Liverpool Local Environmental Plan 2008

The objective of this clause is to ensure that adequate car parking is provided for new or extended buildings on land in the Liverpool city centre that is commensurate with the traffic likely to be generated by the development and is appropriate for the road network capacity and proposed mix of transport modes for the city centre.

Development consent must not be granted to development on land in the Liverpool city centre that is in Zone E2 Commercial Centre or MU1 Mixed Use that involves the erection of a new building or an alteration to an existing building that increases the gross floor area of the building unless—

at least one car parking space is provided for every 200 square metres of any new gross floor area that is on the ground floor level of the building, and

in respect of any other part of the building—

at least one car parking space is provided for every 100 square metres of any new gross floor area that is to be used for the purposes of retail premises, and

at least one car parking space is provided for every 150 square metres of any new gross floor area that is to be used for any other purpose.

Despite subclause (2), development consent may be granted to a development with less or no on site car parking if the consent authority is satisfied that the provision of car parking on site is not feasible.

In this clause, the following are to be included as part of a building’s gross floor area—

any area of the building that is used for car parking and is at or above ground level (existing), except to the extent permitted by a development control plan made by the Council,

any area of the building that is used for car parking below ground level (existing), except where the car parking is provided as required by this clause.

Council owned public car parking and parts of a building used for residential purposes must not be included as part of a building’s gross floor area for the purposes of this clause.