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Regeneration Update
Local Strategic Partnership
21st October 2013
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Regional Level Developments
• The LEP is currently drawing up its strategy and
implementation plans
– Strategic Economic Plan supported by a Strategic
Investment Plan
– European Prospectus
• Aiming to negotiate £1billion+ “Growth Deal” from
Government and total investment programme of £5billion
• Role of LEP would vary
– Bidding for and directing Growth Fund
– Competing for investment in major transport
infrastructure
– Guiding the use of European funds but not controlling
them
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Regional Level Developments
• Consultation on European draft investment framework
held on 16th October
• Overall Growth Plan aimed at Growth Fund bid for £1m
to be discussed at SE LEP Board on 22nd October
• Proposed devolved structure
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SE LEP Coastal Group
• SE LEP Coastal Group
– Private Sector Housing (Hastings)
– Worklessness (Thanet + Hastings)
– Place Shaping (Rother)
– Off Shore Energy (Tendring)
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Private Sector Housing
• St Leonards and elsewhere low investment/links to
benefit economy
Working with SE LEP coastal partners
– An area specific scheme to change housing market in
St. Leonards/Margate etc
– Bringing forward proposal for investment in building
new housing for rent
– A stronger more ethical sector
• Seeing inclusion in SE LEP’s business plans
• Ultimate proposal likely to be £80m +
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Worklessness
• Official definition: people claiming out-of-work
benefits JSA, IB.ESA, lone parents on income support, carers
• Excludes many not on benefit but able and wanting to
work
• Worklessness rate in Hastings <50% higher than GB
All benefits
Out-of-work
benefits
JSA
ESA/IB
Lone
parent / IS
Hastings
21%
17.7%
5.5%
9.7%
1.8%
E Sussex
13.3%
10.6%
3%
6.1%
1.1%
GB
14.3%
11.7%
3.8%
6.2%
1.3%
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Repeated around SE LEP coastal towns
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Employer-facing project to get
pledges to support a young
person into work
Partnership: HBC, SCCH,
Chamber, FSB, Business
in the Community,
Hastings Direct, Rother
DC, Hastings Works,
Observer, Education
Futures Trust, JCP
Picks up agenda set at Sept
2012 Ready Willing and
Able conference:
Better school/employer links
More work experience
opportunities
Target 1,066 pledges projected
to be met mid-Nov
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SELEP Coastal Communities Group proposals
Coordinated approach
• Strategic & business support to create entry-level jobs
• Engage employers, link development to local training &
recruitment
• Apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeship traineeships, with
wider criteria, plus employer support
• Training & support: life and vocational skills linked to
employer demand, mentoring, IAG
• Coordinate work experience and employer-school links
• Manage inward migration of workless people
Benefits:
• Improve skills supply at all levels, reduce welfare/social
costs, improve image and optimism
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Welfare Benefit Reform
JSA Claimants per vacancy
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Hastings : 12.1
National Average : 3.7
South East Average : 2.6
East Sussex : 4.6
Eastbourne : 3.1
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‘Bedroom Tax’ impact
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865 households affected
708 with one spare room
157 with two or more spare rooms
Average HB reduction:14% £12.50 per week, 25%
£23.00 per week
• Approx 40 tenancies terminated voluntarily
• Estimated 300 households in increasing arrears
• Ongoing discussion with social landlords to understand
their approach to court action
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General Observations
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Increased homelessness applications
Increased homelessness 16 and 17s
Increased rough sleeping
Increased rent arrears across all tenures
Increased inward migration to Hastings
Increased poverty (including child poverty)
Increased demand for housing services, debt advice,
housing related support services, health services, social
care
• Increased court repossessions
• Changes to funding locally, main funding steams
replaced by ad-hoc opportunities for funding (LA and
voluntary sector)
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Anti/Poverty/Welfare Reform
• Anti-poverty/welfare reform group set up
• Developing strategy to complement action by East
Sussex Welfare Reform Group
• National level work on inward migration
• London Conference – 14th November
– SE LEP Councils
– GLA
– Government officials [DCLG/BIS]
– Academia
• Short term compact
• Longer term relationship and action research
• Stronger economy/reformed rented housing sector
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Assisted Area Status [AAS]
• AAS allows a higher level of intervention to support
business
• Competitive
– 1 per LEP area
– Existing Thanet/Dover Area
– Area of Interest Status
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Government to publish new map in the winter
Submission made to LEP and Government
AAS/Area of Interest linked to future funding support
New map from July 2014
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Vacuum Cluster
• Hastings and surrounding area is a centre for vacuum
technology
• This is essential to the production of components for
range of objects from mobile phones to aircraft
• Specialist field
• Conference and exhibition on 16th September with 200
visitors and 30 exhibitors
• Speakers included Maggie Philbin, Maggie AderinPocock and Moritz Riede
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Culture
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Lessons from City of Culture
Long term approach
Assessing opportunity and cost
Refresh Cultural Regeneration Strategy
Visit by Arts Council England
Celebrating 2016
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Culture
• Stade Saturdays – 65% audience spent money in Old
Town businesses
• 20,000 people visited Coastal Currents
• Seafront Art installation
• FLAG Projects
– Fishermans Arch
– Seafood Kitchen
– Stade Enhancements
• Schools leading work with Arts organisations, Councils
to develop the status of Arts in education and produce a
national example of good practice
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