Recreation mitigation on the coast is a process to reduce harm arising from new housing development due to more people visiting the coast's internationally important nature sites. It is a strategic response to avoid and mitigate harm.
A Liverpool City Region steering group has been established made up of representatives from all six LCR Local Authorities and West Lancashire Borough Council. The intention is to produce a supplementary planning document by Autumn 2024.
Merseyside Environmental Agency have been commissioned by the LCR to prepare this strategy.
As part of the process of producing the strategy, plans are being developed to mitigate the impact of new developments adjacent to the coast, the process to calculate the levy charged to developers and the fair distribution of those charges to popular locations across the LCR is being developed.