LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL - STOP ALLOWING THE DEMOLITION OF OUR HISTORY

These days, too often in Liverpool do we see a piece of appreciated history torn down instead of protected by the Council who should be looking out for our culture.

This is a petition to Mayor Joe Anderson, Liverpool City Council's Planning and Building Control Department, to Liverpool City Council and to Planning officer Victoria Vaughan-Williams to save our historic buildings from demolition.

From the pubs communities were built in, to the theatres people were entertained in, to the libraries people learned in, to the warehouses people survived from, all of this City's history helped give its character which is appreciated dearly, therefore it is worthy of considerate protection and to be included in our future instead of being swept aside.

This petition starts with a request to refuse submitted Planning Application 20F/0217 which would include the demolition of the 15-17 Fulton Street Warehouses, a part of our social history once known as "Provender Mills".

Instead, insisting that the proposal for the new hotel includes and protects the historical building and its internal roof support structure within the architectural plans.

This structure, an early example of fireproof warehousing, is not only held up by jaw dropping timber constructs never seen in modern day buildings, but these mills once helped the city and surrounding areas grow.

What grew this City in the past is a part of what shapes us all now and to realise, appreciate and learn this through architecture is a wonderful and worthwhile thing to both current and future generations.

Surely the construction company and their client who wish to profit from an impressive part of this City's heritage, namely the new Everton Stadium, should respect the remaining social history that helped form this City and its people?

Including the warehouse in its plans would allow its visitors to appreciate another very real and important part of what helped Liverpool become great.

This petition therefore asks Liverpool City Council, Liverpool City Council's Planning Control Department, Mayor Joe Anderson and Planning Officer Victoria Vaughan-Williams to start protecting this great City's architectural, cultural and industrial Heritage entirely, whether it has yet been listed or not.

As a community, we put our voices together to say please start saving and protecting Liverpool's heritage as it is a part of who we are.


HERE'S THE PLANNING APPLICATION ON THE COUNCIL'S PLANNING PORTAL IF YOU WISH TO MAKE PERSONAL COMMENT:
https://bit.ly/2vLOnGF



19/02/20 UPDATE -

THIS AFFECTS AND COULD JEOPARDISE LIVERPOOL'S UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

We're still working in many avenues to get this message out there, through which we've just learned that the building, although just outside the World Heritage Conservation area, sits within the "World Heritage Buffer Zone".

UNESCO states regarding Buffer Zones:

"All along the history of implementation of the World Heritage Convention, the protection of the “surroundings” of the inscribed properties was considered an essential component of the conservation strategy, for cultural and natural sites alike. ...

Interventions and changes to the environment may have a direct impact on the quality of World Heritage sites.
Buffer zone is intended to protect World Heritage sites from negative influences. In other words, it represents a zone, that in itself is not of outstanding universal value, but that may influence a World Heritage site."

According to official guidelines, this building along with the others around it, although only just outside the UNESCO World Heritage site, are a supporting aspect to the World Heritage Status, so should be protected.

So all the more reason to sign and share this petition and to make noise about this planning application before its too late.


For the further reading on buffer zones: 
https://whc.unesco.org/documents/publi_wh_papers_25.pdf