Summary: We mainly study operator spaces which have the locally lifting property (LLP). The dual of any ternary ring of operators is shown to satisfy the strongly local reflexivity, and this is used to prove that strongly local reflexivity holds also for operator spaces which have the LLP. Several homological characterizations of the LLP and the weak expectation property are given. We also prove that, for any operator space \(V\), \(V^{**}\) has the LLP if and only if \(V\) has the LLP and \(V^{*}\) is exact.