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Innovative projects put Liverpool City Region in the running for TWO national planning awards
The Liverpool City Region’s innovative approach to spatial development has seen two projects shortlisted for prestigious national planning awards.
Judges at the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Excellence shortlisted the Combined Authority’s Natural Capital work for the Excellence in Planning for the Natural Environment category; while LCR Listens: Our Places, its engagement project to understand local people’s views on where they live, also made the final in the Excellence in Plan Making Practice category.
LCRCA’s Natural Capital work, which is part of its Spatial Development Strategy, carefully considers the environment in new developments by finding opportunities to include Green Infrastructure and habitat provision.
Benefits include the improvement of air quality, access to nature and associated health benefits, flood and climate regulation and support of local communities to underpin a more resilient and healthier economy in the Liverpool City Region.
The Spatial Development Strategy will be the blue print for development over the next 20 years, aiming to make the city region a more prosperous, healthier and greener place to live, work, invest in, and visit.
LCR Listens: Our Places specifically targeted people from groups who traditionally do not engage with planning in their area. The engagement project set out to try and understand local people’s views on where they live, to shape the creation of the Spatial Development Strategy.
Of 2500 respondents, more than 42% were young people, more than half were from neighbourhoods among the most deprived 10% in the country, and 18% were from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities.
Running for more than 40 years, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Excellence are the most established and respected awards in the UK planning industry, celebrating exceptional examples of planning and the contribution planners make to society.
Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram said:
Councillor Graham Morgan, Portfolio Holder for Housing and Spatial Planning at the Combined Authority and Knowsley Council Leader, said:
RTPI President Wei Yang FRTPI said:
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