Mersey Muckraker-Digging The Dirt On Liverpool

A new website has started up that could prove to be a grateful addition to all of us that wish to see the corrupted political system be held to account. What chance do we have with Marc Waddington being edited by David Bartlett being edited by Alaistar "Burger and Ships" Machray.
What chance does Joe Public have of understanding the way the Liverpool media works. Those of us who wish to inform the populace of the way the system is being run around the council and its property developing mates hope, It may prove a welcome addition.http://merseymuckraker.co.uk/author/mersey-muckraker/


Stella Who http://merseymuckraker.co.uk/2014/03/news/stella-who/#more-12 Lindsay Ashworth and his gal' get Peeled.

It also draws questions about apparantly harmless websites such as Sevenstreets, that are, wrongly,  trusted by Liverpools facebook generation, as Mersey Muckraker puts it SevenStreets are an online culture rag popular amongst Liverpool’s bespectacled hipsters.  http://merseymuckraker.co.uk/2014/03/news/slaves-to-marketing/#more-61



It may be worth a further look.

Peel Holdings to Build a Brothel on Princes Dock, Liverpool

What a foul mouthed arrogant clown Lindey Ashworth is turning out to be.

Now Lindsay Ashworth says Peel Holdings are to build a Brothel in Princes Dock.
This was in front of John Whittaker, who is Asworth's boss, who he has lapdogged with for decades, he calls UNESCO idiots.
This man is a idiot.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/stella-shiu-exposed-in-private-eye.html

What happened to Stella Shiu and Lindsey and why has he got Viagra on the brain.

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/who-is-stella-shiu-and-who-are-peel.html


21 Oct 2013, 11:27

Peel said it will submit a detailed planning application in the coming weeks for the first phase of the £200m Wirral International Trade Centre.
Development director Lindsey Ashworth, addressing guests at the launch of The Quay, a suite of serviced offices and meeting rooms on the ground floor of 12 Princes Dock in Liverpool, said the 500,000 sq ft phase would not be built speculatively.
The first phase of the 2.5m sq ft ITC could house up to 300 occupiers in small hybrid office-industrial-retail units designed for assembling and showcasing imported products.
Ashworth said Peel had 40 agents across China signing up the first wave of operators and construction would only start if the level of pre-lets was sufficient, but declined to give a proportion that would trigger a move on site.
Ceremonies for Chinese suppliers to sign up to the ITC are due to be held in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong but dates have not been set.
Tenants will be offered nine-year leases at a headline rent of £18/sq ft in the Broadway Malyan-designed building next to the Mersey.
The ITC is a joint venture between Peel and Chinese investor Sam Wa, headed by Stella Shiu, a minerals trader.
The pair has outline planning permission for the whole scheme but a detailed planning application has yet to be submitted. Ashworth said initial designs had been tweaked to allow parking on two sides rather than one and access from both sides, as well as changes to internal configuration. The 16-acre site has been remediated and construction is ready to start pending planning.
Meanwhile, Ashworth said talks between Peel and other Chinese investors over the Liverpool and Wirral Waters mega-schemes, which do not include the ITC, were progressing well but the identities of all interested parties remained confidential.
Peel has come under pressure locally with critics complaining about the pace of the dockland schemes, especially since Chinese investment was confirmed this month into Airport City Manchester. Ashworth pointed out that Liverpool Waters only recently received full go-ahead from government after the judicial review period into the decision by secretary of state Eric Pickles not to call a public inquiry ended.
Peel was the main sponsor of Liverpool's presence at the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010. Ashworth said the event three years ago was a success but the business opportunities it created for Liverpool have not been recognised.
Ashworth's speech to invited guests was typically colourful, twice referring to UN heritage body Unesco as "idiots" for opposing Liverpool Waters, which Unesco says threatens the World Heritage Sites in the city, and joking about putting a brothel or a Viagra factory on Princes Dock. The launch event was attended by Peel owner John Whittaker and representatives from Peel's Media City UK and partners from the Atlantic Gateway initiative.


http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/14600-wirral-trade-centre-plans-due-to-go-in.html

Stella Shiu-Exposed In Private Eye. Serious Questions Need To Be Answered About Sam Wa.

Stella Shiu gets the Private Eye treatment. You have to ask why are the local pres is not looking into the finances of Peel Holdings and why are they believing what Peel say.
China has a level of corruption that has been shown to be unparallelled.
 We are not saying there is anything a miss here between Lindsay and Stell but the public are always let down by Liverpool's lazy local press who just take any old hack from whatever PR company feeds them, or gives them a freebie. So we cant believe them.
This has to stop.
  Those that call themselves journalists should understand that in an age where citizen journalism creates news they are pulling off a confidence trick to the dwindling readership.

It is stated in the Private Eye article that Stella Shui has kalashnikov wielding bodyguards, and this came from an article in the Daily Ghost written by Liam Murphy in 2011 that needs to be questioned. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2011/05/17/chinese-businesswoman-stella-shiu-behind-25m-wirral-international-trade-centre-plans-99623-28705937/ The article says that Stella Shiu is a high ranking government official.

David Bartlett recently followed it up.
 http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2013/03/07/chinese-government-approve-flow-of-millions-of-pounds-into-merseyside-99623-32935610/
We have asked David where this information has come from and how he may substantiate these claims.
We are still waiting for a reply.........but we will get one.
The Private Eye article questions the credentials of Sam Wa, saying that all the articles in the press have been written recently (mostly by David Bartlett and co) and their checks using the Nexis database available to them has shown nothing else other than those articles from Peels Poodles down at the Daily Ghost, who seem insistent on doing advertorials for them week after week.
When in reality all the promises have resulted not a single brick being laid on Liverpool Waters or Wirral Waters (where the plans were passed years ago).
The Sam Wa website that the Daily Ghost has used looks like it has been built be a 5 year old kid and the first rule of journalism is to check your source.................especially if the source comes from China.

The issue before Private Eye 1339 saw another poke at Peel. The article entitled CHINESE TAKEAWAY stated the David Cameron and John Whittaker travelled together to the Expo. David Bartlett was aware of this, after the event, despite going to Shanghai, but this telling piece of information was conveniently withheld from articles written. The Eye article states that Peel paid for Liverpool's stand at the Shanghai expo and this is factually incorrect. As it was, we the taxpayer that paid for Peels stand. Its not only local press that need to get the facts straight. This was an expo that Joe Anderson when in opposition declared was a waste of taxpayers money, and it was recorded, probably by Bartlett. Then when he becomes Liverpool's dictator he sanctioned it.  Peel duly took the stand at the Shanghai expo promoting Wirral Waters which includes the International Trade Centre which will be a full on competition to Liverpool Waters. The company Peel and Sam War Investments Ltd,  whose directors, it states in Eye 1339 are Stella Shiu and Lindsay Ashworth. But it also states there is little on record about Stella Shui. But in 1340 it claims that The Hong Kong authorities seem to have quite a bit of info on her and she may have in fact, it is alleged changed her name. click on article to read          

PEEL HOLDINGS AND DICTATOR JOE ANDERSON HAVE NOW GOT US ON THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE IN DANGER LIST   

ALONG WITH SEVERAL CORRUPTED THIRD WORLD COUNTIES.

Who is Stella Shiu-And Who Are Peel Holdings Invisible Investors?

Our Friends at Liverpool Confidential have been doing sterling work of recent dates.
http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/The-Laz-Word-on-Peel-and-Liverpool-Waters  This was the last article that little Larry Neild did for the site.
He also followed up his work on his City Talk FM programme which goes out Sunday Morning 9am-10 am, always worth a listen.

Wayne has approached the local press and asked them who are Peel Holdings Investors?
As of yet no work has been done BY ANYONE to substantiate who they are.
Yet, on Liverpool Confidential this link has appeared

Kabo Tam Last Thursday at 6:05 AM.
I base in Liverpool, when I read the delegation brought by Chinese Lady Stella Shiu, when I google her, I found that she was bankrupt in 2008. The following is the link. Peel holding told the media that Stella Shiu will sponsor over £200 million for the construction. How?Kabo Tam Last Thursday at 12:40 PM.


The media also reported that she is the chairman of the multi-billiondollars company, I found that her company is only 3 million HK dollars capital, I think it is totally telling lies. She also claimed that she is the senior government official, when I checked with the Chinese government embasy office in UK, there is no Stella Shiu name. For such a huge project, why Peel holding has not done any checking before annoucing the totally wrong information. Lindsy Asworth totally telling lies to the public.
Kabo
http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/The-Laz-Word-on-Peel-and-Liverpool-Waters



pls browser http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/
, type "HBC 4234/2008" in "Quick Search for Case Number: " column and click "GO", then you can see the case details.
Sorry, type "HCB 4324/2008" is correct.

There are more questions tha that need to be answered.
NONE OF THEM ARE BEING ASKED BY THE LOCAL PRESS.

LIKE JUST WHO ARE PEEL HOLDINGS SO CALLED CHINESE INVESTORS?
THAT ARE ABOUT TO DESTROY LIVERPOOLS WORLD HERITAGE SITE?

LETS HAVE SOME INFORMATION.

e-petition Liverpool Waters.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/30272



Protect Liverpools World Heritage Site from Liverpool Waters
Responsible department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Due to the threat to a Unesco World Heritage Site from the development known as Liverpool Waters it would be most appropriate if the government "called in" this application for scrutiny.
Unesco say:
Mission’s Conclusion and Recommendation
The mission concludes that if the proposed Liverpool Waters scheme as outlined during the mission would be implemented, the World Heritage property would be irreversibly damaged, due to a serious deterioration of its architectural and town-planning coherence, a serious loss of historical authenticity, and an important loss of cultural significance. It strongly recommends that the three principal stakeholders, being Liverpool City Council, Peel Holdings and English Heritage, reconvene around the table.

The government must not let Liverpool lose its WHS status for a speculative scheme that lacks the skill to create a 21st century city that respects its heritage assetts.

A Monster Terrorising the Three Graces-Charles Clover Sunday Times

Maybe the penny is now starting to drop.

But what is the idle World Heritage Officer John Hinchliffe doing about it?

click on pics to expand

Liverpool Waters Plans nodded through by Peel's planning poodles.

Yes it was unanimous. You have seen those nodding dogs on the back parcelshelf of a 1979 Rover. Well imagine having ten of them sitting in the front of you as a planning committee, latching on to every word that the arrogant Lindsey Ashworth says, up and down they go nodding away with the promise of jobs.
Ashworth says in a after meeting video done by the Echo.

 "This is the end of the beginning". he says
Well it could well spell the beginning of the end for Liverpools World Heritage site.  http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/_services/ajax/ajax_controller.cfm?event=kyteURL&t=video&u=channels/408938/1618277

David Swift a true heritage campaigner and Wayne Colquhoun were interviewed after the meeting.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/_services/ajax/ajax_controller.cfm?event=kyteURL&t=video&u=channels/408938/1618381

Here is the full text of the meeting put online by Neil McDonald of the Echo digital team.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2012/03/06/liverpool-council-planning-committee-unanimously-approves-5bn-liverpool-waters-scheme-100252-30472608/

Do Peel Holdings Want Liverpools World Heritage Status Scrapped?

And will their land value for Liverpool's North Docks increase if it is scrapped?

"Protect Liverpool's World Heritage Site from Liverpool Waters" sign the e-petition now




http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/30272



Protect Liverpools World Heritage Site from Liverpool Waters

Responsible department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Due to the threat to a Unesco World Heritage Site from the development known as Liverpool Waters it would be most appropriate if the government "called in" this application for scrutiny.
Unesco say:
Mission’s Conclusion and Recommendation
The mission concludes that if the proposed Liverpool Waters scheme as outlined during the mission would be implemented, the World Heritage property would be irreversibly damaged, due to a serious deterioration of its architectural and town-planning coherence, a serious loss of historical authenticity, and an important loss of cultural significance. It strongly recommends that the three principal stakeholders, being Liverpool City Council, Peel Holdings and English Heritage, reconvene around the table.
The government must not let Liverpool lose its WHS status for a speculative scheme that lacks the skill to create a 21st century city that respects its heritage assetts.

Call In Liverpool Waters says Liam Fogarty-Mayoral Candidate for Liverpool.

liam4liverpool


March 5th, 2012

Dear Secretary of State,
Tomorrow, Tuesday March 6th, the Planning Committee of Liverpool City Council will consider whether to grant planning permission to the huge Liverpool Waters scheme in the city's northern docklands.
Council officers are recommending that permission is given for site owners, Peel Holdings, to develop the first phase of the project to be built between now and 2016.
You will be aware that the scheme is highly controversial both because of its scale ( described by council officers as "unprecedented" and "beyond living experience") and its proximity to the Liverpool Waterfront World Heritage Site (WHS.)
Putting arguments about the possible threat to WHS status to one side, it is clear that the scheme proposed by Peel is indeed of international significance and could change the face of Liverpool for generations.
It is our civic leaders' duty not to be dazzled by developer "hype" or tempted to ignore the scheme's shortcomings in order to approve something - anything - on such a derelict site.
I believe that Liverpool Waters - and its sister scheme in Wirral - represent an out-dated model of global property development that was discredited once the credit crunch began to bite. Notions of building not just a “Dubai” but an “Abu Dhabi” on either side of the River Mersey are surely fanciful.
And the architectural quality of what is being proposed is, to put it mildly, debatable. English Heritage, CABE and Civic Voice have been highly critical of what's being proposed.
For my part, I believe that Peel's plans for Liverpool Waters are mediocre and soulless.
Liverpool is proud of its heritage of outstanding architecture. With Liverpool Waters we shouldn't be afraid to insist on the highest standards of design and sustainability, even if our Council won't.
If, as expected, Peel's application is approved then I would urge you to call in the scheme and subject it to a public enquiry.
Yours sincerely,

Liam Fogarty

Prospective Independent Candidate
Liverpool Mayoral Election 2012

Is Ged Fitzgerald-The Chief Executive Who Loses Liverpool World Heritage Site Status?

It looks that way even the planners say we will lose the WHS status if the plans for Liverpool Waters are approved.
David Bartlett, who is showing himself above and beyond most at the local Trinity Mirror writes in todays Echo;  http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/02/29/liverpool-council-planners-warn-world-heritage-site-status-may-be-lost-after-backing-liverpool-waters-scheme-video-100252-30427871/

LIVERPOOL must be prepared to lose its World Heritage Site status if the £5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme for the city’s northern docklands is approved, officials warned today.
Planners have recommended Liverpool council’s planning committee backs Peel Holdings’ £5.5bn Liverpool Waters project on Tuesday. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/_services/ajax/ajax_controller.cfm?event=kyteURL&t=video&u=channels/408938/1612559 There is a video on the Echo website showing the full horror.
But they warned the decision could have dire consequences for the city’s World Heritage Site, which includes large parts of the development area, the waterfront and the city centre.
They suggested approving Peel’s proposals next week will lead to the city being put on the “danger list” of under-threat World Heritage Sites in the summer.
Liverpool Waters was the subject of intense debate after Unesco, the body which oversees World Heritage Sites, sent an inspection mission to Liverpool in November last year to assess its impact on the city’s waterfront.
Their subsequent report said the huge scheme would damage the city’s World Heritage Site “beyond repair” and the Three Graces would be relegated to playing “second violin”.
The government’s official heritage watchdog English Heritage has also objected.
Liverpool Waters promises to create 20,000 jobs. It features 9,000 apartments, hundreds of offices, hotels, bars and a cruise terminal, as well as the 55-storey Shanghai Tower.
A 513-page report written ahead of next week’s meeting sets out the view of council planning manager Mark Loughran, who believes the inspection report had “significant weakness” and believes the heritage benefits outweigh the negatives.
But he warned the committee must fully understand the implications.
Mr Loughran believes Unesco will first place Liverpool on the “World Heritage In Danger” list and then remove it from the main World Heritage list “if/when the ‘damaging’ components of the proposal are commenced”.
His report stated: “The Liverpool Waters proposals are clearly unique and have the potential to change the future of the city.
“The development proposed is on an unprecedented scale almost beyond living experience which, if delivered, would transform the city’s waterfront, creating a new international business destination, expand the city’s economy and regenerate north Liverpool.”
If approved, as widely expected, the application will be referred to communities secretary Eric Pickles MP to see if he wants a public inquiry.
It may also have to be referred to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Mr Loughran also said a public inquiry is “probable”.Peel Holdings have warned they will walk away if a public inquiry is called and concentrate exclusively on Wirral Waters – a similar project in Birkenhead which already has planning permission.

Lindsey Ashworth-What an Arrogant Man. And Fib after Fib after Fib!

Well what do you expect when working for a company such as Peel Holdings. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/09/peel-holdings-arrogant-bastards.html

But its the way he tells them, he keeps on going on about how the world and his dog is against them, but they just don't get the message....they are arrogant bastards. Oh and blackmailers, now they threaten to walk away from a scheme that they cant deliver on, because they have not got the class and they blame English Heritage for it and everyone else but it is they who are at fault.
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2012/02/23/peel-holdings-issue-ultimatum-over-5-5bn-waters-scheme-as-battle-lines-drawn-over-biggest-development-in-liverpool-s-history-99623-30385950/

Eddy Rhead of the Manchester Modernists says in the Architects Journal http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/peel-not-afraid-to-walk-away-from-liverpool-waters/8626972.article#commentsubmitted
 The arrogance of Peel and Lindsey Ashworth in particular holds no bounds. The fact they are prepared to take their ball home with them if they dont get to win is typical and shows their lack of commitment to sustainable development. Ashworth is the one, when faced with criticism from English Heritage and UNESCO that Lverpool Waters would threaten Pier Head's World Heritage Site status claimed "We are right and they are completely wrong".


Wayne backed Eddy up
Call my Bluff is a game this arogant developer Peel Holdings and its oily rags are used to playing.

Only this time they are playing it with a Unesco World Heritage Site and the city council...Peels poodles are allowing them to do what they want only to lose us the coveted title.

Why not look to Amsterdam for inspiration and how they are able to build humane sustainable architecture around its historic waterways?

Why would you want to turn a WHS into Milton Keyne-on-Sea it makes no sense.

The fact of the matter is the developers do not have the class to deliver and will flip the schem if planning permission is granted.
http://condensedthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/02/liverpool-waters-will-sink-city.html

Trafford Park-On-Mersey is just not good enough for my city.

Now the hole in the wall gang John Whittaker and his Lap-Dogs, not content with stealing our World Heritage Site in a smash and grab are whacking hell out of Jesse Hartleys Dock Wall, some of the finest masonry, built by Napoleonic prisoners of war, in the country in a seperate planning application.
 http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2012/02/28/peel-apply-for-permission-to-knock-down-part-of-dock-wall-in-liverpool-waters-scheme-99623-30421516/

Liverpool Waters-A Second Rate Presentation for a Third Rate Scheme.

It looks like a bunch of amateurs have set up an exhibition for Liverpool Waters scheme that will destroy Liverpool's World Heritage Site.
Well one could hardly call the ruthless and sinister Peel Holdings amateurs could one.
It is on in Lord Street Liverpool in the old Specsavers shop, for two days only, Friday 24th February and Saturday the 25th February.

Obviously the architects who drew up the third rate scheme, should have gone to.............

Peel Holdings Submit Planning Application To Smash Open Historic Dock Wall.

Planning application no 12L/0428
Proposal To alter dock boundary wall. To enlarge existing opening of dock boundary wall at Princess Dock.
Create new opening at Junction of Dublin Street and Regent Road. Installation of new gate piers.


While all the fuss is going on over the application for Liverpool Waters Lindsey Ashworth has sliced an application into the planners to knock a hole in the Grade II listed Dock wall.
This was built by Napoleonic Prisoners of War and has always been held in such esteem by consecutive planners that it could not be touched.

Liverpool waters plans are incoherent CABE and EH say..........why are they being so devious to knock these plans in now?
 Are they hoping no-one will notice.

Is Joe Anderson The Biggest threat To Liverpools Skyline Since The Lufftwaffe.

"World Heritage Status Is just a badge on the wall in the Town Hall" he says.  How does a city manage to elect a council leader with such a lack of culture?
He said in a published article on the 2nd January that Peel Holdings Liverpool Waters is worth sacrificing the World Heritage Site for. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/01/02/liverpool-council-leader-joe-anderson-says-city-would-sacrifice-world-heritage-status-for-liverpool-waters-scheme-in-new-year-report-100252-30044864/
LIVERPOOL council leader Joe Anderson today used his New Year report to reaffirm his commitment to the £5bn Liverpool Waters transformation of the city’s waterfront, despite it potentially coming at the price of losing the city’s World Heritage Site status.
The Labour councillor highlighted the benefits of north docklands regeneration citing the possible creation of 20,000 jobs and complete transformation of a large deprived area of north Liverpool.
A recent inspection by a UNESCO committee revealed the very real danger that the organisation’s opposition to parts of the project could scupper the city’s heritage status
But Cllr Anderson made clear his priorities for 2012. He said: “Turning Peel Holdings (the developer) away doesn’t say to the world that Liverpool is a thriving modern city. It says we’re a city that is stuck in the past.

“You really do need to see the scale of this project to understand just how much impact it could have.

“This, very simply, would transform our city. It is too big an opportunity to let slip by.
“The city’s leading Lib-Dem, Richard Kemp, says that World Heritage Site status is more important than the Liverpool Waters Scheme.
“The Lib-Dem would turn away 20,000 jobs and £5bn of regeneration, all for the sake of a certificate on the wall in the Town Hall.
“I say that’s madness. Whatever happens in 2012, let me be absolutely clear about one thing: we will back Liverpool Waters.”


 http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/180198-scrap-heritage-site-status-if-waters-is-threatened-says-dlib.html The speech seems reminiscent of a previous outburst by Frank McSpiv. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/joe-anderson-sitting-far-too-close-to.html

Are they far too close?
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/06/frank-mckenna-suckles-at-breast-of-joe.html


Or is it Pearls before swine? http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/03/liverpools-world-heritage-site-pearls.htmls


This is the town that knocked the Cavern Club down lets not forget.
In the name of progress it was claimed.
Send in the Clowns. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2012/01/unesco-warn-liverpool-for-final-time.html Unesco say the scheme would destroy the OUV of the WHS.

Cllr Anderson has quite a lot of business buddies, for sure, his friends at Downtown Liverpool in business seem quite important to him.
DLIB members Peel Holdings seem to have some hold over him.http://blogs.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/dalestreetblues/2011/11/joe-anderson-and-max-steinberg.html He went to Frank McKenna's Xmas do where another old labour Dinosaur, Derek Hatton turned up.

 This was in Cllr Gary Millars gaff in Parr Street. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/09/councillor-gary-millar-set-to-make.html
Remember Derek Hatton and his power grab, is history repeating itself?.
In the 80's when Hatton and his fellow militant conspirators who hijacked the labour party did more damage to the image of Liverpool than the Toxteth riots did. At least the rioters got the Albert Dock restored when the spotlight turned to those inner cities.
Remember how overnight he, as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, sent in the  bulldozers to destroy the Georgian quarter of Clayton Square, a listed Conservation area with numerous grade II listed buildings of character and of architectural note. Is history repeating itself.
This, it was alleged in the Sunday Times was when he was acting as a "consultant" to the developers.
 It is now a third rate shopping centre that has little character. it needed the Times to investigate the things that everyone in Liverpool knew, right in front of the labour card carrying reporters at the Daily Ghost and the local Echo.
Joe"Your Scum" Anderson http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/12/joe-anderson-youre-scum.html now seems content to assist Peel Holdings in the decimation of the character of what makes Liverpool a Mercantile and Maritime world heritage Site.
Is it because of the huge investment in the destruction of Liverpool's World Heritage Site he has made with them...............that we the ratepayer paid for.
 http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/Unesco-tells-city-to-think-again-over-Liverpool-Waters
 Is it because he became quite friendly with Lindsay Ashworth of Peel while over in Shanghai that cost us the ratepayers over a million quid.
Joe Anderson is about to become the latter day Herman Goering and knock the bollox out of the city, or whats left of the soul of the world heritage site, that the last lot of corrupted Fib-Dem balloons didn't get.
Capital of Culture you really are having a laugh.

Peel Holdings plans for, Pinewood Studios Housing Development rejected

From Mike Hafhy at NW Business News


PINEWOOD Shepperton, the film & TV studios business which was bought by Peel Holdings for £96.1m in July, has had its bid to develop a £200m housing scheme rejected by the government.
The company had been planning the development, known as Project Pinewood, for almost five years and has spent around £7.6m in a bid to try and get it through the planning process.
It was to consist of 1,400 homes around streetscapes built to look like various overseas cities - Paris, New York and Amsterdam, for example. These would be sold to homeowners but also used as backdrops to film sets on greenbelt land next to its existing Buckinghamshire studio complex.
However, following a public inquiry, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has refused permission for the scheme.
In a statement, Pinewood Shepperton said that it was "disappointed" by the decision. "The company will now take time to review the decision in detail."
It said that the investment made both in the land and the costs of pursuing the application were "not material".

"The company will continue to implement its master planning consents at Pinewood and Shepperton studios and pursue its international strategy of developing studios overseas."

Peel Holdings Win Carbuncle Cup-What Hope Is There For Liverpools World Heritage Site?

Yes, they, at Peel Holdings, managed it, an award for carbunculating Salford with an architectural atrocity that is that bad it even knocked the new Museum of Liverpool into second place in the same competition.

Media City Salford scoops the award for the worst development of 2011.

The BBC put a brave face on it with a little snapshot on BBC Northwest.
The regional director was asked about the Carbuncle Cup award for their new home. "Well it suited our needs" he said. Two years ago when the Terminal Ferry Carbuncle won and One Park Gone West came fourth, there was extensive coverage. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/08/liverpool-wins-carbuncle-cup.html
They, at the BBC ran a series on name your carbuncle. Ed Thomas now on national BBC said it was great, it caused a sensation, tapping into something, the phone lines were on fire.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/09/museum-of-liverpool-runner-up-in-2011.html


"Which truly creative person would ever want to work in such a place?" The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey

A `crime against the built environment'… A `lack of urban vitality' are just some of the nicer things said about Peel Holdings' MediaCityUK site as it won Building Design magazine's Carbuncle Cup today – given to the year's worst building.
The sterilized Media City site even held off the squashed oblong that is the new Liverpool Museum to take the least coveted architectural prize in the country.

What Salford Star call MINGIN' MEDIA CITY

"…a city is the last thing one would mistake this development for"
http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=1084 You have to read the local opinion!!!!!!!!!!
 They go on, on their firebrand style webspace that holds no punches and tells the truth.

Referring to the BBC's move to MediaCityUK, the Carbuncle Cup commendation states that "it is hard to see how the corporation could set its aspirations any lower… Following the Blue Peter garden's recent relocation to Salford, one can only presume that the newly reinterred Petra must be turning in her grave."

Yes, Peel Holdings' flagship "crime against the built environment" absolutely stormed the award for the worst building in the UK today. The jury - architecture critics, Rowan Moore of the Observer, Hugh Pearman of the Sunday Times and the Guardian's Jonathan Glancey – were unanimous in their verdict that the £600million Salford Quays site visually stinks.

The commendation states that Media City "had every opportunity to be a piece of city to be treasured for centuries to come". Instead we got "a crazed accumulation of development, in which every aimlessly gesticulating building sports at least three different cladding treatments. The overriding sense is one of extreme anxiety on the part of the architects - an unholy alliance of Wilkinson Eyre, Chapman Taylor and Fairhursts."
It adds that "There is no urban idea to speak of whatsoever - no space that one might recognise as a street; no common architectural language; no difference between the fronts and backs of buildings; no distinction between the civic buildings and the private ones…"
It concludes: "No-one can be too surprised that Peel Holdings…is behind MediaCityUK but quite how the BBC has stooped this low is hard to fathom..."

http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=1031

http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=1075

Media City community money scandal Part 1 and 2,(worth a read)   http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=835       

PEEL HOLDINGS, WHO HAVE SUBMITTED PLANS TO CARBUNCULATE WHATS LEFT OF THE LIVERPOOL WORLD HERITAGE SITE WITH ARCHITECTURE THAT IS EVEN WORSE THAN MEDIA CITY.

Then they are building Wirral Waters with abysmal style architectural, of crass design, of the same style, that has just found them awarded the Carbuncle Cup for.

Just look what they have done on Princes Dock already, turning it into MILTON KEYNES-ON-SEA  http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/04/milton-keynes-on-sea.html 

Further Reading

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/liverpool-malmaison-facade-is-falling.html

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/02/liverpool-waters-glass-pie-in-sky-we.html

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/09/liverpool-world-heritage-city.html

Liverpool City Council should take a long hard look on where they are spending our hard earned ratepayers money, though a decision has been put back until Unesco inspectors visit the Liverpool Waters site................all the warning signs are there already.

http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=838

LIVER BUILDING DENIGRATION-By Liverpool City Council

 Why are we paying Liverpool city council officials to bring down the Liver Buildings as a symbol of the city?
To Denigrate them.


Why are they intent on continually scraping together as much negativity about the Liver buildings as they possibly can.

To Denigrate them.


Why does every council official, that you pay, at the earliest opportunity slag off the Icon of the city?

 To Denigrate them.

Why are these people being allowed to get away with propagating untruths?

Is it opinion for hire Peter de Figueiredo http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/09/peter-de-figueiredo-opinion-for-hire.html who was the Historic Buildings advisor for English Heritage when Liverpool Vision put the idea for the ier Head forward? 

Who is now employed by Peel Holdings.

Well its easy the World Heritage Site has been destroyed and they want you the public to believe there was some almighty controversy surrounding Liverpool's waterfront. See pic above of the Port Of Liverpool Buildings now,with a giant Lean-To.   http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/07/museum-of-liverpool-nominated-for.html 

There was no controversy whatsoever, there may have been debate and sour grapes on the part of the owners of the Port of Liverpool Building who wanted their building to be the symbol of the city............and that's it.

 There is no credible reason for anyone to state there was controversy at the time of the building of the Port of Liverpool Buildings and the Liver.

Unless you had no pride in the city and had vested interests in slagging off the Liver Buildings.

So lets ask who it is doing it, Joe Anderson recently defended Peel Holdings proposals several times by slagging off the Liver Buildings believing that if he says it enough times the public would believe it.......what is the point in that, why bring down your city. Why Denegrate.

http://m.bdonline.co.uk/comment/debate/is-liverpool-waters-a-threat-to-the-city%E2%80%99s-heritage?/5021960.article
He says "This week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the iconic Liver Building. At the time of its construction, it too was hugely controversial and divided opinion. A century on, a Liverpool waterfront without the Liver Building is completely unthinkable". 
This was in BD magazine. See Terminal Ferry Carbuncle above for controversy.

Every opportunity they send a councillor out to top up the untruths....so you may believe them eventually.
Paul Brandt did the same denigrating speech, yards away from me while I was waiting to do a BBC Northwest interview, he did almost say “When they built the Liver Buildings, err hundreds, err, and then covered himself, err, tens of years ago”, reminiscent of the famous Warren Bradley “When they built the Liver Buildings 800 years ago” speech on BBC.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?http://www.liverpoollabour.org/NewsandPictures/Warren_Bradley_Confusion_Over_Three_Graces.aspx The Labour Party even have a swipe at him on their website.
Paul Brandt was very active before the last election. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/mann-island-is-penny-finally-dropping.html
Talking about The Three Black Coffins at Mann Island, he said.
 “I like the buildings. I think they’re great buildings, but I think they’re in the wrong place or on the wrong scale or massing. (Clever man).
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/04/26/protected-views-of-liverpool-s-three-graces-lost-to-new-mann-island-development-92534-26317623/
Funny That I didn’t see him or hear him objecting he then continues.
It seemed to me to be madness to be downgrading views of some of our architectural heritage in a way that might make it less attractive to visit, especially as these areas were deemed to be so exemplar that they were given World Heritage status.
“It’s a major piece of investment and what was there before – the Mann Island car place – was hardly exemplar.”
He added that the building’s impact on the views has not taken him by surprise because he had looked at models of the area before they were built.
But he said: “I’m deeply disappointed that those views are now being lost. It’s bizarre that Liverpool residents now have to go to Birkenhead to see that best view of the Three Graces.”

Interesting...............

So is it a Liverpool City Council directive, right from the top that states, if you get any opportunity slag off the Liver Buildings, while you are there make up a load of bull about controversy a hundred years ago and then this may justify the current carbunculation crop?

Is it because they want Joe Andersons friends at Peel Holdings and their lobby group DLIB, led by Frank McSpiv, to be given a free hand, something that Unesco will now stop, by giving the DCMS directives, that will in turn be passed on with planning orders, to the inept and pathetic Liverpool planners, who cant even read their own planning documents.

That were prepared to stop, under Unesco directive, them cocking up the rest of the WHS, away from the Liver Buildings. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/07/liverpool-waters-back-to-drawing-board.html

pic Joe Anderson with Lindsay Ashworth of Peel Holdings

So lets see if you, if you the public, believe the Liver Building lies, could you then be stupid enough to think that the complete architectural carbunculation of Liverpool's Pier Head, a World Heritage Site will be alright, because in some distant time in the past it was all thought to be controversy and you will all love it one day.

If I tell you enough times Joe Anderson is clever and understands our architectural history, will you believe me..............not a chance.

They have cocked it up the symbol of the city Joe Anderson as part of Liverpool Vision did it, and they at the Council, think if they lie to you often enough it will pull the wool over the public eyes.

I think the good people of Liverpool are clever enough to see through the LIVER BUILDING LIES and see the only thing that is controversial about the Liver buildings is why our own city council are spreading them.

Remember what we had.

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/05/liverpool-world-heritage-site-before-it.html

UNESCO SLAM LIVERPOOL WATERS, at the 35th World Heritage Committee Meeting.

It looks like curtains to me for Liverpool Waters in its present form.
Slammed by English Heritage, attacked by CABE (and that says something).
Now Unesco tell the UK government that if this scheme goes ahead it will lose the OUV of the WHS and that will ultimatly lead to the loss of the WHS status.
Note that the decision is not directed to the Liverpool City Council but to what they call the State Party, or the UK government, via the DCMS.
There can be no doubt that the Spivs at Liverpool City Council both past and present will be sick about this, and the arrogant Peel Holdings will now jump up and down like spoilt brats because they cant get their own way.
The reality is that it is a horrid scheme that should never have got off the starting block.
The idea to recreate Shanghai in Liverpool is absurd.
I myself want to see the docks restored, it is not my fault that Peel Holdings choose to ship jobs down to Port Salford and then carbunculate the WHS.
Maybe this will make them now look to Amsterdam for a more humane sustainable development that works well around its historic waterways...............because if they don't.


118. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (United Kingdom) (C 1150)

Decision: 35 COM 7B.118

The World Heritage Committee,

1. Having examined Document WHC-11/35.COM/7B.Add,

2. Expresses its extreme concern at the proposed development of Liverpool Waters in

terms of the potential impact of its dense, high and mid-rise buildings on the form and

design of the historic docks and thus on the Outstanding Universal Value of the

property;

3. Notes that the independent Impact Assessment commissioned by English Heritage

clearly sets out the significantly damaging negative impact on the Outstanding

Universal Value of the property;

Decisions report WHC-11/35.COM/20, p. 150

4. Also notes that the proposed development is not in compliance with the property

Management Plan nor with the Liverpool Urban Development Plan;

5. Urges the State Party to ensure that these proposals are not approved, as failure to

do so could lead to consideration of loss of the Outstanding Universal Value of the

property;

6. Requests the State Party to invite a joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive

monitoring mission, as soon as possible, to assess planning procedures and the

overall development strategies for the property;

7. Also requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February

2012, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and on the

implementation of the above, examination by the World Heritage Committee at its


36th session in 2012.
 
http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2011/whc11-35com-20e.pdf

We In Liverpool Pay To Help Peel Holdings With Its Wirral Waters Venture

It is reported today by Alex Turner
PEEL has unveiled plans to build a £130m International Trade Centre (ITC) by the River Mersey to house more than 1,000 Chinese companies that want to trade in the UK and Europe.

The developer, which is behind the Liverpool and Wirral Waters schemes, as well as the Trafford Centre and Media City, in Manchester, has identified two possible locations for the two million sq ft development.
They are West Float, in Birkenhead, and the former Bridgewater Paper Mill, near Ellesmere Port, which are both already part of Peel’s land bank.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2011/03/10/130m-peel-trade-centre-wants-to-attract-1-000-chinese-firms-to-river-mersey-setting-92534-28310954/

He goes on, without a question on the foundation of his reportage.

Peel’s development director, Lindsey Ashworth, has already met with potential investors in Beijing and Shanghai, and was encouraged by their response.

He credits Peel’s involvement with Liverpool’s Pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai last year as providing the platform for the ambitious ITC plans.

“It’s led out of the Expo – our involvement with that has boded very well with the Chinese people, and we just want to keep building on that relationship,” said Mr Ashworth.

Wirral Council leader, Cllr Jeff Green, said: “Given our active support for this project, we believe that the West Float site, with its outstanding links to road, rail and port facilities, is the best site for the International Trade Centre as it will also kick-start a chain of development at the Wirral Waters site.”

Leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council, Mike Jones, added: “The Peel Group’s plans would be a huge boost to Ellesmere Port’s economy, potentially creating thousands of jobs locally and attracting trade from across the world.

“If the project were to come to fruition, the benefits to the town would be incredible and go a long way towards our over-arching regeneration plans for the area – with benefits to both local residents and businesses alike.”

Never Once questioning the fact that we in Liverpool sponsored the Shanghai Expo to the tune of 1.2 million pounds The Daily Ghost just want any old wollap of news to glitz up in a glossy spin......without thinking about it.  

The Mersey Partnership chief executive Lorraine Rogers added: "The concept fits well with the superport plan which has excellent connectivity and infrastructure at its core.

"An International Trade Centre has the potential to open up links with international markets that could accelerate economic growth in the area."
Peel said the decision on which site they will progress with is “for a later date”, but it is pressing ahead with planning applications for both sites. Mr Ashworth expects to lodge the applications at the start of May with the process to be completed by autumn. The development could be completed by the end of 2014.
It added that the sites in Wirral and Ellesmere Port could both be developed, depending on the level of interest, with the potential for them to be focused on different product areas.

Though it may be good news for the region. And these pages have been supportive of Wirral Waters, they don't have a WHS http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/07/joe-anderson-backs-peel-holdings-wirral.html Why does our council leader sponsor the Wirral.
 http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/wirral-waters-not-called-in-good-news.html
Why do we have to pay to ship jobs on to the Wirral Peel are already shipping most of the Port of Liverpool to Salford right under Blind Bills nose.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/09/is-bill-gleeson-peel-holdings-spiv.html  

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/joe-anderson-spiving-for-peel-holdings.html
With a spiv in every corner Peel can do no wrong.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/10/trinity-smoking-mirrors-peels-poodles.html


We are the ones who have been Shanghai-ed by a slight of hand here.
How long can this rubbish reporting go on, not very long according to Correspondent.
http://condensedthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/03/daily-ghost-to-go-weakly.html

Daily Ghost to go weakly

English Heritage Slam Liverpool Waters.

Looks like those arrogant bastards who are Peel Holdings have had a dent to their over inflated egos.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/09/peel-holdings-arrogant-bastards.html

Or is this a game that the English Heretics who sanctioned some of the worst architectural disasters since Goering sent wave after wave of the Luftwaffe over during the blitz, to bomb the gubbings out of us, are playing to look like they are going through the motions.
HENRY OWEN-JOHN the Regional Development Director is, in my opinion, a disgrace to his profession but he has now come out publicly against Peel.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/05/henry-owen-john-english-heretic.html

We broke the depressing news that another, slimy, in my opinion, character, and ex English Heretic, is employed by Peel.
 http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/09/peter-de-figueiredo-opinion-for-hire.html Opinion for hire, (to the highest bidder) Peter de Figueiredo.
 http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-polices-heritage-police.html


 
We are not messing around with Liverpool's corrupted planning system anymore we are applying our energies to the DCMS who are legally obliged to protect the WHS.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/02/liverpools-dodgy-planners-and-its.html

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/12/peel-holdings-being-helped-by-liverpool.html

Yesterday David Bartlett who is doing a good job tracking this planning process reported.


THE regional head of English Heritage last night warned it would fight the £5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme – unless Peel agreed to make further changes to its plans.
Henry Owen-John said Peel had a “significant” way to go to persuade English Heritage that it should back the scheme and that it would not damage the city’s World Heritage Site.
Peel Holdings wants to regenerate the city’s northern docklands with a series of skyscrapers, claiming it will create more than 25,000 jobs and 14,000 apartments in a £5.5bn development.
Last year Lindsey Ashworth, director of investment for Peel Holdings, said he was not prepared to make any more changes after already substantially reducing the size of the development which Liverpool council planners are currently considering.
If English Heritage lodges an objection and the city grants planning permission, the scheme would automatically be referred to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles – dramatically increasing the chances of a lengthy and costly public inquiry.
Mr Owen-John also revealed that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has notified Unesco, which oversees World Heritage Sites, about the Liverpool Waters project.
Unesco’s specialist advisers are currently preparing a report on the scheme.
English Heritage has also commissioned an independent report into the potential impact of the scheme.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Post, Mr Owen-John said: “We fully support the principle of developing the area. Clearly it is a brownfield site at the moment which is inaccessible and there is real opportunity that could have enormous benefit for Liverpool widely and north Liverpool particularly.
“I think we have come a long way in three years and we are appreciative of the changes that Peel have made.
“The scheme is now very significantly different, there were many more tall buildings.
“The adjustments that have been made are clearly significant from Peel’s point .
“We feel, despite that, we are not quite there in being able to reach agreement with Peel.”

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2011/02/24/english-heritage-demand-more-changes-to-liverpool-waters-92534-28225547/

Read more here.

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/liverpool-waters-public-inquiry-is.html

 And what is the world heritage waste of space John, "backbone of a jellyfish" Hinchliffe doing...well probably the same as ever..........nothing.
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-hinchliffe-liverpools-world.html