Construction has officially started on BDP Pattern’s £500m Everton stadium three weeks after it was held partly to blame for Liverpool losing its Unesco World Heritage Site status.

An Everton-branded excavator made the first incision into the eastern quayside of the grade II-listed Bramley-Moore Dock this morning at an event attended by the club’s chairman Bill Kenwright and senior construction staff.

When the 53,000-seat stadium is complete, the historic dock will be almost completely infilled with half a million tonnes of sand.

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