LIVERPOOL is not the only UK city under threat of losing a world heritage designation, it has emerged.

Unesco inspectors will this week visit London to cast their eye over developments around the Tower of London and the Palace of Westminster.

In echoes of the Liverpool world heritage debate, Unesco is concerned their status as prized buildings of world importance is being damaged by the building of skyscrapers.

Liverpool was warned it will be stripped of its World Heritage Site status if a £5.5bn skyscraper plan goes ahead without “radical” changes, when inspectors visited last month.

The three-day Unesco inspection, led by Ron van Oers, had left the city with clear guidance “100%” that, unless Peel’s Liverpool Waters project was radically changed, they will recommend the city be stripped of the World Heritage accolade. The official inspectors’ report will be written by December 23 and will then be sent to Liverpool council and Peel within two to four weeks.

Peel, having already dramatically reduced the number of skyscrapers, has indicated it is not willing to compromise its Liverpool Waters scheme further. It also reduced the height of the tallest planned building – the Shanghai tower – to 55 storeys.

Ultimate responsibility for the UK’s 28 World Heritage Sites falls to the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport.