Liskeard Town Vision

Background

Liskeard’s Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) was approved in 2018 and received 91.8% support in the referendum.  It identified a number of projects and actions to help improve the town, and many of these have been completed, or are underway.  The level of community support for the NDP has been a key factor in delivering these projects.

Since the NDP Liskeard has of course continued to face a range of challenges, including the impact of the Covid pandemic.  All towns have needed to evolve and adapt to the changes in the way we all live, work, shop and study and what we now expect from our town centres.  This therefore seemed a suitable time to review progress, to understand local priorities and where appropriate to ‘refresh’ the NDP objectives and refine the Vision and direction for Liskeard.

Liskeard Town Council, (with funding support from the Cornwall Council Town Accelerator Fund) appointed HemingwayDesign to help undertake this review, using their wider national expertise in town centre regeneration to complement local people’s understanding of Liskeard.  To meet funding requirements the process was undertaken in only 16 weeks, from commissioning on 19^th November 2024, stakeholder meetings in December and January, community and student workshops in February and a draft report in March.

We wish to thank all those who participated in the workshops and hope you can see how your input has helped shape this document and its recommendations. Thank you also to everybody who provided feedback on the draft report and responded to the survey.

Report

The Liskeard Town Vision Report is now available.

More news to follow on the progression of projects within the report.