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Prospect Leicestershire
Briefing
charnwoodtogether
September 30th , 2009
Leicestershire, a place with no boundaries
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Contents
1. Why we are here
2. Strategy formulation
3. About Prospect Leicestershire
4. Our focus
• Regeneration
• Supporting sustainable growth
• Business enterprise
5. Sub-regional communications
6. Cross-cutting shared services
7. Priorities and challenges
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Why we are here
Colton Square, New Business Quarter
•Unique alliance between
city and county with
districts
•Multi Area Agreement
•‘Joining Up’
•New structure for
strategy and delivery
•Unites regeneration,
inward investment and
enterprise
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Multi Area Agreement
‘In 2020 Leicester and Leicestershire aspire to
have a prosperous, enterprising and dynamic
economy, characterised by innovative
businesses and creative people, attractive
places and sustainable communities.’
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Strategy formulation
Leadership Board serviced by strategy and policy
groups – through Coordination Group
•Housing, infrastructure and planning
•Transport
•Business and Enterprise
•Employment and Skills
•Rural Partnership
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Leadership Board
Co-ordination Group
Recommend for
approval
Employment & Skills
Board
Business & Enterprise
Group
Transport Group
Housing, Planning &
Infrastructure Group
Leicestershire Rural
Partnership
Technical appraisal
and shortlisting
NGP Project Board
WNF Programme Board
ERDF Project Board
LRP Sub-Group
Strategic Appraisal
Support Unit
Projects
Economic Development
Company
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Local Authorities
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Other Partner agencies
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Strategy formulation
Leadership Board agrees strategy for sustainable
economic development
Leadership Board directs investment from local,
regional and national funds
Leadership Board commissions projects to be
delivered by Prospect Leicestershire
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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About Prospect Leicestershire
Founding members City and County
Accountable to Leadership Board
Seven private, five public sector – HCA and Emda
observers
£1.2m pa running costs - City, County, Districts,
Emda, HCA
£15-40m pa capital from public sector sources
Company limited by guarantee
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Prospect Leicestershire’s focus
Our delivery focus is:
Regeneration
Supporting sustainable economic growth
Business enterprise
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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The ‘No Boundaries’ proposition
• Unique city/county partnership gives us a new
edge in the inward investment market
• Joined up = easier to do business
• Political alliance = more confidence in stability
• ‘No Boundaries’ - external proposition but also
internal challenge
• Used as rallying call to private sector
• Still room to do more…
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Prospect Leicestershire’s focus
Our delivery focus is:
Regeneration
Supporting sustainable economic growth
Business enterprise
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Regeneration
• City centre master plan refresh
- Retail circuit
- New Business Quarter & Science Park
- Abbey Meadows housing
- Waterside & St George’s North
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Regeneration
• Leicester Business Gateway
- Combines Station Improvement & NBQ
- Creates superb new gateway to city
- Transforms station entrance/ creates new piazza
- New booking hall, ticket office, passenger facilities
- Refurbished historic entrance, better taxi, cycle access
- Improved bus integration and information systems
- New hotel and residential tower
- 50,000sq m new offices – 4,000 jobs
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Regeneration
• Leicester Cultural Quarter
- Most challenging area/Needs ‘fine grain approach’
- Preparing development strategy
- Potential for creative industries ‘hub’ sparked by major
public projects – Depot, Curve, Phoenix Square
- Encourage workspace supply for creative business
- Improve public realm and linkages to rest of city
- Improve signposting and develop quarter identity
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Regeneration
• Leicester Waterside
- 50 hectares to NW of city centre
- Cut off by ring road. Derelict, vacant, under-occupied
- Vision is comprehensive residential-led, mixed-use
regeneration to create vibrant new city neighbourhood
- Reunite city centre with the river and surrounding
residential areas
- Increase use of river
- Improve appearance of area as a gateway to Leicester
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Regeneration
• Wolsey Island
- Major component of Abbey Meadows regeneration
- Potential for up to 1,800 homes
- Links Science Park and BUSM sites
- High potential site between River Soar and Grand Union
Canal
- Area will be transformed into sustainable residential
community, range of new homes, foot and cycle bridges
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Regeneration
• Market Town regeneration opportunities
- Preliminary meetings held
- Significant enthusiasm for Prospect Leicestershire to help
with identifying and unlocking regeneration opportunities
- Loughborough, Coalville – immediate priorities
- Hinckley, Melton – being worked up
- Housing, Planning and Infrastructure sub group has key role
- Resources needed to support developments
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Prospect Leicestershire’s focus
Our delivery focus is:
Regeneration
Supporting sustainable
economic growth
Business enterprise
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Supporting sustainable economic growth
• Joint employment land and workspace investment plan and
programme
- City and county lack adequate land and workspace
- Public funds not enough to address gaps
- Public sector must get more proactive to address issues
- Prospect Leicestershire commissioned to lead partners in five-year programme
– Increase choice of land and workspace
– Enable firms to reduce CO2 emissions
– Provide better estate management service for business occupiers
– Grow partners’ capital assets and revenue income
– Act as direct developer as necessary
• Shared services approach
• Bringing forward employment land to meet future need
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Supporting sustainable economic growth
• High added-value business support services
- Prospect Leicestershire commissioned to lead study to
identify needs of firms in science and technology and
creative sectors
- Plan to meet priority needs
- Create proposal for innovation hubs for support, incubation
and growth
- Leicester (creative industries) Loughborough (science and
technology)
- Universities as key partners
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
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Supporting sustainable economic growth
• Team to support Sustainable Urban Extensions
- Prospect Leicestershire commissioned to create peripatetic
team for planning and delivery of the five SUEs – providing
total 25,000 homes across sub region
- Core team also able to draw on consultants
- Flexible and cost-effective solution
- Coordinated by Hpig group
- Accountable to local authorities as planning bodies
- Kitemarked for best practice
- WHERE ARE THE PRIORITIES FOR HOUSING GROWTH?
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Supporting sustainable economic growth
• Leicester Science/Innovation Park
- On sites either side of National Space Centre
- Phase 1 – 40,000 sq ft – 530 new jobs over 10 years
- City council acting as lead body
- Prospect Leicestershire advising, assisting with funding
applications and pushing delivery
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[email protected]
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Supporting sustainable economic growth
• Market Harborough innovation centre
- Creates 30,000 sq ft of incubation and grow-on space in
environs of town centre
- Prospect Leicestershire has guided site selection
- Prospect Leicestershire to act as agent
- Funding application submitted
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0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Prospect Leicestershire’s focus
Our delivery focus is:
Regeneration
Supporting sustainable economic growth
Business enterprise
www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk
0116 222 3322
[email protected]
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Business enterprise
• Inward investment project
• Raise awareness of Leicester and Leicestershire offer
• Develop ‘No Boundaries’ proposition
• Confirm and refine sector opportunities and target messages through research
• Identify and develop marketing channels
• Target key sectors with sector-specific marketing messages
• Launch Advocates programme
• Build relationships with overseas contacts
• Upgrade/replace our CRM system.
• Maintain relationships with strategic local businesses and develop new
relationships, providing our support for their intelligence
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[email protected]
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Inward investment
• University initiatives
- 3U4B – successful brand to be extended and
developed. Pharmaceutical seminar
November. Creative Feb 2010
- Bespoke resource scoping project to improve
university liaison with all private sector
partners
- Developing campus plans with all three
universities
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Sub-regional communications
• Tell the best-possible story about the new way
of determining and delivering economic strategy
• Prepare project matrix – funding decisions,
milestones, outcomes etc
• Identify lead organisation for each project
• Agree programme of media releases
• Develop media protocols
• Another ‘first’ for sub region
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Cross-cutting shared services
• Partnership hubs potential
•Property asset management – first stages
• Prospect is prime example for economic
development shared services – can we go
further?
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Priorities
• Important to strike balance between city centre
and county initiatives
• Balance between physical regeneration, inward
investment and any potential business enterprise
initiatives (awaiting strategy)
•Future proof priorities to reflect partnership
aspirations
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[email protected]
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Opportunities / Priorities for Charnwood
1. Facilitating Regeneration and Development
Opportunities in Loughborough Town Centre particularly;
• Eastern gateway
• Development Sites along inner relief
• Longer term priorities to strengthen the retail core/circuit
• Regeneration priority sites around Moor lane and Grand
Central
• Delivery of options for Sustainable Urban Extensions
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0116 222 3322
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Opportunities / Priorities for Charnwood
2. Working with Loughborough University
• Science Park
• Olympics and other major events
3. Promoting Charnwood - Inward Investment and Place
Marketing Propositions
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[email protected]
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Prospect Leicestershire
Briefing – any questions?
30 September, 2009
Leicestershire, a place with no boundaries