Sefton Local Plan - Scoping Consultation 2026
Design, Placemaking, and Heritage
What the Plan Must Do
- Set clear expectations for high-quality design.
- Protect and enhance heritage assets and conservation areas.
- Incorporate national design guidance and local character.
Issues to Consider
- Ensuring quality and character in new developments.
- Protecting the heritage in Sefton’s towns and villages and bringing back into viable use vacant and derelict assets.
- Buildings, outdoor areas and neighbourhoods that are well-designed and ‘fit for purpose’ and easy to adapt to people’s needs and mobility.
- The role of open space, landscaping and recreation areas in well-designed places.
- Designing to make places accessible and create lifetime neighbourhoods.
Tell us ...
- What makes places in Sefton distinctive?
- How can new development improve the character of the borough?