Issue details

Approval to commence public consultation on the Sefton Coast Plan.

The Sefton Coast offers an outstanding environment which is uniquely distinctive, and highly valued by the local community, businesses and visitors. It forms a key component of Sefton’s overall exceptional environment, as well as being one of the major natural assets of green infrastructure for the Liverpool City Region and North West as a whole. The vision is for the importance of the wonderful natural assets of the Sefton coast to be universally recognised and celebrated. The Sefton Coast Plan will focus on the management of the Sefton coast, and for it to be managed in a way which:

·       Conserves and enhances the internationally, nationally and locally important network of nature sites, habitats and species (environment)

·       Enables communities in Sefton to benefit from sustainable economic growth and successfully adapt to coastal and climate change (economy)

·       Provides long term benefits for the health and wellbeing of local communities, businesses and visitors to our coast (people)

This Plan will be produced by the Sefton Coast Landscape Partnership, working in close collaboration with partners and others, including the North West Coastal Forum. Sefton Council is a key member of the Sefton Coast Landscape Partnership and has provided the funding and staffing resource to develop the Plan. The Plan will lay out a new set of strategic priorities which will be delivered through a partnership approach to achieve a new and ambitious level of delivery that could only be achieved through the combined resources and efforts of all the Partners working together. It looks to 2030 and is integral to Sefton 2030 Vision for the Borough.