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    I'm not liking that,I'm not a massive fan of all the Mann Island buildings and the development would spoil on of the best vistas in Liverpool but I love the x building and I'd be sad to see that scuppered.

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    Planning managers are recommending the waterfront scheme, a venture by local

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    Waterfront plan decision put back

    A decision has been delayed on plans for the former site of Liverpool's

    doomed Fourth Grace project.



    The granite-clad

    buildings are cut
    into different shapes


    The £120m waterfront scheme consists of three wedge-shaped buildings on Mann Island, built next to

    the controversial X-shaped Museum of Liverpool.

    The city's planning committee should have discussed the plans on Tuesday.

    But a report on

    its suitability, by UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites, was not received by the council until Monday night.

    A council

    spokesman said the committee would now hear the application on 7 November.

    "It was felt members needed time to consider the report," said a council

    spokesman.

    'Harm' claim

    The city was given World Heritage Status in 2004 with inspectors from UNESCO and the International Council

    on Monuments and Sites visiting the city last week to check on future developments.

    Opponents claim the buildings, two of which will be residential,

    could harm the area's architectural heritage.

    The groups opposing the scheme, include the Liverpool Preservation Trust, The Victorian Society and

    Albert Dock Residents Association.

    Some claim the modern scheme would cause serious harm to the architectural and historic significance of the

    Liverpool waterfront.

    But supporters say the structures will complement, rather than compete with, the city's waterfront.

    The three

    granite-clad buildings would house more than 300 apartments in two buildings, as well as offices, shops, bars and restaurants.

    'Important

    scheme'


    Developers Neptune and Countryside Properties said the buildings will frame views of the city's Three Graces - the Port of Liverpool

    Building, Cunard Building and the Liver Building.

    The plans are backed by English Heritage, Liverpool Vision and the North West Development Agency.



    David Wade-Smith, of regeneration agency Liverpool Vision, said the buildings were right for the 21st Century.

    "It's such an important

    scheme for the city and an important scheme for the waterfront.

    "It's also a very high quality piece of modern architecture to compliment the

    heritage of the Mersey waterfront.

    Mr Wade-Smith said he was confident the development would not affect the city's world heritage status and urged

    critics to consider the time they would be built in.

    "I'd ask them to look back 100 years when people were objecting so strongly to buildings such

    as the Liver Building.

    "This building represents the future."

    Source: BBC

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    Never mind about all the heritage stuff, it simply looks like a pile of shiite.

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    I know I'm starting to think like that,i

    like the museum though.

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    Can't say I

    like the black granite but there does need to be something done with the area between the Pier Head and the Albert Dock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howie View Post
    Can't say I like the black granite but there does need to be something done with the area between the Pier Head and

    the Albert Dock.
    A musem no more than two floors high so as not to block out the Three Graces would be fine - as long as the side view from

    Albert Dock is not blocked. Could be super modern too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    A musem no more than two floors high so as not to block out

    the Three Graces would be fine - as long as the side view from Albert Dock is not blocked. Could be super modern too.
    And what in your mind

    constitutes as "super modern?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by scouserdave View Post
    And what in your mind constitutes as "super modern?"
    Not red brick
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    'Wedges'

    pulled at eleventh hour

    Oct 25 2006
    By Sam Lister Daily Post

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    CONTENTIOUS plans to

    build three wedge-shaped apartment blocks near Liverpool's Three Graces were withdrawn just hours before a meeting to decide their fate

    yesterday.

    Officials in charge of monitoring the World Heritage waterfront handed over their report into the plans late on Monday night, causing

    confusion among city planners.

    Although the emergency report by architecture experts from Unesco found the scheme was unlikely to affect the city's

    heritage title, it recommended the council should be "cautious" about the plans, as well as those for the equally controversial proposed museum.

    The

    application has now been delayed for two weeks while the council works out the legal

    implications.

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    It looks like they'll still be approved in 2 weeks time though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    Not red brick
    What a dim reply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scouserdave View Post
    What a dim reply.
    Could be glazed red brick

    - that's quite bright (produced from Bedfordshire clay, of course).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howie View Post
    Could be glazed red brick - that's quite bright (produced from Bedfordshire clay, of course).

    LOL!

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