Liverpool City Council - Regeneration portfolio

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Regeneration

This portfolio is managed by its executive director John Kelly and contains the following services:

• Planning and Transportation consisting of:-
  
  
  • Parking Services who are responsible for decriminalised parking enforcement and managing the on and off street pay and display parking provision, the city-wide residents parking scheme and the Mount Pleasant and Liverpool Arena Centre multi-storey car parks;
    
    
  • the Planning and Building Control  service who negotiates and determines planning and building regulation applications, appeals, enforcement and inspections. They also produce the city's local development framework; ensure the protection of the city's historic fabric; the provision of urban design and other development related guidance; and they have responsibility for the World Heritage site management process;
    
    
  • the Transportation Service is responsible for developing and implementing the local transport plan, highways maintenance, delivering road safety, school crossing patrols and traffic management.
    
    
• Policy, Programmes and Performance who work with the government, the European Commission and other partners to deliver the council's priorities for the regeneration of the city. They are also accountable for the £700m of government and other grant programme, such as Objective One funding and the neighbourhood renewal fund.
  
  
• Regeneration Development  which  acts as the property development advisor to the council and ensures that the council receives value for money for its property ownership included in regeneration/development projects. They also act as intermediaries between other council services and private investors/developers to enable development to be delivered.
  
  
• Regeneration Environment, which inlcudes:-
  
  
  • Parks & environment, including cemeteries and crematoria - this service manages 80 parks, 1 country park, 1,600 hectares of other green spaces, six cemeteries, two crematoria, eighteen closed graveyards, street trees and woodlands. They are also responsible for delivering the parks strategy and detailed restoration and regeneration plans for major city parks, such as Sefton, Stanley and Newsham Parks, and reinvigorating the city's waterfront spaces at Otterspool promenade;
    
    
  • the Public Protection service which covers environmental health issues including: food safety; pollution control; health and safety; pest control; weights and measures; product safety; age-restricted products; food labelling and composition; trade descriptions; hallmarking; trademark and copyright protection; fair trading; consumer credit; road traffic; emergency and contingency planning and business continuity planning; the Port Health Authority; Heal 8 Project (healthy living in Liverpool 8); and, investigation of complaints and statutory notifications.  
    
    They also carry out enforcement in accordance with the service enforcement policy and risk-based inspection programmes.
                     

You can view the management structure for this portfolio  

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Environmental Policy

We aim to improve the environment in Liverpool by recognising the impact which our portfolio has on it.  We are currently implementing an Environmental Management System to manage the most significant aspects.  Read our Environmental Policy statement.