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Have your say on Liverpool's
15 year plan
LIVERPOOL City Council is inviting the
public to have their say on a new 15 year plan to build 29,000 new homes and to
protect public parks from being developed on.
The 6 week consultation exercise on Liverpool's draft Local Plan will seek
feedback on a series of priorities to grow the City's economy up to 2033, such
as identifying and protecting land for jobs, retail development and housing.
Residents and businesses can submit comments on this topic and a copy of the
draft plan and all associated response forms will be available
online.
Copies and forms are also available, during normal opening hours, at:-
Municipal Buildings One Stop Shop
Dale Street
Liverpool
Central Library
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EW or
ALL Community Libraries across the City.
All representations must be returned to the City Council, no
later than 5pm, on Monday, 31
October 2016, by 1 of the following methods:-
Via the City Council's Local Plan portal (link above)
Email to:-
Development.Plans@Liverpool.Gov.UK
You can also send via:-
FREEPOST RRUK-HRTT-LATT
Liverpool City Council
Planning and Building
Control
Municipal Buildings
Dale Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L2 2DH For additional queries, the public can also call the Development Plans Team on:- 0151 233 3021.
Cllr Malcolm Kennedy, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, said:- "Liverpool's Local Plan is a roadmap for the City's growth. It demonstrates our
commitment to building new homes, attracting new jobs and critically, protecting
our parks and opening up new ways for future generations to enjoy them.
Everyone living and working in Liverpool will be affected by this plan and what
it sets out to achieve; which is a healthier and more prosperous City; and we
want to hear from as many people as possible in this consultation to help us
fine tune those aims."
Liverpool's population is expected to rise to just short of half a million
people by 2033 and the draft plan, which has been in development with numerous
agencies since February 2013, has identified 81 detailed policies to manage this
growth. An initial stage of consultation on the draft Local Plan occurred in
early 2014 and the feedback from that process has been incorporated where
possible.
The key priorities in the draft Local Plan are:-
► Protect all of Liverpool's parks for the future health and wellbeing of
citizens
► Prioritise brownfield sites to allow creation of 29,600 homes by 2033
► Identify and protect brownfield over 100 hectares of land for economic growth/
regeneration / job creation
► Focus shops and services within district and local shopping centres
► Limit the concentration of Hot-Food Take-aways
► Direct new student accommodation development and control an over concentration
of houses in multiple occupation (HMO's)
Key to the draft plan is to focus future development on brownfield land, with
brownfield sites and sites already approved for housing earmarked for 29,600 new
homes and making sufficient provision for regeneration / job creation across
brownfield sites in the City's key employment areas. And based on the Mayoral
review of Green and Open Spaces, which will be published in October 2016, the Local
Plan will not just protect parks but will also respond to the findings and
recommendation of the review.
1 of the most important proposals relates to the identification and extension
of a series of corridors for walking, cycling and the linking of wildlife areas.
The review has also identified the creation of the new non motorised routes in a
bid to make Liverpool one the most environmentally friendly and healthy cities
in Europe. It will also build on the Mayor of Liverpool's Citybike scheme which
has introduced 140 bike stations since 2014.
The Council is also seeking to use planning controls in its war on obesity to by
limiting the development of hot food take aways.
This plan, which is 300 pages long in content, will replace the existing Unitary
Development Plan 2002, is a national Government requirement and will be
scrutinised by an Independent Inspector appointed by Government.
Once the consultation is completed a final version of the Local Plan will then
be independently assessed from next summer.
Subject to any legal challenges it will then be adopted by the City Council in
late 2017. |
