diff --git a/CHANGELOG.develop b/CHANGELOG.develop
index 54fcce524..0cce0fc25 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.develop
+++ b/CHANGELOG.develop
@@ -2257,8 +2257,8 @@ Other:
 - Added key binding ~SPC m r f~ to fix missing import statements
   (thanks to Volodymyr Vitvitskyi)
 - Use =python-mode= for SCons script files (thanks to shanemikel)
-- Added LSP support, which can be used by enabling the =lsp= layer and setting
-  the =python= layer's =python-backend= variable to =lsp=
+- Added LSP support, which can be enabled by setting the =python= layer's
+  =python-backend= variable to =lsp=
   (thanks to Yuan Fu and Sylvain Benner).
 - The LSP backend can use either the =pyls= (default) server or the =mspyls=
   (Microsoft) implementation, which may be selected by setting the
diff --git a/layers/+lang/python/layers.el b/layers/+lang/python/layers.el
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0277c028b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/+lang/python/layers.el
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+;;; layers.el --- Python Layer declarations File for Spacemacs
+;;
+;; Copyright (c) 2012-2019 Sylvain Benner & Contributors
+;;
+;; Author: Sylvain Benner <sylvain.benner@gmail.com>
+;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
+;;
+;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
+;;
+;;; License: GPLv3
+
+(when (and (boundp 'python-backend)
+           (eq python-backend 'lsp))
+  (configuration-layer/declare-layer 'lsp))