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NewsDesk – Move to make the Clifton Suspension Bridge a World Heritage Site

April 8th, 2013

Bristol’s mayor, George Ferguson, has started a campaign to make the city’s famous Clifton Suspension Bridge a World Heritage Site.

Mr Ferguson believes giving the bridge World Heritage Site status would bring more tourists to Bristol, an historic port in the West Country.

Bridgemaster David Anderson said: “There are around 500,000 visitors to the bridge each year and if we got World Heritage status that number would increase.”

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Clifton Suspension Bridge was opened in 1864.

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NewsDesk – Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway could lose World Heritage Site status

March 4th, 2013

A controversial judgement by Northern Ireland’s High Court allowing a £100 million golf resort to be built near the Giant’s Causeway could deprive it of World Heritage Site status.

Last week, a High Court judge dismissed a judicial review of the planning decision which gave permission for construction of a golf course, a five-star hotel and 75 holiday villas inside the World Heritage Site’s buffer zone.

A representative from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature visited the Giant’s Causeway and is preparing a report for UNESCO on the development’s impact on the site.

UNESCO has asked for a halt to the development until it can consider the report.

Despite UNESCO’s request, Northern Ireland’s government says the development can go ahead and work will start immediately.

After considering the report, UNESCO could take away the Giant’s Causeway’s World Heritage Site status.

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NewsDesk – Liverpool calls UNESCO’s bluff

September 24th, 2012

Heritage tourism is big business and the number of visitors to Liverpool has increased since it was made a World Heritage Site in 2004.

Between 2005 and 2010, the number of day visitors rose from 44,193 to 50,088. These figures suggest that World Heritage Site status has stimulated tourism and benefited the local economy

UNESCO has threatened to deprive Liverpool of its World Heritage Site status if the controversial Liverpool Waters development goes ahead.

The city council has called UNESCO’s bluff and approved the scheme.

Liverpool’s mayor, Joe Anderson, is reported as saying people visit the city because of its iconic pop history, its sporting heritage and its buildings, not because it is a World Heritage Site.

A lot of people whose livelihoods depend on Merseyside’s tourist industry hope he’s right.

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NewsDesk – Jobs and houses more important than World Heritage Site status

September 19th, 2012

Despite objections from English Heritage, plans for the multi-billion pound Liverpool Waters scheme have been given the go-ahead by the city’s planners.

UNESCO has indicated that that if the development takes place, Liverpool’s waterfront is likely to lose its World Heritage Site status.

However, Cllr Hazel Williams, a member of the planning committee, is reported to have said it is more important to create jobs and build houses than to retain World Heritage Site status.

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NewsDesk – Controversial plans to make Nazi death camp a World Heritage Site

September 2nd, 2012

A major controversy has erupted in Germany over plans to make a former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald a World Heritage Site.

The proposal has been attacked by a German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which asks: “What is there of ‘creative genius’, of extraordinary cultural tradition, of exceptional natural beauty or brilliant engineering art in this place?”

As yet, supporters of the scheme to turn one of Hitler’s death camps into a World Heritage Site have not answered the newspaper’s questions.

If they do, The Phoenix Trust will read their answers with interest and make the appropriate comments.

Do you think Buchenwald should be made a World Heritage Site? Email phoenixstaffs@mail.com and have your say.

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