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Towards a Spatial Development Strategy for the Liverpool City Region up to 2040
About this engagement
How do I have my say?
- Fill in our online survey
- Send us an email: [email protected] (please ensure your responses relate to the questions asked in the document)
- Send written comments to: Spatial Planning Policy Team, No.1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP
- Hard copies of the SDS document (along with the Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) and Habitats Regulations Assessment(HRA)) will be available to view on request at the Combined Authority at No.1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP between the hours of 9am-5pm (Mon-Fri) during the engagement period.
How can I find out more?
- Read our FAQs (PDF, 122KB)
- Read our SDS Supporting Evidence below
- Visit us at one of our engagement events
If you have any questions or need help responding to the SDS engagement, contact a member of the LCR Spatial Planning team by email at [email protected] or telephone at 0151 330 1005.
Latest news
The Spatial Development Strategy for the Liverpool City Region is all about potential for developments in the region between now and 2040, and we want to make sure local views shape the future of the city region. The Combined Authority are working with PLACED to bring engagement on the Spatial Development Strategy to each Local Authority in the city region. These are fun and interactive ways to share your views at one of our events.
All events are free and open to the public and are family friendly. There’s no need to register, or have any prior knowledge about planning or development!
Coming up before Christmas…
- Tuesday 5th Dec, 11am-4pm – 1 Lagrange Arcade, St. Helens town centre, St. Helens, WA10 1BN
- Thursday 7th December, 11am-4pm – 1 Lagrange Arcade, St. Helens town centre, St. Helens, WA10 1BN,
- Thursday 14th December, 11am-4pm – Unit 49 (next to the Coffee House), at Runcorn Shopping City, Halton, WA7 2EU
- Friday 15th December, 11am – 4pm – Widnes Market, Bradley Way, Widnes, Halton, WA8 6UE
Watch this space for more details on events in Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral.
Call for Strategic Sites
The ‘Call for Strategic Sites’ is an opportunity for individuals, landowners, developers, and stakeholders to suggest potential strategic sites within the city region that are considered suitable and available for development over the next 15 years. This will inform the consideration of spatial options as part of the preparation of the SDS.
This ‘Call for Strategic Sites’ is focussing on sites for large-scale Housing, Employment and Green Infrastructure opportunities. If you have already submitted strategic-scale sites as part of the land availability assessments undertaken by the six local authorities, then there is no need to resubmit them unless you wish to provide any updated or additional information. Sites with planning permission or allocated for development in a city region authority Local Plan do not need to be submitted.
The sites or locations submitted need to be within or partially within the boundary of the Liverpool City Region covering the local authority areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral but can cross the internal local authority boundaries.
Download the relevant documents below:
- Call for Strategic Sites form (Word Doc, 74KB)
- Guidance note (PDF, 479KB )
Supporting evidence
Preparation of the SDS must be based on evidence. A range of technical studies and assessments – the evidence base – are continuously being prepared to help inform and underpin the policy approaches and cover a range of topics.
Find out about the work that has been done far.
- LCR SDS ‘We Asked, You Said, We Did’ Stage 2 (PDF, 738KB)
- LCR SDS Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) Interim Report (Oct 2023) (PDF, 834KB)
- LCR SDS Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) Interim Report (Oct 2023) (Non-Technical Summary) (PDF, 7MB)
- LCR SDS Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) Screening of Likely Significant Effects (Nov 2023) (PDF, 4MB)
- LCR SDS Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) Scoping Report (June 2021) (PDF, 3MB)
- LCR SDS Strategic Infrastructure Plan (SIP) Initial Engagement Draft (October 2023) (PDF, 8MB)
- LCR SDS Social Value Background Paper (November 2023) (PDF, 11MB)
- LCR SDS Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment (HEDNA) (June 2023) (PDF, 3MB)
- LCR SDS Strategic Housing and Employment Land Study (SHELS) (October 2023) (PDF, 2MB)
- LCR SDS Strategic B8 Report (June 2023)
- LCR Town Centre Network and Hierarchy Review (May 2022) (PDF, 756KB)
- LCR SDS Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) Part A Report Nov 2023 (November 2023) (PDF, 4MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix A (PDF, 1MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix B LCR Interactive Overview Map (PDF,
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix B Interactive Map – Halton (PDF, 27MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix B Interactive Map – Liverpool (PDF, 43MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix B Interactive Map – Knowsley (PDF, 34MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix B Interactive Map – Sefton (PDF, 60MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix B Interactive Map – St. Helens (PDF, 42MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix B Interactive Map – Wirral (PDF, 47MB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix C (PDF, 215KB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix D Climate Change Inventory (PDF, 422KB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix D Climate Change Note (PDF, 502KB)
- LCR SDS SFRA Appendix E (PDF, 377 KB)
- LCR SDS State of Nature Report (January 2022) (PDF, 14.9MB)
- LCR SDS Natural Capital Approach: A Background (Nov 2023) (PDF, 6MB)
- LCR SDS Health Overview (PDF, 482KB)
- LCR SDS Viability Information Paper (PDF, 742KB)
- LCR SDS PLACED Academy Summer School Report (PDF, 4MB)
