A DATE for Liverpool’s planning committee to hear its biggest-ever application has finally been set – as further changes were made to the scheme.

Peel Holdings’s £5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme will go before the committee on Tuesday, March 5.

The council has been considering the application to regenerate the city’s northern docklands since October, 2010, but has now re-started consultation on the project because of fresh changes.

City council bosses and Peel Holdings are also still awaiting a report from Unesco about the outcome of an inspection mission to Liverpool’s World Heritage Site (WHS).

Inspector Ron van Oers was dispatched to the city over concerns that the huge project, which falls within the WHS, would damage its outstanding universal value.

His report is expected to arrive possibly within days.

On his visit, he left the city with clear guidance that Unesco was likely to demand the scheme be radically changed.

He will make a recommendation that will be heard by Unesco’s World Heritage Committee in the summer.

Liverpool Waters features 9,000 apartments, hundreds of offices, hotels, bars, and a cruise terminal as well as the 55-storey Shanghai Tower and other skyscrapers.