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World Heritage City L IVERPOOL

World Heritage City L IVERPOOL. John Hinchliffe World Heritage Officer Liverpool City Council. World Heritage City L IVERPOOL. Conservation and Management of the Liverpool’s WHS: Identification Protection Conservation Presentation and Promotion Interpretation Education

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World Heritage City L IVERPOOL

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  1. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL John Hinchliffe World Heritage Officer Liverpool City Council

  2. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL • Conservation and Management of the Liverpool’s WHS: • Identification • Protection • Conservation • Presentation and Promotion • Interpretation • Education • Visitor Management • Only officer in LCC working full-time on WHS issues. • EH and LCC have recently appointed an officer to spend 50% of her time on WHS issues

  3. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL • Conservation Team, • Planning Service, • Regeneration Portfolio, • Liverpool City Council. • Direct input into planning decision-making process • Danger of workload being dominated by planning issues • Support of municipal resources • Constraints of public office

  4. WORLD HERITAGE SITE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE ICOMOS ICOMOS – UK English Heritage UK GOVERNMENT- DCMS SPD Liverpool City Council - LIVERPOOL STEERING GROUP Community Support Political Support Financial Support Description & History NOMINATION DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN Conservation Conservation Management Management Statement of Significance Wide range of issues Vision Outstanding Universal Value Objectives Authenticity Boundary Action Plan

  5. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL World Heritage Steering Group: Liverpool City Council English Heritage Liverpool Vision North West Development Agency (Current chair) National Museums Liverpool Merseytravel Government Office-NW ICOMOS-UK Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry The Mersey Partnership Department for Culture, Media and Sport Merseyside Archaeology Service Liverpool University Liverpool John Moores University Merseyside Civic Society Liverpool First

  6. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL World Heritage Visitor Management Steering Group: Liverpool City Council Tourism (Current chair) English Heritage North West Development Agency National Museums Liverpool Merseytravel The Mersey Partnership British Waterways Other Advisory Groups meet as and when necessary

  7. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Liverpool was inscribed in 2004 The Theme of the Inscription: “Liverpool – the supreme example of a commercial port at the time of Britain’s greatest global influence.”

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  10. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL • Liverpool’s Outstanding • Universal Value • Liverpool: • Played a leading role in the development of dock • construction, port management and international trading • systems in the 18th and 19th centuries • 2. The buildings and structures of the port and the city are an • exceptional testimony to mercantile culture. • 3. Liverpool played a major role in influencing globally • significant demographic changes and • centuries, through: • a) its involvement in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the • 18th C and • b) its involvement as the leading port of mass European • emigration to the New World in the 19th C

  11. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Supplementary Planning Document for Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site.

  12. World Heritage Site Management Plan (2003) Objectives/Actions: 1.3.2 Prepare Supplementary Planning Guidance for the Site based on the Management Plan 2.2.1 Encourage developers to bring forward schemes that have identifiable benefits for the WHS 3.1 Identify and secure sustainable and appropriate uses for the built heritage resource of the Site that supports the regeneration of the City 3.8.2 Work with owners to ensure that appropriate active use is made of water-spaces World Heritage City LIVERPOOL

  13. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL UNESCO/ICOMOS Mission October 2006

  14. In 2007, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee requested that stricter planning guidance should be prepared to: a) clearly establish and respect prescribed heights b) adhere to the townscape characteristics, wider values (building density, urban patterns and materials) and sense of place.

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  16. Production of Supplementary Planning Document (1): Oct 2006 UNESCO/ICOMOS Mission. LCC gives commitment to producing an SPD November 2006 SPD Technical Officer Group set up: representatives of LCC, Liverpool Vision, NWDA, GONW, English Heritage and CABE. May 2007 Secured funding from the NWDA and EH May 2007 Agreed a brief for consultants- SUPPLEMENTARY! July 2007 Atkins Heritage commissioned to produce the SPD July-Oct 2007 Atkins undertook baseline analysis and consultations

  17. Production of Supplementary Planning Document (2): October 2007 Atkins issue: 1st Evidential Report, based on consultations and comprehensive townscape analysis; Scoping for Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment and; Habitat Screening December 2007 1st Draft of SPD produced by Atkins February 2008 2nd Drafts of Evidential Report and SPD produced June 2008 4th Draft of Evidential Report received and approved September 2008 5th Draft of SPD produced by Atkins October 2008 Further adjustments to SPD made by LCC

  18. Production of Supplementary Planning Document (3): December 2008 WHS SPD and supporting documents agreed by LCC for interim Development Control and public consultation January-February 2009 SPD, Evidential Report and Summary designed and printed March-April 2009 Public Consultation: • SPD available on online • 10 presentations on the SPD given to various groups • 2 public exhibitions held (over 7 days) • public debate • 700 consultation letters/emails sent, • 280 copies of the SPD distributed • 450 copies of the Summary of the SPD distributed. • 40 written representations received

  19. Production of Supplementary Planning Document (4): May-July 2009 SPD adjusted by LCC to accommodate representations October 2009 SPD adopted by LCC November 2009 SPD considered by English Heritage Advisory Committee 11th February 2010 EHAC “…fully support its overall approach and content, particularly the focus on 6 character areas as the basis for establishing the historical and architectural significance of development site” but “Proposals for Clarence Dock and the wider Central Docks will need to be carefully assessed and should only be permitted if they can be delivered without compromise to the OUV, authenticity and integrity of the WHS” and “LCC should develop a methodology to assess the effect of development on OUV, authenticity and integrity”

  20. Costs Initial Consultants Fees £108,000 Additional Consultants Fees £13,500 Print Consultation Documents £15,000 Public Consultation Material £3,000 Design and print Final SPD and CDs £15,000 Total £154,500 Funding NWDA £100,000 EH £26,500 LCC £28,000 £154,500

  21. The overarching aim of this SPD is: “To provide a framework for protecting and enhancing the outstanding universal value of the WHS, whilst encouraging investment and development which secures a healthy economy and supports regeneration.

  22. Structure of the SPD 1. Introduction 2. Relationship to Current Planning Policy Framework 3. Overview of the WHS and Buffer Zone 4. General Guidance - For WHS and Buffer Zone 5. WHS-Wide Guidance 6. Detailed Guidance for WHS Character Areas 7. Implementation and Monitoring

  23. S.4 General Guidance in SPD for WHS & BZ : • Design Guidance (New Buildings and Public Realm) • Views • Riverside Development • Tall Buildings • Dock Water-spaces.

  24. 1. Design Guidance

  25. Guidance: The architectural quality of a proposal within the WHS and Buffer Zone must be of the highest quality of contemporary design but respect and respond to its highly sensitive and important historic context, although accurate reconstruction may be considered in some circumstances.

  26. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL • 2. Views: • Panoramic • views • b) Defined • vistas

  27. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: Applications should not to have a significantly adverse impact on the key views to, from and within the WHS.

  28. Riverside Development

  29. Guidance: The aim is to create a cohesive and exciting waterfront of historic and contemporary buildings , which sit harmoniously together

  30. Tall Buildings

  31. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: There will be a strong presumption against bringing forward high-rise developments within the World Heritage Site, as they are considered to be out of context with its prevailing character.

  32. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Locations for Tall Buildings in Public Consultation Draft of SPD

  33. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL • Guidance in adopted SPD: • One dominant cluster of high-rise buildings in the Buffer Zone: • The Commercial Business District. • Two secondary clusters of high-rise: • 1) Clarence Dock • 2) The Southern Gateway • One mid-rise cluster in WHS: • Quaysides of Nelson and Bramley-Moore Dock

  34. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Dock Water-spaces

  35. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: It is essential that the fundamental integrity of the historic docks, as open water-spaces, is retained.

  36. S.5 Guidance Specific to WHS: • Building Heights in the WHS • Replacement of Existing Buildings • Re-use of Historic Buildings • Heritage at Risk • Roof-scapes and Attic Extensions • Archaeology

  37. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Building Heights in the WHS

  38. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: New developments should reflect local variations in building heights and ensure that they do not dominate areas by virtue of their height.

  39. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Replacement/Redevelopment of existing (negative)buildings

  40. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: The Council will generally encourage redevelopment or remodelling proposals for buildings and sites that have a negative impact on the character of the WHS

  41. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Re-use of Historic Buildings:

  42. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: The council is committed to ensuring that unlisted buildings in the WHS (and Buffer Zone) which make a positive contribution to the WHS are retained and re-used, wherever possible.

  43. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Conservation Management Plans

  44. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: The Council will require applications for listed buildings or larger / more complex historic buildings to be accompanied by a Conservation Statement or Conservation Management Plan.

  45. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Heritage at Risk

  46. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: The Council wishes to see historic buildings at risk brought back into appropriate uses.

  47. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Roof-scapes and attic extensions

  48. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: The council will consider proposals for significant alterations to the roof-scape of historic buildings against specified criteria

  49. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Archaeology

  50. Guidance: All developments in the WHS will need to ensure the preservation in-situ of important archaeological remains and/or undertake detailed archaeological evaluation, excavation, recording analysis and interpretation

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