Planned ferry terminal 'a trashy tart in front of gently ageing Edwardian beauties'
THE man who complained to the World Heritage
Centre about high-rise building projects close to Liverpool's Pier Head last night condemned the latest plans for a new ferry terminal on the waterfront.
The scheme, exclusively revealed in yesterday's Daily Post, would see a three-storey building for the river ferry service.
But Wayne
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Colquhoun of the Merseyside Preservation Trust has already alerted Unesco officials about the scheme.
Last night he said: "Right in front of our
three gently ageing Edwardian beauties they want to stick another trashy tart as if the current proposals for the Pier Head are not bad enough.
"If
someone had said to me you could design a building worse than the present terminal I would have laughed, but it's been done. In Liverpool when we put our
minds to it we can do the impossible, only it's the wrong direction. I urge anyone who cares for World Heritage to write to Unesco at 7 Rue de Fontonoy,
Paris.
"We need a public inquiry and a masterplan agreed by popular consensus not just nodded through by a handful of people without the class or
culture to be able to deliver what Liverpool needs to be a 21st century city on the world stage."
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