Safeguarding Liverpool Waterfront’s Historic Urban Landscape: How Has the Relationship between Heritage and Development Changed over the Last 40 Years? Part 2 Dissertation 2022 James Alexander Hole University of Liverpool | UK The recent de-listing of Liverpool’s World Heritage Site has brought to light the impact that current developments are having on the city’s heritage. The key question is how existing heritage can be safeguarded in a post-world heritage city before there is further damage. This study, therefore, provides a detailed analysis of how the relationship between heritage and development has changed over the past forty years on Liverpool Waterfront’s historic urban landscape. A new heritage impact assessment methodology was applied to three case study sites, analysing the impact that developments have had on the integrity, authenticity, and outstanding universal value of the historic urban landscape. These core values were assessed by comparing elements that have not been brought together in previous methodologies, ranging from urban to architectural components and their tangible and intangible domains. Additionally, interviews were carried out with experts on the Liverpool heritage context to deepen the understanding of the impact of the developments. The study concludes that adaptive reuse schemes show greater respect for the Waterfront’s historic urban landscape values, whereas urban interventions have a more harmful impact on its heritage, therefore requiring stricter controls if Liverpool’s tangible and intangible heritage context is to be safeguarded. Tutor(s) Ataa Alsalloum