City Praised for Preserving Heritage
Liverpool was praised at a nationwide awards ceremony celebrating cities that have worked hard to preserve their fine Georgian architecture.
The city’s Ropewalks area was highly commended in the national competition run by the Georgian Group.
In particular, judges were impressed by the way the area around Seel Street has been saved from decay and given a new lease of life.
The judging panel included leading architectural historians and architecture critic Jonathan Glancey.
Liverpool council cabinet member for regeneration and transport, Cllr Malcolm Kennedy, said: “The praise from the Georgian Group is well deserved and I’m particularly pleased that work that’s been done to bring buildings back into use has been highlighted by the judges.
“The transformation of the Ropewalks area has been one of the great success stories of Liverpool in the last decade. Much has been achieved, but there is still so much potential to be unleashed.”
The Ropewalks was first developed as a “harbour suburb”, after the world’s first commercial wet dock was opened in the city in 1715.
After World War I the closure of the south docks saw the area go into decline and many of the buildings fall into dereliction.
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