Liverpool has launched a six-week public consultation to allow people and local businesses to have their say on the city’s 15-year Local Plan.
The Business Desk reports that Liverpool’s Local Plan sets out how the city would meet the challenges of a predicted population rise of 47,000 people, by creating 35,000 new homes and developing 370 acres of land for 38,000 new jobs.
Recently endorsed by the city’s council cabinet, the draft plan has highlighted 100 detailed policies to manage this growth, building on work to protect the city’s heritage, while also including a new policy for controlling developments in the city centre.
The plan will also implement a new robust process to control the number of properties converted into homes of multiple occupations (HMOs)
The council aims to use the Local Plan to support its City Plan, which focuses on the delivery of post-pandemic recovery that will provide benefits to Liverpool residents from all walks of life.
The local plan and City Plan embody the Mayor’s and Cabinet’s commitment to better environmental, social and equality standards.
Following consultations in 2014, 2016 and 2018, the draft Local Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State in 2018 to be assessed by an independent inspector.
Due to delays from the pandemic, the inspector conducted an Examination in Public hearings in October last year to test the ‘soundness’ of the plan, at which a series of proposed Main Modifications were identified.
As a result of the inspector’s Main Modifications, the public is now being asked one final time for their feedback, but this time only on these proposed changes.
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