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Liverpool World Heritage City - Supplementary Planning Document

This document provides planning guidance and regulations for the Liverpool World Heritage Site, highlighting the city's outstanding universal value and its role in maritime and mercantile history.

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Liverpool World Heritage City - Supplementary Planning Document

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

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

  3. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL The Theme of the Inscription “Liverpool – the supreme example of a commercial port at the time of Britain’s greatest global influence.”

  4. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL

  5. 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 and19th 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 in the 18th and 19th • centuries, through: • a) its involvement in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and • b) its involvement as the leading port of mass European • emigration to the New World • NB. Liverpool’s historic urban landscape bears • witness to its historical significance

  6. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Liverpool WHSManagement Plan (2003) The Vision for the WHS Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City will be managed as an exemplary demonstration of sustainable development and heritage-led regeneration.”

  7. 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

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

  9. 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.

  10. Progress on Supplementary Planning Document: • Set up a Technical Officer Group consisting of representatives of LCC, Liverpool Vision, NWDA, GONW, English Heritage and CABE. • Secured funding from the NWDA and EH • Agreed a brief • Appointed consultants • Evidential Report based on consultations and comprehensive townscape analysis • WHS SPD agreed for interim Development Control and Public consultation (December 2008). • Public Consultation March-April 2009

  11. 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.

  12. Structure of the SPD 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Relationship to Current Planning Policy Framework 3.0 Overview of the WHS and Buffer Zone 4.0 General Guidance (For WHS and Buffer Zone) 5.0 WHS-Wide Guidance 6.0 WHS Character Area Guidance 7.0 Implementation and Monitoring

  13. Key Issues for the SPD: • Design Guidance • Views • Tall Buildings • Building Heights in the WHS • Water-spaces. • The Future for Unlisted Buildings • Conservation of Historic Buildings • Roof-scapes • Archaeology • Visions

  14. 1. Design Guidance

  15. 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.

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

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

  18. 3. Tall Buildings

  19. 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.

  20. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL • Guidance: • Two areas for clusters of high-rise buildings in the Buffer Zone have been identified: • 1) The Commercial Business District, • 2) The Southern Gateway

  21. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL 4. Building Heights in the WHS

  22. 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.

  23. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL 5. Water-spaces

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

  25. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL 6. The Future for Unlisted Buildings: a) Unlisted Buildings in poor condition

  26. 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.

  27. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL b)Negativebuildings

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

  29. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL 7. Conservation of Listed Buildings a) Buildings at Risk

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

  31. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL b) Conservation standards

  32. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Guidance: The council wishes to encourage the very highest standards of building conservation and repair work in the WHS.

  33. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL c) Large historic buildings

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

  35. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL 8. Roof-scapes

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

  37. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL 9. Archaeology

  38. 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

  39. 10. Visions for the future • General Aspirations • Development Opportunities • Restoration Opportunities

  40. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Central Docks/Liverpool Waters

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  42. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL A detailed master plan for Liverpool Waters/ Central Docks should be commissioned by the owners/developers, supported by a full Conservation Management Plan

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  44. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL . Central Docks/Liverpool Waters

  45. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL The Stanley Dock complex will be revitalised by a mixed-use scheme that will bring new life into the area

  46. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL The Dock Wall should, wherever possible, be retained and preserved in its entirety. Proposals for new openings will be assessed against criteria.

  47. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Proposals should not have a significantly detrimental impact on views of the Victoria Clock Tower, from the river or Stanley Dock

  48. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL The formal Public Consultation period was 2nd March- 14th April • SPD available on online • 10 presentations on the SPD given, • 2 public exhibitions held (over 7days) • public debate • approximately 700 consultation letters/emails sent, • approximately 280 copies of the SPD distributed • approximately 450 copies of the Summary of the SPD distributed. 40 representations received and now being considered.

  49. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL Representations include: • Consensus support for the over-arching aim – its interpretation is another matter! • The WHS should be used more as a driver for investment, regeneration and tourism • Views are important but the WHS must continue to evolve • Approach infilling of dock water spaces is too restrictive • Welcome emphasis on retaining dock water-spaces and promotion of active uses in them

  50. World Heritage City LIVERPOOL • A further group of tall buildings in the Central Docks should be proposed • Disagree with restricting tall buildings to 2 clusters • SPD compounds the error of encouraging tall buildings N of the Pier Head, in the WHS Buffer Zone • The existing high-rise cluster N of the Pier Head is not sustainable, does not embrace the city’s cultural heritage and does not contribute to sustainable urban regeneration

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