Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has backed the Bromborough–Otterspool corridor as the preferred alignment for Mersey Tidal Power, moving the proposal into further development work rather than authorising construction.
The decision, published on 6 November, remains subject to call-in until 13 November. It is due to take effect on 14 November if it is not called in.
Members approved further engineering design, environmental assessment, hydrodynamic modelling and preparation for a Development Consent Order application. The alternative Alignment A is to be removed from further consideration.
The authority also endorsed a regulated asset base approach as the most credible financing route currently identified. That endorsement does not secure the project’s construction finance.
Submission of the consent application, additional authority funding, future development phases, delivery arrangements, construction funding and a final investment decision all require further approval. For prospective suppliers, the immediate opportunity is development and assessment work, with any major build programme dependent on those later decisions.
Source: Combined Authority decision record, 6 November 2026.
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Image credit: Location file photograph: Otterspool promenade and River Mersey, Liverpool, 14 May 2013. Not a rendering of the proposed tidal scheme. calflier001 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and compressed. Source photograph; licence. Derivative under the same licence.
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