A consultation has been launched on how future developments across Liverpool can improve the surrounding environment.
Liverpool Council has established a six-week public engagement exercise on its public realm strategy as it looks to embrace the idea of “20-minute neighbourhoods” to provide amenities within walking and cycling distance. This would support the city’s ambition to become a UNICEF child-friendly city.
The council will also seek to ensure developers deliver quality schemes that fit its vision through the introduction of a ‘design ‘toolkit’ for different types of spaces including streets, parks and squares. Developers will be required to show how these design requirements are embedded into proposals.
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Following the consultation the council will aim for the strategy to be formally adopted. It will be used to guide future planning applications.
A series of projects have been identified as ‘exemplar’ projects to illustrate how the strategy’s principles could be applied. These include Monument Place, Dale Street, St George’s Gateway, Town Hall and Castle Street, and Baltic Green.
The consultation will run until Monday 9th May and can be accessed through Liverpool Council’s website. Councillor Sarah Doyle, Cabinet member for Development and Economy, said: “I want Liverpool to be defined by how inclusive our neighbourhoods are – every bit as much as we are renowned for our world-class cultural heritage.
“Liverpool’s future should have quality public realm written right through it and it’s vital our residents help shape the spaces they live, travel, work and play in. I urge all residents to have their say and get involved in our public consultation.”
Cllr Doyle said the council wants Liverpool to be a “thriving, sustainable, and fair city for everyone” and the public realm strategy would go towards achieving that aim. She added: “By creating streets and spaces that are fun, inclusive, safe and exciting places to be we’re putting the building blocks in for Liverpool to be a greener, healthier and more welcoming city fit for the environmental and economic challenges and opportunities the 21st century is presenting.
“I hope everyone gets involved in this consultation because their feedback will be vital to ensuring Liverpool is a city for the people, by the people and of the people.”
