Editing Queen Elizabeth 2 (section)

===2011 move to Liverpool plan, Port Rashid and ''QE2'' development plans===
On 28 September 2011 news circulated that a plan was being formulated to return QE2 to the United Kingdom by berthing her in Liverpool.<ref name="liverpool">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/captain-greybeard/2011/09/a-liverpool-home-for-historic.html |title=A Liverpool home for historic liner QE2? Don't tell the Dubai owners |access-date=2 October 2011 |date=28 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003215307/http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/captain-greybeard/2011/09/a-liverpool-home-for-historic.html |archive-date=3 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Liverpool has a historic connection with [[Cunard Line]] being the first British home for the line as well as housing the iconic [[Cunard Building]].<ref name="savetheqe2"/>

It was revealed that [[Liverpool Vision]], the economic development company responsible for Liverpool's regeneration,<ref>{{cite web|title=Liverpool Vision Homepage|url=http://www.liverpoolvision.co.uk/Default.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026191008/http://www.liverpoolvision.co.uk/Default.aspx|archive-date=26 October 2011}}</ref> has been involved in confidential discussions with Out of Time Concepts, a company headed by a former Chief Engineer on the ship, who recently advised its current owners<ref name="savetheqe2"/> on plans to turn it into a luxury hotel in [[Dubai]].<ref name="liverpool" />

In a letter from Out of Time Concepts to Liverpool Vision, it was explained that "The free global media attention derived from bringing home ''Queen Elizabeth 2'' will without question promote Liverpool's new waterfront developments, its amazing architecture, its maritime and world heritage sites, its museums, its culture and its history".<ref name="savetheqe2"/><ref name="liverpool" />

On the same week that the Liverpool Vision plans were revealed, Nakheel stated that plans for ''QE2'' to be berthed at The Palm had been dropped because they now planned to build 102 houses on the site which was once intended to be named the QE2 Precinct.<ref name="savetheqe2"/><ref>{{cite web|title=QE2 Palm Plan Sinks|url=http://dubai-waterfront.com/featured/796/qe2-palm-jumeirah-plan-sinks-as-nakheel-floats-townhouse-project-instead|access-date=13 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630142328/http://dubai-waterfront.com/featured/796/qe2-palm-jumeirah-plan-sinks-as-nakheel-floats-townhouse-project-instead|archive-date=30 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=New Home for QE2|url=http://oceanlinersblog.org/?p=3008|access-date=2 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425013827/http://oceanlinersblog.org/?p=3008|archive-date=25 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Rebecca Bundhun |url=http://www.thenational.ae/business/property/qe2-palm-jumeirah-plan-out-as-nakheel-floats-townhouse-project-instead |title=QE2 Palm Jumeirah plan out as Nakheel floats townhouse project instead&nbsp;– The National |publisher=Thenational.ae |date=25 May 2010 |access-date=10 May 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422212117/http://www.thenational.ae/business/property/qe2-palm-jumeirah-plan-out-as-nakheel-floats-townhouse-project-instead |archive-date=22 April 2012}}</ref>

Nakheel suggested that ''Queen Elizabeth 2'', under the ownership of Istithmar, would remain at Port Rashid to become an integral part of the growing cruise terminal. "The ''QE2'' would be placed in a much better location", Ali Rashid Lootah, the chairman of Nakheel, told Dubai's The National newspaper "The Government of Dubai is developing an up-to-date modern cruise terminal which will mean a better environment", confirming the ship would remain in Dubai for the foreseeable future.