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Liverpool City Council is set to release a comprehensive long-term strategy aimed at steering regeneration, development, and place-making within one of the city centre’s most vital growth zones. The forthcoming Pumpfields & Limekilns Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), which is expected to be approved during the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday 24 February, lays the foundation for future developments in this key area.
The SPD is designed to promote investment that fosters high-quality housing, sustainable transportation, job creation, and vibrant, mixed-use communities. Last year, the Council enlisted a team of placemaking experts, including Levitt Bernstein, Montagu Evans, Arup, and Turner Works, to help craft a long-range vision for Pumpfields & Limekilns. This team worked closely with local stakeholders and developed a delivery-focused masterplan to rejuvenate the 75-acre site, improve its links with the city centre, and identify opportunities for new homes, public spaces, and investment.
Highlighting the Council’s dedication to inclusive economic growth, the document emphasizes preserving the area’s industrial heritage while enhancing its status as a major gateway into Liverpool city centre. Among its key priorities are improving the range and quality of housing with an emphasis on affordability and sustainability, supporting employment spaces particularly in innovation and creative industries, enhancing public areas and active travel routes, and strengthening connectivity with the wider city and waterfront. Furthermore, it stresses the importance of environmentally responsible development aligned with the city’s energy efficiency goals.
Looking ahead, the document will enter a public consultation stage, inviting input from residents, businesses, developers, and community organizations to help shape the final proposals. The Pumpfields & Limekilns area lies within the boundaries of the proposed Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC), a statutory body established to speed up regeneration efforts and form a central part of Liverpool’s broader regeneration objectives. After considering consultation feedback, the Council plans to return the finalized plan to Cabinet later in 2026 for formal adoption.
Councillor Nick Small, Member for Growth and Economy, remarked on the significance of the report: “This is a really exciting report that will see the publication of a transformative draft masterplan for Pumpfields and Limekilns on the northern edge of Liverpool City Centre, an area that sits within the wider North Docks Mayoral Development Corporation area. We hope that this masterplan will help deliver a sustainable, inclusive, residential-led mixed use new neighbourhood that will see the delivery of over 7,000 new homes with active travel infrastructure, health and leisure facilities and enhanced public realm and green space to support this across six distinctive character areas. We’ve undertaken public engagement already and have had positive initial feedback, now we want to go out to public consultation so that we can put in place a strong framework to shape future planning decisions and drive forward investment and delivery at pace.”
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