Back to Spatial Development Strategy
Towards a Spatial Development Strategy for the Liverpool City Region up to 2040
'Towards a Spatial Development Strategy' engagement
Engagement on the ‘Towards a Spatial Development Strategy for the Liverpool City Region up to 2040’ is now closed. It ran between 24th November 2023 and February 16th 2024.
About this engagement
How we use and develop land affects many aspects of our lives. It is therefore important that the people, communities and businesses of the city region have chance to influence and shape this.
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is preparing a Spatial Development Strategy (SDS). This will set out a framework for the future development and use of land in the city region looking ahead to 2040. This includes planning for homes, the economy and jobs, infrastructure and natural environment.
‘Towards a Spatial Development Strategy for the Liverpool City Region’ is a document presenting the next stage of the SDS’s development. It seeks to build on both feedback received from earlier stages of engagement, and the evidence base prepared to date.
We need your input in getting this Strategy right. This engagement is an opportunity for you to have your say on a wide range of draft policies making up the Spatial Development Strategy. We’ll then use this feedback to help refine and improve these policies as we prepare a final version of the Strategy.
Watch our short video to find out more.
Calls 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 )
Our ‘Call for Strategic Sites’ is now closed and the Spatial Planning team are considering the submissions.
Stage 3 Supporting Evidence (Nov 2023 – Feb 2024)
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)
