Liverpool Maritime

Mercantile City
Made by Akhalaia Tania
• The Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site
in Liverpool, England. It comprises six locations in the city centre of Liverpool
including the Pier Head, Albert Dock and William Brown Street, and includes many of
the city's most famous landmarks.

Centre of Liverpool
• UNESCO received the city council's nomination for the six sites in January 2003 and in
September of that year sent ICOMOS representatives to carry out an evaluation on the
eligibility for these areas to be given World Heritage Status. In March 2004 ICOMOS
recommended that UNESCO inscribe the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City as a
World Heritage Site.
• In 2012, the site was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to the
proposed construction of Liverpool Waters project.

• In July 2017, UNESCO warned that the city's status as a World Heritage Site was at risk
of being rescinded in light of planning and development proposals, with English
Heritage asserting that the proposed Liverpool Waters development would leave the
setting of some of Liverpool's most significant historic buildings “severely
compromised”, the archaeological remains of parts of the historic docks “at risk of
destruction”, and “the city’s historic urban landscape ... permanently unbalanced”.