SOLENT GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 22nd, 2014
The Solent Growth Deal aims to drive growth across the area by investing in high profile strategic projects to enable housing growth and enhance transport connections between the cities and across the area, and supporting business growth, with a strong focus on marine and maritime, and advanced manufacturing sectors. The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership, which brings together two great waterfront cities of Portsmouth and Southampton with the Isle of Wight and south Hampshire, will get greater influence over some of the key levers affecting local growth and freedoms and flexibilities.
UPDATEGrowth Deal • November 11th, 2014
The Oxfordshire Growth Deal was announced in July 2014 with a visit from Philip Hammond, Defence Secretary to Didcot Station and Harwell. The deal will be signed with a ministerial visit by Greg Clark, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities later in November 2014.
NEW ANGLIA LEP GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership Growth Deal aims to transform the economy of Norfolk and Suffolk and establish the New Anglia area as a centre for global business excellence through focused investment in the area’s infrastructure and ensuring businesses have the supply of skilled workers and support to grow. The New Anglia LEP brings together the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and their constituent authorities.
D2N2 GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The D2N2 Growth Deal will build on the area’s clear strengths by investing in a number of major projects in the LEP’s priority sectors - including advanced transport engineering and life sciences. The D2N2 LEP brings together the core city of Nottingham and the key city of Derby with the counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire – home to vibrant market towns and large numbers of businesses. This Growth Deal offers opportunities to both cities and counties, with a range of projects to support growth covering priorities including transport, skills, flooding and innovation.
CHESHIRE & WARRINGTON GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 6th, 2014
The Cheshire and Warrington Growth Deal aims to drive growth across the whole of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The Deal will invest in new road infrastructure to improve connectivity between and within key towns across Cheshire and Warrington, such as Chester & Congleton. In Warrington for example, the Deal will support a new Swing Bridge across the Mersey, opening up development potential in several sites, ensuring that the town is best placed to meet the growing demand for more homes and employment space as a result of the expanding logistics operation along the Atlantic Gateway. Building on the important UK science assets in the North West, the Deal will also supporting new business growth in science – particularly at Alderley Park through a new business start-up fund, and investing in new equipment at Thornton.
GREATER CAMBRIDGE GREATER PETERBOROUGH GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Growth Deal will release some of the area’s significant potential for growth, delivering over 3,000 new jobs and building 4,350 new houses by 2020. The Deal will provide significant transport upgrades across the LEP area, addressing key bottlenecks and building on commitments already made in the Greater Cambridge City Deal. It will help to provide businesses with the support they need to grow by investing in new innovation and incubation centres and by improving access to business support products, such as the LEP’s expanded Agri-Tech initiative. The Deal will also ensure that people across the LEP area have the skills that businesses need for future growth, by establishing a new technical and vocational centre at Alconbury Enterprise Zone and investing in a new centre of excellence at Peterborough Regional College.
SOUTH EAST LOCAL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • April 9th, 2015
The South East Growth Deal agreed on 7 July 2014 and expanded on 29 January 2015 aims to contribute to the Local Enterprise Partnership’s Strategic Economic Plan by helping to renew the physical and intellectual capital of the South East. The Deal will focus initially on transport infrastructure and meeting the skills capital requirements identified by the Local Enterprise Partnership but will lay the foundations for increased growth across the South East Local Enterprise Partnership area. It will give renewed impetus to the delivery of much-needed new jobs and homes in the Thames Gateway and in other key growth locations, including at a new garden city of Ebbsfleet and will act as a spur to the revival of the area’s many coastal towns.
YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE AND EAST RIDING GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) Growth Deal Growth Deal supports the area’s ambition to become a national and international centre for the science of food, agri-tech and bio- renewables. The Deal also builds on a strong local track record in supporting small and micro businesses to thrive and grow, and addresses the key issues of housing availability and affordability in key growth towns across the LEP area, as well as raising skill levels and improving the existing transport network to support growth.
CORNWALL & ISLES OF SCILLY LOCAL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership Growth Deal aims to create a thriving and vibrant local economy. Alongside the LEP’s EU Structural Investment Framework, the Growth Deal will play a key role in overcoming the barriers holding back the area and delivering the LEP’s strategy for growth. Investments are focussed on high growth, high value specialist business sectors such as marine energy as well as raising productivity and employment in the economy as a whole and improving infrastructure. By increasing the growth of the local economy, the LEP’s ambition is to reduce the area’s dependency on EU funds and Government support, and graduation from less developed area status from 2020.
STOKE-ON-TRENT AND STAFFORDSHIRE GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Growth Deal will open up five key employment sites identified in the Stoke-on- Trent and Staffordshire City Deal which was agreed with Government in March 2014. The Growth Deal will also build the new Stafford Western Access highway to ease congestion into Stafford and make further employment and housing sites viable.
LIVERPOOL CITY REGION GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The Liverpool City Region Growth Deal aims to re-establish its reputation as a first tier global city, building on the success of the International Festival for Business. It focuses on transport and skills projects which will support the city region’s ambitions to create a freight and logistics hub serving an expanded Port of Liverpool.
COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
Coventry and Warwickshire is recognised as a globally important hub in advanced manufacturing and engineering, with business and research links across the world. Advanced manufacturing and engineering directly employs 34,000 people in Coventry and Warwickshire accounting for 10% of employment, 57% greater than the UK average overall and 500% greater than the UK average for the automotive industry.
GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • December 10th, 2018
ENTERPRISE M3 GROWTH DEALGrowth Deal • July 4th, 2014
The Enterprise M3 Growth Deal aims to drive growth by investing in key infrastructure projects to improve connectivity across Hampshire and Surrey in support of the Sci:Tech corridor, by strengthening science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and construction skills - helping young people to capitalise on the area’s science and technology credentials and new housing developments, and by supporting new small and medium enterprises. The LEP will also get greater freedoms and flexibilities to support a more strategic approach to the release of public sector land and business support.
