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Business Live 2015
Ruth Carver
Director Greater Lincolnshire LEP
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Charlie Walker Editor
Lincolnshire Echo
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Creating a Dynamic Economy
Welcome
Thanks
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Directors
Partners Contributors
Committees Boards Groups
Stakeholders
Businesses Funders
Supporters
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Economic Update
Employment up by 3.3%
3rd highest increase in household income (GDHI)
30% drop in those claiming Jobseekers allowance
Unemployment rate at a 7 year low
5% more businesses than the previous year
Over 2,000 new businesses in 2015
Round Up
£33.9m over 6 Growth Plan projects now underway
Became an incorporated limited company
Driving three Food Enterprise Zones
Developing a Skills Strategy
Shaping the discussion on devolution
Launched the European Funding Programme 2015- 2020
Developed the Business Lincolnshire Growth Hub
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Single access point
Access to growth finance
Development & marketing of new ideas
Protection of intellectual property
Building leadership and management skills
Exporting or breaking into new markets
Improving manufacturing processes & building supply chains
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Business Lincolnshire Growth Hub
www.businesslincolnshire.com
Greater Lincolnshire’s long term strategic plans will:-
Create 13,000 new jobs
Help 22,000 businesses
Increase the value of the Greater Lincolnshire
economy by £3.2 billion by 2030
£33.9m of Growth Deal underway
Strategic Economic Plan 2015-2030
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Growth Deal
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TOTAL NEW
INVESTMENT
£291m
3,137 JOBS CREATED OR
SAFEGUARDED
5,145 NEW HOMES
BUILT
118,136m2
NEW COMMERCIAL
FLOORSPACE
3,736 NEW LEARNERS SUPPORTED
Growth Deal
Investment Leveraged
• Lincolnshire Lakes Blue and
Green Infrastructure
• Scunthorpe Town Centre
• Berkeley Circle Highway
Improvement, Scunthorpe
• South Humber Industrial
Infrastructure Programme
(SHIIP)
• Access to Employment Zones
Grimsby
• Bishop Burton College
• Lincoln Central Transport Hub
• Lincoln Tentercroft East-West
Growth Corridor
• Boole Technology Centre
• Unlocking Rural Housing
Programme
Growth Deal Projects
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• Skegness Countryside Business Park
• Go Skegness
• Boston Quadrant
• Grantham Southern Relief Road
• Grantham College
• Peppermint Interchange
• Agri Food Centre of Excellence
S C U N T H O R P E G R I M S B Y
I M M I N G H A M
L O U T H G A I N S B O R O U G H
S K E G N E S S
L I N C O L N
S L E A F O R D B O S T O N
S T A M F O R D
S P A L D I N G
G R A N T H A M
S t r o n g e n g i n e e r i n g
a n d m a n u f a c t u r i n g
b a s e S t r o n g a g r i c u l t u r e ,
f o o d p r o c e s s i n g ,
a n d t o u r i s m b a s e
E a s y a c c e s s t o 3 7 0
m i l l i o n E u r o p e a n
c u s t o m e r s
C e n t r a l U K l o c a t i o n ,
t o a c c e s s 4 0 m i l l i o n
c u s t o m e r s
E u r o p e a n a n d
d o m e s t i c
c o n n e c t i o n s
S u s t a i n a b l e T r a n s p o r t
S k e g n e s s
B u s i n e s s P a r k
T r a n s p o r t H u b
B i s h o p B u r t o n
A c c e s s t o E m p l o y m e n t B e r k e l e y C i r c l e
L i n c o l n
S c u n t h o r p e
Q u a d r a n t
B o s t o n
E a s t - W e s t L i n k
T e c h n o l o g y C e n t r e
R e l i e f R o a d
G r a n t h a m
C o l l e g e
P r o j e c t N a m e
E m p l o y m e n t L a n d
R u r a l H o u s i n g
G r o w t h A r e a
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Growth Deal Projects
Infrastructure
..of our Greater Lincolnshire
Growth Deal is focused on
infrastructure
Grantham Southern Relief Road
£28m Growth Deal towards a £80m scheme
Relieving town centre congestion
Creating direct access to the A1
Enabling key employment and housing sites to progress
67%
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Housing Boston Quadrant £4.75m Growth Deal towards a
£23m project
Access infrastructure
500 new homes
Retail land
Community Football Stadium
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Unlocking Rural Housing
£4.2m to unlock sites
constrained by flood risk or
infrastructure requirements
373 homes
6 Quick Win schemes
Skills Bishop Burton College
£7.5m Growth Deal
New campus facilities
Agricultural courses
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Boole Technology Centre
£3.4m Growth Deal
3,000m2 development
Lincoln Science & Innovation
Park
Lincolnshire Broadband Programme
125,000 homes and businesses have access to better
broadband
Bringing faster broadband to around 1,000 properties a
week
25,000 premises signed up for superfast services
At least 2 Mbps available everywhere
Digital
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Growing Places Fund
Loan funding for new
employment and housing
sites
Eligible costs include
utilities, flood mitigation,
access roads and site
remediation
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£9million revolving infrastructure loan fund
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Looking Ahead - Enterprise Zones
Three ‘Food’ Enterprise Zones (FEZ’s) – developing:-
Europarc 4 focus on existing fish & value added food proceeding
clusters on the Humber
Central Lincs supports growth of the arable & food sector
Holbeach focused on high value food chain growth
Two Enterprise Zones (EZ’s) – application submitted:-
Lincoln Innovation and Enterprise - emerging businesses in
advanced engineering, manufacturing, life sciences & food
manufacturing
Greater Lincolnshire Food Zone in northern Lincolnshire delivering
growth & increased productivity within our agri-food sector.
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Looking Ahead - Midlands Connect
Midlands authorities and LEPs
developing:-
Transport Infrastructure
Science and innovation
Skills
Investment and promotion
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Looking Ahead - Devolution
Ambitious plan for Greater Lincolnshire’s
devolution
Seeking funding and devolved powers from
Whitehall
Covering skills; transport; infrastructure and
water
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Roundtable Zones
Property Herman Kok: GLLEP Director/ Lindum Group
Cathy Jones: GLLEP Housing
Business Toni O’Brien: GLLEP Growth Hub
Samantha Harrison: LCC Business Support
Skills Vicki Marshall: Skills Funding Agency
Clare Hughes: GLLEP Skills
Digital Trefor Davies: Broadband Rating
Stephen Brookes: Onlincolnshire
Finance Russell Copley: Greenborough Management
Pat Doody: GLLEP Director/ NatWest Bank
Energy Dr Nick Cheffins: Peakhill Associates
Sara Kendall: LCC Business Development
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Jas Hawker
Motivational Speaker
GLLEP Growth Hub www.businesslincolnshire.com
GLLEP Research portal www.research-lincs.org.uk/lep-home.aspx
Resources
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Upcoming Events
Showcasing Developments in Agri-food Technology: 10th November 2015,
University of Lincoln/ Holbeach campus
GLLEP Growth Hub workshops (various dates Oct 2015 – March 2016
www.businesslincolnshire.com
Agribusiness 2016 Conference: 11th November 2015, Orton Hall, Peterborough
CPRE Rural Economic Seminar: February/ March 2016