Our final policy briefing of 2025 is by Molly Russell and Adrian Nolan of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, highlighting the recently published Liverpool City Region Growth Plan’s (LCRGP) focus on improving productivity.
The LCRGP is a new 10-year strategy setting out a whole-system, integrated and place-based approach to economic growth, focused on creating the conditions for long-term, systemic change. This briefing explains how the plan will use devolved powers to tackle place-based challenges, build on existing local strengths and design interventions that can genuinely move the productivity dial.
The Growth Plan is structured around two complementary pillars: Scaling Up our Growth Drivers (focusing on actions required to grow the most productive parts of our economy, including the City Region’s key sectors) and Strengthening our Foundations (identifying how improved growth and productivity can lead to widespread benefits across LCR). These two key themes recognise that a focus on growth-driving sectors must be accompanied by addressing priorities such as housing, transport and skills.
Driven by purpose and powered by partnership [PDF 0.9MB]
DOI: 10.17638/03194537
Image credit: Roger Sinek
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