of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee.
Stanley Dock has been largely dis-used since the early 1980's and finding a sustainable new use for this outstanding complex of dock buildings is one of the greatest challenges for the World Heritage Site.
The Friends of Liverpool Monuments has asked English Heritage to list surviving drinking fountains as important examples of Liverpool's social history but in December 2006 English Heritage declined to do so.
