Phase two of the Highways Investment Programme is improving the quality of the city’s roads and making pavements safer and more accessible. The £11m investment has generated significant economic and employment benefits with more than £1m invested in local small businesses and 163 weeks of apprenticeships supported;
A Parking Strategy was approved by Cabinet in January 2025 to encourage motorists to use public transport and tighter enforcement is now in place to deter illegal and dangerous parking. An increase in parking charges brings Liverpool’s fees in line with similar sized cities and is only the second rise in over a decade;
Ten school street sites have been installed to improve road safety around primary schools. Plans are underway to implement a further twenty in the 2025/26 financial year;
An Urban Mobility and Public Spaces Plan was approved by Cabinet in January 2025 to guide a multi-million-pound investment programme to 2045 to increase the use of public transport and get people walking and cycling more;
Work to decarbonise the Council's fleet operations is progressing with around half of vehicles fully EV or hybrid;
Liverpool has become the world’s first ‘Accelerator City’ for climate change, under the UN Climate Change’s Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action (ECCA) programme. The title recognises Liverpool’s impressive commitment to innovation and smart regulation to rapidly decarbonise the live music and TV/Film production sectors;
Secured £3.7m net zero living grant (£2.4m to LCC) to resource a strategic sustainability team and for specialists to work with the council and partners on city scale delivery and investment to secure net zero.
To help the city better adapt to impacts of climate change the council worked with partners to test how different nature based solutions can be retrofitted into urban spaces through the Urban GreenUp programme. The programme won Excellence in Biodiversity Conservation and Enhancement at the Landscape Institute awards in 2024.