Quote Originally Posted by Peter McGurk View Post
There's no point in standing still. Even the Liver Buildings were a 'monstrosity' to some when it was built (and it committed today's cardinal sin of filling in a dock).
They get filled on a regular basis. Even in a World Heritage Site Buffer Zone. Disgusting. This abomination borders Liverpool Waters - now that is going to be a big success now isn't it? This now, with the Sandon Dock plant, ensures the dock waters will remain just the south end and up to central for leisure and resident expansion. What a waste! They no vision. Today.....

£200m United Utilities waste treatment plant for Wellington Dock approved

A NEW £200m waste treatment plant will be built on the banks of the River Mersey to continue improving its water quality.

United Utilities was yesterday given planning permission for the new complex in Liverpool’s northern docklands.

The scheme involves draining Wellington Dock and partially reclaiming it to create a huge plant capable of handling 11,000 litres of wastewater a second – the equivalent of re-fuelling the average family car 200 times every second.

As part of the new improvements, sections of Sandon Dock will also be upgraded and the existing outfall will be extended into the River Mersey resulting in dispersing treated waste water even further into the estuary to meet new EU standards.

The new plant must be built by 2016 after United Utilities was prosecuted by the Environment Agency for polluting the Mersey.

Sarah Jakubiak of United Utilities said Wellington Dock was the only available site for the development.

It falls within the buffer zone for the World Heritage Site (WHS), and English Heritage had expressed concerns about the scheme. However, Ms Jakubiak said English Heritage had withdrawn their objections after United Utilities had presented their plans to a recent monitoring mission to the WHS by Unesco.



Liverpool council said yesterday that it was prepared to approve the plans for the plant because of the exceptional circumstances and because it was desperately needed.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/...#ixzz1j9PHnTii

Sandon Dock was filled to create a waste sewage plant for "Manchester". In London they are building the Super Sewer than is a massive pipe put under the bed of the River Thames and both banks of the river empty into it. It takes sewage to a treatment pant nearer to the sea.

Liverpool could have done the same by laying a pipe in the river bed and taking sewage and waste to nearer Liverpool Bay.