Um líder de negócios do Liverpool alertou os lobistas do patrimônio que eles correm o risco de fazer com que o Liverpool pareça uma cidade que está 'fechada para os negócios' se eles continuarem a se opor ao investimento e aos desenvolvimentos da cidade em que o Business Frank McKenna O topo do Beacon de São João. Em um dos mais amplos processos de consulta da comunidade que já vimos, foram informados de que as preocupações com o status do Patrimônio Mundial verão seu esquema atrasado por meses. que estão comemorando. ”
The comments from the chief executive of leading business lobby group Downtown in Business Frank McKenna come following the decision of the city mayor to withdraw support for the proposed Zip Wire attraction from the top of St John’s Beacon.
“Zip World, having been invited by the council to explore the possibility of providing a zip wire facility in Liverpool, have invested almost half a million pounds thus far in developing the initiative. They have now been told to go back to the drawing board and look at identifying alternative plans.
“Everton Football Club, having spent a huge amount of time, money and resource on one of the widest community consultation processes we have ever seen, have been told that concerns about World Heritage Status will see their scheme delayed for months.
“We even have leading councillor’s calling for our ambitions to have a cruise liner terminal to be scrapped.
“The heritage lobby may be enjoying the unique power and influence they appear to have over Liverpool – but it is other competitor cities who are celebrating.”
Sr. McKenna continuou:
“ Tendo trabalhado tanto por mais de uma década para mudar a percepção de Liverpool de ser um caso de cesto para uma cidade que se destacaria, que se deverá ter uma pena, se o que se destacaria e, em que se devolvessem, que se devolveria para os dias de que os infestos. Se o Liverpool ainda é aspiracional para o seu futuro, ou mais interessado em proteger seu passado. We are in danger of losing our way by allowing the heritage lobby to dictate an agenda that would be more appropriate for York than for a city that wants to be a dynamic, entrepreneurial, twenty-first century city.
“Inward investors will be watching these latest developments and asking themselves if Liverpool is still aspirational for its future, or more interested in protecting its past.
“The mix of old and new is what Liverpool has been so good at promoting in recent times. We are in danger of losing our way by allowing the heritage lobby to dictate an agenda that would be more appropriate for York than for a city that wants to be a dynamic, entrepreneurial, twenty-first century city.
“Those who are badgering investors, objecting to developments and saying ‘no’ to new initiatives need to be held to account and asked where they see the new jobs, investment and economic growth coming de. ”
O chefe do DIB concluiu:
“We are about to see Liverpool take a huge economic hit from the Covid-19 crisis. We need new ideas, new projects and new investors. Driving business out of Liverpool when the city is in desperate need of jobs is about as short sighted as it gets.”
