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LIVERPOOL CITY REGION
Multi Area Agreement
SUMMARY OF PAPERS
Stakeholder Workshop, Friday March 6th 2009
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INTRODUCTION
This paper sets out summaries of the documents that make up Liverpool City Region’s
Multi Area Agreement (MAA).
The first two papers that have been summarised – The Story of Place and the
Employment and Skills Platform – were signed off by Government in January 2009
and activities are now starting to be delivered.
The Economy, Housing and Transport Platforms are currently under development and
the summaries set out the key ‘Asks’ of government and identify how they link
together and will support the delivery of the Story of Place. Negotiations are
progressing with Government in connection with the draft platforms and they are likely
to be completed by June 2009.
STORY OF PLACE- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Introducing the Liverpool City Region
The Liverpool City Region MAA covers the boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St
Helens, Wirral and the City of Liverpool. The combined population of this area is
around 1.5 million people and it forms the core of a more extensive economic zone of
influence of over 2 million people that extends into West Lancashire, Warrington, West
Cheshire and parts of North Wales.
1.2 Vision: renaissance and confidence
Our vision is to be a “thriving international City Region by 2020”. An impressive
recent renaissance has seen the Liverpool City Region become a significant driver of
growth within the North West economy, with a total value of over £17bn, 540,000 jobs
and nearly 40,000 businesses. Our track record includes:
Significant investment such as the £1bn Liverpool One that is transforming the
appearance, image and confidence of the City Region. This has been
delivered in partnership with the private sector, with public investment removing
barriers to investment and stimulating the market.
Impressive economic growth over the past ten years, including a 5.7% rise in
employment, 62% rise in total economic value, and a 21% rise in business
density. These rates have often exceeded the UK, North West and other
comparator areas.
A significantly enhanced culture and tourism offer, underpinned by Liverpool
European Capital of Culture 2008, contributing £1.2 billion to the economy.
Transformation of the City Region’s housing stock.
1.3 Significant challenges remain
Despite this rapid transformation, significant challenges remain for the Liverpool City
Region:
The GVA gap stands at £5,043 per capita and, despite significant growth in
productivity, the gap with the rest of the UK has not closed.
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Entrepreneurial activity in the City Region is still demonstrably lower than
elsewhere. At current growth rates it would take over 30 years to reach UK
business VAT registration rates.
After more than two decades of regeneration effort, the cycle of worklessness,
benefits, poor educational attainment and poor health remains a reality for
many people. Over 240,000 people in the Liverpool City Region are
economically inactive and 24.5% of super output areas in Liverpool City Region
appear in the top 5 percent of the IMD 2007 most deprived areas.
Across all skills levels the Liverpool City Region is lagging 4 – 6 % behind the
UK average. Some 20% of working age people in Liverpool City Region have
no NVQ level qualification, compared to 13.6% for the UK. This impacts on
both productivity and employment prospects.
Increasing traffic growth will start to affect business productivity and future
investment due to congestion and unreliable and delayed journeys.
Housing quality, choice and range remain an issue for parts of the City-Region
1.4 Accelerating Change: Major Opportunities / Transformational Actions
Major opportunities exist for the Liverpool City Region, with current under-performance
indicating significant additional capacity to contribute more to UK plc.
Building on its maritime heritage, the £100m investment in a new post-panamax
facility at the Port of Liverpool, combined with the fastest growing airport in the
UK and strengths in freight and logistics, provides a platform for an international
significant SuperPort.
Ambitious plans have been released for £10 billion worth of private sector
investment in Liverpool and Wirral Waters that will transform the Mersey
Waterfront, providing major commercial and residential growth opportunities,
and creating 44,000 jobs.
Building on the legacy of Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 will create a
vibrant, creative cultural and visitor sector providing a distinctive, competitive
advantage for the Liverpool City Region on which to base economic growth.
The City Region’s internationally significant knowledge economy, including
three universities and boosted by recent investments in the Daresbury Science
and Innovation Campus, National Bio-manufacturing Centre, Liverpool Science
Park and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, currently contributes around £1
billion to the economy, and has the potential to act as a driver for business
productivity and a magnet to attract key talent to the North West.
The Mersey Gateway, a second Mersey river crossing that will enhance
connectivity across the City Region and the wider North West, and act as a
catalyst for further economic growth, is due to be delivered by 2014.
The Merseyrail network has significant enhancement and expansion potential,
with the network being one of the most intensively used commuter railways
outside Southeast England.
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Harnessing the renewable energy generation potential of our tidal and coastal
assets, the strength of our existing business base in environmental and waste
technologies and the predicted growth in the global environmental technology
market provides substantial scope for a low carbon economy, driving up inward
investment and meeting the UK’s climate change responsibilities.
The Housing Growth Point Initiatives proposed for Liverpool and Wirral
(encompassing the Liverpool and Wirral Waters developments), and Halton, St
Helens and Warrington provide a real opportunity and will support economic
growth
1.5 Accelerating Change through a Multi-Area Agreement
Meeting our economic aspirations will not be achievable by ‘continuing business-
as-usual’, and requires a new way of working.
Administrative boundaries of the City Region no longer reflect real economic
and spatial geography of the wider travel to work area.
The scale of the challenges that the City Region faces cannot be met by
individual local authorities and will require the alignment of assets and resources
across the City Region.
Similarly, the potential impact of opportunities is enhanced by working together
across the City Region boundaries.
The high levels of public sector resource used to pump-prime key infrastructure
investments over the past 15 years is declining, requiring a more entrepreneurial
approach, particularly with the private sector.
We will be progressing a twin-track approach to developing the economy:
To accelerate economic growth and substantially close the productivity gap
with the rest of the UK. This will be achieved by developing our
transformational opportunities and through stronger alignment with growth
sectors within the UK economy.
To reduce worklessness across the City Region, providing routes for people to
move into employment and progress in their jobs, with a specific focus on
concentrations of deprivation in particular neighbourhoods.
1.6 New governance arrangements
The shadow Liverpool City Region Cabinet was set up in November 2008 and by
October 2009 will have moved towards a finalised city region structure that will be able
to act as an Economic Prosperity Board for the city region as envisaged in the
government’s Sub National Review of Economic Development and Regeneration.
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EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS PLATFORM - SUMMARY
1. The Asks agreed with Government:
Government and its agencies will work with the LCR to develop and agree an
Employment and Skills Strategy and Commissioning Plan;
DWP and the LCR will implement a Flexible New Deal programme which reflects
local needs and enables people to improve their skills and find employment;
A ‘Fit for Work’ plan across the LCR will see trained employment liaison officers
deliver an early intervention service for people who are in danger of falling out of
work due to a health condition or impairment;
DIUS will work with LCR partners to test new ways of delivering information, advice
and guidance services to help individuals to develop their careers or to get into
work. The LCR is one of 10 prototype areas which will explore how the voluntary
and community sector can contribute to the new Adult Advancement and Careers
Service;
A range of specific measures has also been agreed with Government to support
the delivery of the above Asks these include:
o Participation in a data sharing pilot to demonstrate the value of data sharing
and data management to achieve better outcomes in addressing
worklessness and skills issues whilst finding ways to tackle data security;
o Agreement in principle to a commissioning geography that includes Halton
o Roll out of Skills Account trials tailored to support LCR priorities.
2. How the Asks support the aspirations for economic growth as set out in the
Story of Place
The LCR vision is to be a ‘thriving international City Region by 2020’ and the agreed
Asks support this by enabling actions which will:
Ensure the supply of appropriately skilled labour to meet current and future
employer demand including higher level skills and qualifications;
Bring a greater number of people into the labour market and therefore reduce
worklessness.
Meeting our economic aspirations will not be achieved by continuing ‘business as
usual’, particularly in the light of the current economic climate. The development of an
Employment and Skills Strategy and Commissioning Plan will enable services to be
designed and commissioned differently so that they are flexible, impact on areas with
high levels of worklessness and mitigate the effects of the economic downturn.
Whilst the Asks support the effective delivery of locally determined solutions, they will
also enable the strategic co-ordination and integration of both mainstream and non-
mainstream services across the LCR.
3. How the Asks relate to those in the other platforms
Economic Platform
Improving skills levels will support the Knowledge economy which is one of the
three transformational actions underpinning the MAA. Currently skills levels within
the LCR are 4-6% behind the UK average with some 20% of working age people in
the LCR having no NVQ level qualification;
Linking the skills required to support a low carbon economy and knowledge
economy with schools, young people and higher education is also important;
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Action to reduce worklessness will enable the LCR to be in a position to ensure an
accelerated recovery from the economic downturn;
Enhanced data sharing activity will support the development and monitoring of the
economic evidence base for the LCR.
Transport Platform
Equality of travel opportunity supports economic growth by enabling people to
access training and employment opportunities and to remain in work;
The provision of tailored and co-ordinated employment support through the
Employment and Skills Asks is closely aligned with the transport proposals
requesting a long term planning and funding framework to improve access to
employment and education opportunities. This needs to relate to the wider travel
to work area.
Housing Platform
The Employment and Skills Asks will support the Housing Asks in general in
respect of quality of life issues.
Increased employment and skills levels is also strongly linked to the Ask relating to
better access to appropriate and affordable housing in that loss of housing will
negatively impact on gaining and retaining employment.
Building on pilot work of the City Employment Strategy (CES), the development of
key initiatives amongst housing providers, including the provision of in-house
Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) teams to ensure that referrals to IAG
become an integral part of housing management. This links directly to the
Employment and Skills Ask around the new Adult Advancement and Careers
Service prototype.
Trial schemes could be set up to give greater preference within allocations policies
for working households, people in training, or those willing to commit to seeking
work or training.
4. What we are delivering collaboratively ourselves with no need of additional
support from Government
Establishing an Employment and Skills Board to set the strategic framework for
public spending on adult employment and skill provision. This will result in greater
strategic co-ordination of service provision and through giving employers a
prominent role in decision making will also ensure that activity meets employer
needs. However further development of the Board to enable it to assume powers
to set the binding strategy for adults skills across the LCR is one of the specific
measures outlined in the Asks.
The development of a single employer engagement strategy will make it easier for
employers to work with the public, voluntary and community sectors
A Single Investment Framework has been developed through the CES which will
continue to enable the alignment and potential pooling of funding streams. The
effectiveness of this framework to complement mainstream Job Centre Plus and
LSC programmes is also enhanced by the agreed Asks.
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ECONOMY PLATFORM - SUMMARY
1.The Asks of Government
1.1 Developing the Liverpool City Region’s transformational ideas
The Liverpool City Region’s core economic challenges and aspirations cannot be met
through a business-as-usual approach. The Liverpool City Region, through its
economy MAA will deliver three transformational ideas that will deliver greater and
accelerated outcomes; more jobs, higher value business opportunities, more
investment, greater innovation, higher quality-of-life for residents and lower carbon
emissions. These actions are about re-engineering our economy to be globally
competitive in the future, building on our existing strengths and ensuring that the
Liverpool City Region makes a much greater contribution to UK PLC.
We are asking Government to recognise the potential that exists within the
Liverpool City Region in these areas, and formally work with us to achieve our
aims. In the short term, this will involve exploring a set of specific proposals
and assessing their impact and viability.
The following section provides a brief summary of asks in each of the three
transformational actions:
Superport
Further evidence base development is underway, but early indications include
1. In addition to the Post-Panamax Facility, Government support would continue
for other SuperPort projects such as the runway extension at LJLA and the
associated supporting infrastructure (rail and road access).
2. Ensure that future taxation changes being considered do not put the UK at a
disadvantage in the development and penetration of key markets such as air
freight.
3. Support Liverpool City Region in its attempts to establish effective
communications with London and the South East that meet the demands of a
growing business base, either through land transport or acceptable air links.
4. Acknowledgement of Liverpool Ports as ports of national significance and
subsequent equitable treatment in relation to southern-based ports, such as
Felixstowe and Southampton, with Government investment and policy creation.
5. To explore with BERR, Treasury and other relevant Departments the possibility
for certain components of SuperPort proposal, both spatial areas and key
transport infrastructure, to be designated Accelerated Development Zones.
Low Carbon Economy
The Liverpool City Region is seeking to develop itself into an internationally
recognised low carbon economy, to re-engineer its industrial base for future economic
growth, and to meet the North West’s challenging carbon reduction targets. To do this
we are seeking Government to support us in three areas:
To become self-sufficient from our indigenous renewable energy assets
This will help us to address issues of carbon reduction, energy security and fuel
poverty and allow the City Region to become a net power exporter. To do this
Government will need to:
Support the City Region in the development of major tidal power provision
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To support the City Region in the development of renewable energy
manufacturing and service sectors, and in particular in the development of tidal
energy systems.
To explore the potential for bio fuel capacity from both virgin crops and from
waste arboreal matter.
To develop a sustainable transport system.
This will require support to electrify the existing heavy-rail network and potential light-
rail development, to move the existing bus fleet towards hybrids and biofuels and
eventually towards hydrogen, to support the SuperPort concept (providing the most
carbon-efficient means of moving international freight to end destinations in the north
of the UK), and to support full connectivity to the emerging High Speed 2 rail link from
London to the North via the Liverpool City Region
To develop low carbon buildings
There is significant scope to reduce the carbon output of both public and residential
building stock within the City Region. This will have the dual advantage of reducing
occupier’s energy costs and carbon emissions whilst also providing enhanced demand
for low carbon building products and services.
Government can accelerate growth in the existing strengths of the building
sector in areas such as glazing, insulation and photo-voltaics by establishing a
Northern centre for the Building Research Establishment (BRE) within the City
Region. This would act as a focal point for low carbon research and
development and as a showcase for the technologies and practices.
Knowledge Economy
Further work is required to develop the specific asks for this transformational activity.
To this end a Knowledge Economy Steering Group has been established with
thematic groups, to develop the programmes on higher skills and infrastructure,
building on the work underway as part of the knowledge quarter. Substantial input is
still needed from partners, and TMP is following this up with Liverpool Vision and the
Universities to develop the asks in more detail.
1.3 Liverpool City Region and the Economic Downturn
The 2008 economic downturn will undoubtedly affect the City Region’s economic
performance, and we are currently working to assess the likely impact of the
downturn, and to develop measures that will accelerate our recovery. Liverpool City
Region partners are working with NWDA to put in place specific measures to respond
to these conditions, and seek to work with Government in order to ensure an
accelerated recovery.
One specific proposal has so far emerged from this work - that Government considers
extending flexibilities relating to Test Trading, as defined within the New Deal for Self
Employment programme, to enable people from deprived areas to successfully make
the transition into self employment.
2. How the Asks support the aspirations for economic growth as set out in
the Story of Place
The transformational actions are long term, ambitious aspirations for the economy of
the Liverpool City Region. They will meet our aspirations for growth by delivering
more and faster across the whole spectrum of challenges and opportunities outlined in
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the Story of Place, and all of Governments drivers of growth. This includes:
More jobs – across a range of occupational levels.
Increased skills levels – and in particular in those areas demanded by employers
More businesses, and growth in existing businesses – including supply chain creation
and stimulation and increase in the market, Inward Investment and export
opportunities
Innovation - Adaptation and transformation of the existing industrial and commercial
base
Carbon - de-coupling economic growth from carbon emissions
Market a low carbon economy as a business and social advantage to investors.
Evidence base development work has already been commissioned to quantify and
articulate the benefit of these actions
3. How the Asks relate to those in the other platforms
The economy platform paper outlines the three key transformational actions that we
will be progressing in developing the City Region economy. All MAA platforms will be
integrated with these actions, and we will be working, through the City Region cabinet,
to align regional and local decision-making to these ideas.
The specific details vary according to each transformational action.
4. What we are delivering collaboratively ourselves with no need of additional
support from Government
This MAA is part of a wider approach to developing the City Region’s economy. The
following activities are already being delivered at a City Region level in collaboration
with the NWDA, and are highlighted because of their importance to the development
of the Liverpool City Region Economy.
Tourism and Culture
Unique and competitive feature for the Liverpool City Region
Coordinated through a single Destination Management Plan
Impact of Capital of Culture 2008 and raised profile
Legacy of 2008 and delivery of key tourism and cultural infrastructure
Inward Investment
Inward Investment protocol and business plan
Enterprise and Business Growth
Enterprise and Business Growth Strategy
Links with NWDA and BSSP
Venture capital
Key Infrastructure delivery
Growth Point submissions – including Wirral and Liverpool Waters
Liverpool City Centre – Liverpool Vision Business Plan
Mersey Gateway and other major transport schemes
Knowledge infrastructure – HEIs, Daresbury and Liverpool Science Parks
City Region Housing Strategy and Action Plan
Mersey Waterfront Regional Park
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HOUSING PLATFORM - SUMMARY
1. The Asks of Government
The key points of the ‘asks’ we have developed are:
Government and its agencies to formally recognise that the city region is the right
spatial level to make investment and policy decisions to address these priorities,
and to work with LCR authorities to develop a housing implementation and
investment framework.
HCA and LCR to negotiate flexibility for the use or phasing of funds (including
Regional Housing Pot, Growth Funds and Housing Market Renewal Initiative) to
allow funding to be moved between different programmes in response to changing
market conditions, and to allow support for revenue projects (e.g. enforcement
activity) which could make a significant contribution to improving housing
conditions.
HCA and LCR to work together to develop products to support acquisition of
properties originally intended for sale which contribute to the city region’s ‘balanced
communities’ aims, to develop appropriate equity loans schemes to support home
purchases, and to agree proposals for investing in Asset-Backed Vehicles and
Local Housing Companies to assemble and prepare sites for housing
development. We would also like HCA to consider the relaxation of ‘double
subsidy’ rules to support effective measures to deliver affordable housing.
Government investigate provision of financial incentives and technical advice to
developers seeking to build on sites identified as ‘difficult to develop’ in Local
Brownfield Strategies.
Government to introduce a range of measures to assist us in improving the private
rented sector, including support for landlord registration, allowing better sharing of
data within and between local authorities, and reviewing the use of council tax
levied on empty homes (potentially ringfencing this for use on local empty property
initiatives).
2. How the Asks support the aspirations for economic growth as set out in the
Story of Place
The priorities set out in the Housing Platform Paper build on the work we have
already done across the city region, and seek to strike a balance between our
housing growth ambitions and the continuing need to revive areas of market
weakness. We have also sought to align our priorities with existing agreed
strategies such as RSS, the revised Regional Housing Strategy, and the region’s
response to the recent Regional Funding Advice (RFA2) consultation. Our priorities
are:
Continuing to improve the quality of the city region’s existing housing;
Delivering appropriate numbers of new homes in the right places;
Ensuring that people have appropriate and affordable housing; and
Helping residents of vulnerable neighbourhoods access education, training,
employment, shopping and leisure opportunities by linking local employment
and training opportunities with our housing plan.
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The Story of Place describes the constraints which poor quality of housing and lack
of housing choice place on the city region, both in terms of restricting mobility and
the negative message that this sends out about the quality of life in the sub-region.
The proposals in the housing platform paper – our ‘offer’ and our ‘asks’ together –
set out an approach to housing which takes account of the need for continued
housing renewal in parts of the city region and the potential we can offer for
housing and economic growth, as well as linking residents of deprived
communities to better education, training and employment opportunities.
3. How these asks relate to the asks in the other platforms
The Housing Platform Paper does not stand in isolation, and the proposals within it
have clear links to the ambitions set out in the MAA Story of Place document and
the other platform papers. For example:
our proposals to improve the energy efficiency of the city region’s existing
housing stock will contribute to the delivery of the Low-Carbon Economy priority
of the Economy paper;
the locations for new housing development will be important in delivering the
improved access to jobs and training (in particular) which are set out in both the
Employment and Skills and Transport platform papers.
Our proposals recognise that improving the city region’s housing offer – in
terms of its quality and breadth of choice – can make a major contribution to the
overall aims of the MAA set out in the ‘Story of Place’ document. Links to other
MAA themes are explained in more detail at each proposal in turn through the
platform paper.
4. What we are delivering collaboratively ourselves with no need of additional
support from Government
The Housing Platform Paper has been developed by the LCR Housing and Spatial
Planning Coordinating Group, set up last year to prepare the ground for the
Housing and Spatial Planning Board and to coordinate the city region’s strategic
housing and planning work until the board is established. The group is chaired by
Carole Hudson, Chief Executive of St Helens MBC; membership drawn from all six
districts, NewHeartlands and Merseyside Policy Unit.
The Housing Platform Paper draws on considerable joint working already done in
the city region; the City Region Development Programme (2005), the City Region
Housing Strategy (2007) and Action Plan (2008), as well as work to agree spatial
priorities for the city region (as the basis for our evidence to the RSS Examination
in Public (2006).
As part of the MAA package, there are a number of things which the LCR local
authorities can already do to support our priorities, and as part of our ‘offer’ will:
Invite government – through GONW – and its agencies (HCA, NWDA, 4NW) to be
part of the LCR Housing & Spatial Planning Board’s structure.
Develop a joint brownfield strategy, prioritising areas and sites for remediation
work and preparation for future housing development.
Work with regional organisations – NWDA and 4NW – to develop appropriate sub-
regional affordable housing targets for inclusion within Single Regional Strategy for
the North West Develop a single landlord accreditation scheme covering all six
districts.
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TRANSPORT PLATFORM - SUMMARY
1 The Asks of Government
ASK 1 Improving access to employment and opportunities
Government to re-affirm their commitment to accessibility planning and ensure
priorities are set out in clear lines of responsibilities for all stakeholders.
To underpin this approach, Government and local partners to map funding
streams and timelines and to agree how synergy between different funding
streams can be achieved to enable a single accessibility strategy to be offered
and delivered.
In order to establish long term funding for this approach, the LCR and
Government to examine the cross sector benefits of transport interventions to
create a clear understanding of costs and benefits across the different delivery
and funding agents.
Examine clearer guidelines on locational choice at both home and destination.
ASK 2 Improving capacity and connectivity in the LCR network
Extend local rail franchising to cover the LCR and implement Full Local
Decision Making for Merseyrail electrics.
Full policy and financial commitment to, and delivery of, the Manchester Rail
Hub Solution(s) in the Control Period 4 (2009-2014).
Full policy and financial commitment to, and delivery of, the Liverpool City
Centre Stations (Central and James Street) Solutions in the Control Period 4
(2009-2014).
Optimising the management and maintenance of the strategic national and
local highway network through enhanced infrastructure and control of national
highway network Variable Message Signing.
Support the newly designated national port access route by financially
supporting the development and delivery of a study to consider strategic access
to the Port of Liverpool , as a crucial component in achieving improved gateway
access to the internationally designated Port of Liverpool. (This forms part of
the transformational Superport project).
ASK 3 Low Carbon Transport City - Reducing emissions and addressing
climate change
Clarify the role of productivity TIF and examine the scope for greater flexibility
in using TIF to support wider DaSTS priorities
Designate and fund the City Region as a ‘Sustainable City’ rolling out the
lessons of the sustainable towns on a much larger scale. Explore new means of
funding smarter choices and put in place an evidence base to support their
greater application.
Work with the LCR Freight Quality Partnership to promote further the
opportunities for best practice in balancing the needs of freight and
communities and examine priority areas for consideration. We will also look to
how to incentivise behaviour change and carbon reduction. This is clearly
linked as well to Ask 2 and access to the Port
2 How the Asks support the aspirations for economic growth as set out
in the Story of Place
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A network designed to ensure the efficient movement of people and goods,
addressing congestion and accessibility through:
A comprehensive package of measures to ensure that nobody is excluded from
the economic and social life of the City region because of lack of transport;
A reliable and efficient transport network that supports economic growth and
productivity based on an enhanced local rail network responsive to local
demands, and able to offer real alternatives to the car, leading to increased
patronage and reduced congestion levels.
A long term comprehensive package to support the City Regions strengths
around the port and logistics.
A modern and innovative approach supporting the aims of DaSTS and the LCR
Low Carbon Economy. A network designed to support the City Regions
strengths and priorities based on best practice in addressing transports
contribution to climate change, and securing a healthy natural environment for
the future
3 How the Asks relate to those in the other platforms
Transport is about connecting people and goods to places. A comprehensive and
high performing transport system is essential for sustained economic prosperity,
productivity and sustainable economic growth. Efficient transport can help to
facilitate a competitive edge and reduce social exclusion. The efficiency of
transport linkages affects the wider efficiency of the City Region, including:
Access to employment training and other opportunities;
Business viability and success - through for example, managing congestion,
and creating accessible locations relating to labour skills and access to
markets. This also includes business logistics, freight, and major priorities
including access to the ports - Superport; and
Supporting housing areas in terms of accessibility, providing attractive
sustainable locations and functioning housing markets.
4 What we are proposing to deliver collaboratively ourselves with no of
additional support from Government
Partners are committed to a review of the governance and delivery
arrangements for transport, as part of the developing City Region governance
model. The review will include the determination of the preferred model for an
Integrated Transport Authority for the City Region. The Transport Board/ITA will
oversee delivery of the transport elements of the MAA.
The LCR will build on its position as a Beacon Authority to work with the
Accessibility and Equalities Unit to develop proposals for establishing a new
national forum on access issues with a view to developing a longer term
strategy for improving accessibility.
The LCR will use the new City Region structures, in collaboration with the
LSP’s, to secure cross sector integration to help deliver stretch targets on
accessibility indicators.
The Merseyside Transport Partnership and the Highways Agency will establish
a joint highway control centre, that utilises the benefits of technology sharing,
and the creation of protocols for shared technology use, including existing
network management decision making in response to incidents and ensuring
free flowing strategic roads.
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