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Annual Review 2023/24
Foreword from the Mayor
Over the last 12 months, we have taken many positive steps towards realising my ambition to make the Liverpool City Region the best place to grow up, grow a family and grow a business. While we recognise there is much more we want to achieve alongside a new government, this past year has been one of transformation for the city region.
From the thousands of jobs, training and skills opportunities we’ve created, to the vital investments we’ve made to support our residents through the cost-of-living crisis, I’m incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made to transform people’s lives for the better.
At every step of this journey, our residents have been at the heart of our decision-making. Because, for investment to mean anything, local people and communities must feel its benefits.
We’ve put an end to four decades of decline in our bus network by taking back control, opened a brand new train station served by first-of-their-kind battery-powered trains. We hosted a fortnight of fun and frivolity, that tens of millions of people around the world will never forget for Eurovision 2023 and we saw the completion of LCR Connect, our publicly owned joint venture, offering local businesses
unrivalled digital connectivity for Eurovision 2023 and we saw the completion of LCR Connect, our publicly owned joint venture, offering local businesses unrivalled digital connectivity.
Looking to the future, I want to take advantage of our strengths – and potential – and turn them into profitable businesses, creating better, greener jobs and bringing greater prosperity to local people. With further devolution of powers and funding, we can go even further to truly unleash our potential. We are home to the fastest growing city economy, have the country’s most ambitious net zero plans, massive housebuilding aspirations and a plan to tackle the productivity crisis that holds our region back.
Make no mistake: this is a place on the rise. As its Mayor, I want to build the most vibrant, growing and inclusive Liverpool City Region possible for the 1.6m people who live and work in our area to succeed.
Steve Rotheram
