With Peel's Liverpool Waters scheme back in the news this week, we decided to get this infographic drawn up to show the huge scale of the £5.5bn project.

As you can see it dwarfs Liverpool One in scale, and a football pitch is miniscule in comparison.

Liverpool 2011 RMM Mission Report FINAL (1)

It was nearly there.

It survived two rounds of savage council cuts, £15.6m has so far been spent on its redevelopment, and there was even a date set for completion.

But sadly, it seems, the cuts might have caught up with grand plans for Southport Cultural centre.

ONCE upon a time the most complicated maths football fans were required to do was adding and subtracting goal difference at the end of a tense season.

Now the hardened supporter finds him or herself delving into balance sheets and the accounts of their football club to attempt to glean an insight into the financial health of their chosen team.

What happens off the field is as important, if not more so, than what happens when 11 men get a 90-minute workout on a Saturday afternoon.

Put simply, fans know that for their team to succeed their club needs to be rich.

I suspect George Clarke will have reached hero status among many housing campaigners across the country.

I have had the privilege of reporting on communities in both Merseyside and Lancashire touched by the Pathfinder project and have heard virtually all sides of the debate.

Supporters always tell you that more houses are renovated then demolished, the figures even back this up.

It is also true to say that in some areas people were living in substandard housing and wanted action to be taken and wanted to move.

But this was by all means not everywhere, and for every supporter of Pathfinder or Housing Market Renewal Initiative (HMRI) I will show at least one opponent (probably many more).

Today I've reported how Liverpool was warned by Unesco it is preparing to strip the city of its World Heritage Site status unless radical changes are made to the £5.5bn skyscraper scheme.

It is precisely the news that was feared by many, you can read it HERE.

To say the city council is now between a rock and a hard place is an understatement.

It has on the one side Peel Holdings promising to create thousands of jobs and regeneration on a huge scale. Who can blame the council for wanting to encourage the development?

I caught up with Unesco inspector Ron van Oers yesterday as he was starting his inspection of Liverpool's World Heritage Site.

Above is a brief interview outside Liverpool town hall.

Unesco inspectors today start a three-day fact finding mission to see whether Liverpool's World Heritage Site is safe.

Their main cause for concern is the planned £5.5bn skyscraper scheme to regenerate the city's northern docklands.

They have already been handed a 163-page dossier which Liverpool council hopes will help show the WHS is in good hands. Download it here: WHS_dossier.pdf

The council has also prepared a FAQ on the visit. The FAQ is clearly has a council slant on it, but I thought it worth sharing, here it is included below:

With a densely populated country like England it will never be easy to come to a decision about a significant expansion to the country's transport infrastructure, especially when such a decision involves crossing from one part of the country to the other.

That said just because a choice is hard and opposition is loud, doesn't mean that such a decision shouldn't be made.

And with High Speed 2 we have both, as well as emotions running high on either side of the argument.

The No lobby with cries of; cost and environment, the Yes lobby with cries of; growth, jobs and connectivity, added to that, in the North, there is a real necessity to expand private enterprise and to balance our economy, so moving away from an over-dependence on the public sector.

Liverpool FC's stadium saga is a story fans are well accustomed to.

Under the previous ownership of Tom Hicks and George Gillett it was one of delays and broken promises.

Now under the guidance of John Henry the club is keen not to over promise but is now facing considerable problems. But it is clear that Henry would prefer to stay at Anfield because of its heritage, and because it is cheaper than moving to an all singing all dancing new ground in Stanley Park.

But the club has come up against the city council that wants it to keep to its previous commitment to move to a new ground in Stanley Park.