East Sussex Growth Deal
Uckfield - London Rural Employment Rail Improvements Sites
A21 Flimwell Blackfriars, Battle - Robertsbridge
Forest Row Wadhurst Upper A22 Hartfield A21 Hastings - Robertsbridge Crowborough Hastings to Ashford Dual Ticehurst Tracking & Electrifications North & East Hailsham Nutley A26 Mayfield
Uckfield Town Centre Accessibility Improvement Camber Central Package A272 Car Park Uckfield Burwash Newick Hailsham/Polegate Accessibility Package Heathfield Rye Camber
A26 Battle A21 A259 Ditchling Winchelsea Rye Harbour
A22 Queensway Gateway Road Lewes Hastings Fairlight A27 Hailsham A259 A23 Kingston North Queensway Polegate Bexhill-on-Sea Hove Pevensey & A26 Westham A27 Bexhill/Hastings Brighton A27 Junction Capacity Alfriston Improvements Saltdean Pevensey Bay Peacehaven Newhaven Cycle Newhaven Improvement Package Priority Quarter Business Bexhill Leisure District Phase 4 Eastbourne Centre Newhaven Ring Road & Local Seaford capacity improvement package Hastings & Bexhill town Initial Feasibility Work centre access & improvement on 5 Sites in hastings Brighton-Peacehaven-Newhaven package Bus Corridor Phase 2 Bexhill/Hastings Hastings & Bexhill LSTF Link Road Newhaven Port A27 Lewes to Polegate Walking & Cycling Package Access Road Phase 1 Improvements Sovereign Harbour Hastings & Bexhill bus access Enterprise Park at Newhaven Port Site 6 improvement package North East Bexhilll Access Road Phase 2 A22/A27 Junction Improvement Package Eastbourne town centre LSTF Phase 2 Elva access & improvement package North Bexhill Newhaven Flood Defence Acces Road Businesss Centre Polegate Enterprise Park Newhaven Town Station Eastbourne Bus Accesss & improvement package Eastbourne & South Wealden Rail Interchange LSTF walking & cycling package Hailsham/Polegate/Eastbourne Newhaven area Sustainable Transport Corridor walking & cycling package
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TransportSEFUND National Highways And Rail The East Sussex 4.2 in order to encourage inward investment by 4.8 Through this growth deal, we have significant business. Such investment would improve Improving public transport, road infrastructure Overview potential to unlock our ambitious business the county’s connectivity to the A23/ and extending superfast broadband access and housing growth plans and build on our M23 corridor and a potentially expanding across the county will offer an opportunity to 4.1 current investments in infrastructure. We Gatwick Airport to the west, London and address growth potential, including, in part, beyond to the north, and Kent and the East Sussex has a diverse and growing are currently investing £56.8m in the Bexhill the rural employment issues created by a Hastings Link Road which will unlock sites continent to the east, thereby allowing us lack of access. With the right infrastructure economy, a significant proportion of to unlock further employment and housing which is made up of small and medium for over 1,500 homes and create nearly and accompanying support economic 3,000 jobs in North Bexhill and Hastings, development opportunities and fully realise growth in the county will be significantly sized enterprises across a range of sectors. the economic potential of the county. Finance and business services, retail, and through £20m from the SE LEP Growing boosted. In particular, our ask of Government professional services, health and social work, Places Fund, we are currently delivering 4.4 is investment by the Highways Agency in projects in Hastings, Bexhill and Eastbourne. upgrading the A27/A259 and A21, and by construction, other business services, and Whilst the landscape is predominantly rural Network Rail on the Hastings - Ashford, East distribution, hotels and catering (tourism) 4.3 in character, nearly three quarters of the Coastway and Uckfield rail lines to unlock are important contributors towards the 531,000 residents live in urban areas, with the This also need to be supported with further growth opportunities in the county. employment growth of the county. The majority of those (58%) in the coastal urban investment by the Highways Agency and Gatwick plays an important economic role county is also home to world leaders in the areas. Four of the five urban centres are on Network Rail in upgrading the quality of the for East Sussex, not least offering employment manufacturing of vacuum technology, the coast - Eastbourne and Hastings being strategic road and rail networks serving but also as an international hub and has instrumentation and advanced optical East Sussex, in particular the A27 and A21 the largest. businesses. There are also significant an important part to play in attracting and corridors and the Hastings – Ashford rail line, 4.5 opportunities in creative industries, retaining business interest in the county. A Advanced Manufacturing, MedTech and The high quality local environment which second runway at Gatwick Airport would Low Carbon industries. includes part of the South Downs National significantly enhance the attractiveness of Park, forms the foundation of the visitor and East Sussex for business. wider economy. Approximately two thirds of 4.9 the county is designated either as the High We wish to establish relationships and links with Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty the respective local nature partnerships to or the South Downs National Park. demonstrate and evidence how our growth 4.6 plans can make the most of the outstanding The under-exploited port at Newhaven offers natural asset with the area. In addition we an opportunity to develop both passenger recognise the increasing importance of and freight services, environmental and climate adaptation, highlighted by recent Clean Tech technologies, and Maritime flooding, and will have due reference to the activities. A number of high-value and national adaptation programme on climate distribution businesses have successfully change and ensure our growth is resilient to made East Sussex their HQ ; there are future extremes of weather. major opportunities, including through 4.10 Locate East Sussex , to attract further inward The three main growth corridors in East investment of this type. Newhaven also has Sussex, described in the following sections, significant potential to deliver growth as part and our growth deal asks relate principally to of the Greater Brighton City Region City Deal these corridors where there is considerable under the Coast to Capital LEP. scope for, and need to, create new homes 4.7 and jobs. The area is not asking for LGF in Coastal Hastings is particularly deprived with isolation but in addition to the East Sussex a number of smaller deprived rural areas in local authorities’ financial commitment particular, in Hailsham. However, we have to date in support of economic growth: identified three growth corridors in East Dedicated resources have been directly Sussex that provide potential for significant targeted on supporting economic growth. jobs and housing growth if the transport and Including housing, as appropriate to the communication systems are improved to individual authorities; between 2012 and facilitate access to the locations and sites 2016/2017 the five East Sussex Borough and within them. District Councils’ have already contributed or have committed an estimated £59.5m and the County Council £66m to directly supporting economic growth within the county.
90 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 91 A21/A259 Hastings- 4.13 4.18 The table opposite summarises our Transport 4.18 In Hastings there are significant Bexhill Growth Corridor asks. It identifies a total request for LGF development sites at North Queensway, of £43,000,000 with public and private Churchfields and Ivyhouse Lane. Additional 4.11 match funding to be provided of just under potential floorspace on the remaining The A21/A259Hastings-Bexhill Growth business growth for example via the soon to £7 million. This includes a local authority proposed industrial sites totals over 45,200 sq. Corridor focuses on the urban centres of be completed Bexhill to Hastings Link Road. contribution of £3.5m and private sector metres. Another part of the growth corridor Hastings & Bexhill, extending northward In this corridor we have the opportunity match of £3.42m. extends along the coast towards Hastings up the A21 towards Tunbridge Wells and to directly create 5,278 jobs and 765 new 4.14 Town Centre where there are major office London, and eastward along the A259 homes by 2021 and facilitate 9,700 jobs and development proposals, which could deliver There are many potential opportunities for towards Rye, Ashford and the continental 11,300 homes through our proposed transport 21,700 sqm of additional office space in the jobs and housing schemes that require some ports. The area contains some of the schemes. Priory Quarter. Further there are 11 allocated support to improve their financial viability. most severe deprivation in the SE LEP, but employment sites in Hastings Local Plan 4.12 These are set out below with requirements for also contains major opportunity sites for Development Management Plan (proposed Local Growth Fund, and summarised in the investment. The corridor connects the town The corridor currently suffers from severe submission version, 2014), which can facilitate following table. centres and seafronts of Bexhill and Hastings congestion and geographical isolation significant business growth in Hastings. Many where significant investment has taken through poor transport links. We have 4.15 of the Town Centre development sites place over recent years to improve the therefore set out below our transport asks, • North East Bexhill: 1,175 homes and 50,000 require land assembly through agreement commercial, cultural and leisure offer, and which together will help to open up the sites sqm of business space facilitated by the and possible use of compulsory purchase to enable access to development space for through improved access to and along the Link Road; powers with a target of over 21,700 sqm of corridor. additional floorspace. The next phase for • Blackfriars, Battle: Site with potential for development in the Town Centre is Phase Table 4.1: A21/A259 Hastings/Bexhill Growth Corridor Transport Schemes 245 homes within 5 mins of A21; and, 4 of Priory Quarter and this includes 3,608 • Robertsbridge: employment site 100m sqm of office space and 266sqm retail Full Total Total from A21 - 8,500 sqm of business space. space. Adjacent to the Town Centre are the Start End LGF funding Match Scheme cost jobs homes additional development opportunities at the Date Date requirement funding 4.16 (£m) enabled enabled White Rock Baths for leisure use, and White Eastwards along the A259 and within the Rock/Falaise Road for 250 hotel beds, 140 North Bexhill Hastings travel-to-work area, there are jobs and 150 homes. There is also significant 2015/16 2016/17 5.00 5.00 0.00 16.00 120 Access Road further significant development opportunities potential in bringing back into use the former offered by Rye Harbour, which has land Hastings and Bexhill Hastings Observer Building at Cambridge allocated within the Local Plan capable junction capacity Road as mixed use development. potential 2015/16 2020/21 7.45 6.00 1.45 of providing a further 35,000 sq m of improvements in bringing back into use the former Hastings employment space and 1000+ jobs, and 40 package Observer Building at Cambridge Road as homes. Just beyond Rye, in Camber, there is mixed use development. Hastings and potential for leisure-led development at the Bexhill LSTF town central car park site. centre access 2016/17 2020/21 8.79 6.50 2.29 and improvement 4.17 package Sites in Rother total 24.30 hectares – Hastings and Bexhill including: North East Bexhill, Rutherfords, LSTF walking and 2017/18 2020/21 7.70 6.00 1.70 4200 6280 and Robertsbridge. The total estimated cycling package floor space available is 61,750 sq. metres with a potential for delivering 2,330 jobs. All Hastings and sites are Local Plan allocations or existing Bexhill bus access employment sites with development improvement potential. This section of the corridor would package complement investment that has already (infrastructure and 2017/18 2020/21 5.98 4.50 1.48 successfully stimulated growth, in particular public transport the Enviro 21 Business Park. connectivity in and between the two towns) Baldslow Link/ North Queensway 2015/16 2017/18 15.00 15.00 0.00 3900 4900 Gateway Road Total 49.92 43.00 6.92 9,700 11,300
92 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 93 Table 4.2: A21/A259 Hastings - Bexhill Growth Corridor SEFUND A22/A27 Eastbourne - Torr Scientific DY U ST E AS C South Wealden Growth 4.19 Location: Bexhill, East Sussex Full Total Total The following table summarises our SEFUND Start End LGF funding Match Industry: UHV Manufacturer Scheme cost jobs housing Corridor asks. It identifies a total request for LGF Date Date requirement funding (£m) enabled enabled of £32.1mPreviously with public located and in private Brighton, match Torr 4.20 fundingScientific to be provided Limited of(TSL) over moved£222 million. their This includes a local authority contribution of The A22/A27 Growth corridor straddles south business to Bexhill-on-Sea with the help Blackfriars Battle: Wealden, Lewes District and Eastbourne. The £9.4m and private sector match of £213m. of Locate East Sussex to match high largest site outside 2016/17 2018/19 46.90 1.90 45.00 0 245 A27 corridor suffers from journey reliability of Bexhill and network resilience issues and needs to demand. Recently highly commended be fit for purpose for its function of carrying at the 1066 Business Awards, the North Queensway long distance strategic traffic. In a recent company works in research institutes, Innovation park: 2015/16 2018/19 19.30 1.00 18.30 170 survey undertaken by Eastbourne Chamber pharmaceutical and environmental Infrastructure and of Commerce , 83% of businesses believe industries as well as contributing to space servicing that the A27 has a negative impact on satellite applications. the prosperity of Eastbourne and 57% of Bexhill Enterprise businesses reported losing business because Torr Scientific’s sales have grown from Park: Site of the quality of the road. Our ask of £300k to £1million in the last five years infrastructure, 2015/16 2025 80.00 12.00 68.00 2000 Government is investment in upgrading which required them to relocate to a servicing and the route between Eastbourne and Lewes 6,700 sq ft factory in Bexhill due to little business space to improve connectivity to the A23/M23, a room for expansion in Brighton. Locate potentially expanding Gatwick Airport, and East Sussex helped Torr Scientific access a Priory Quarter London, supporting business and housing government funding grant. Business District 2015/16 2020/21 62.70 12.10 50.60 1500 growth plans in the Eastbourne/South Phase 4 Wealden growth corridor, and enhancing Managing Director, David Bates said: the strategic accessibility of the port at “The rural location of East Sussex and its Initial feasibility Newhaven. proximity to the sea provide a healthier work on 5 sites in 2016/17 2017/18 0.28 0.26 0.03 765 460 4.21 and stress relieving work location. East Hastings Sussex has a high density of vacuum The A22/A27 Growth Corridor will directly technology companies which is what Rural Employment create 1,400 jobs by 20/21 and a further 800 2017/18 2020/21 17.76 4.06 13.70 380 Sites jobs by 2021/25, it will also directly deliver attracted us here. We were involved in 725 homes by 20/21 with a further 575 by the first ever UHV industry conference Rye Harbour 20/25. Transport schemes will facilitate 9,240 and exhibition, TEC66, which was held in -mixed use jobs and 17,800 homes by 2020/21. Note that employment-led 2016/17 2016/17 0.05 0.05 0.00 373 40 Hastings in September.” (additionally) Polegate Innovation Park will site; possible AAS deliver 175 homes 2019/20 – 20/21 and 525 and EZ homes by 2021/27. Camber Central Car Park - 4.22 redevelopment of It includes the Ashdown Forest Business 2017/18 2020/21 11.10 0.50 10.60 30 RDC car park to Park (Maresfield) and specific allocations provide improved at Uckfield (North Wealden) and Hailsham, visitor facilities Polegate, Willingdon (South Wealden) and Phase 2 Elva Sovereign Harbour (Eastbourne). In total 2015/16 2017/18 1.60 0.05 1.55 40 Business Centre this provides some 60,000 square metres of employment land for growth. The sites Bexhill Leisure described below are all linked by the A22 2016/17 2020 15.00 0.23 14.78 20 20 Centre the main road between Eastbourne and the growing market towns of Hailsham and TOTAL 254.69 32.14 222.55 5,278 765 Uckfield.
Since 2012 around £53m of identifiable private and public sector money has been invested in the Growth Corridor in support of economic development; the LGF ask will give added value to this investment. 47 Eastbourne Chamber of Commerce Business Survey, February 2014
94 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 95 Table 4.3: A22/A27 Eastbourne – South Wealden Growth Corridor Transport Investments 4.23 2015. There are two substantial linked sites; The table opposite summarises our Transport site 6 located alongside Pevensey Bay Road asks. It identifies a total request for LGF of (A259) will provide up to 15,000 sqm of office space. Site 7 is the largest undeveloped Full Total Total £31.5m with public private match funding Start End LGF funding Match site in Sovereign Harbour, with an area of Scheme cost jobs homes provided of £11m. This includes a local Date Date requirement funding approximately 5.9 hectares. This site also (£m) enabled enabled authority contribution of £4.53m and private sector match of £6.46m occupies a prominent position for a Business/ Office Park providing up to 20,000 sqm office 4.24 space. Hailsham / Polegate All of the sites discussed below in relation / Eastbourne 4.26 2015/16 2016/17 3.43 2.00 1.43 to our SEFUND asks are available now Sustainable transport and are the subject of approved Local Within the Wealden District area of the corridor Plans (adopted Core Strategy) for their Growth Corridor there are a number of sites development. The sites are in private for development: 900 4300 ownership and have been the subject of pre- • Land at Uckfield could provide 12,000 sqm application planning discussions with willing Eastbourne and of business space, 10,000 sq m retail and South Wealden LSTF landowners/ developers. 2015/16 2020/21 10.46 8.50 1.96 1,000 homes; walking & cycling 4.25 • Hailsham: 8,650 sqm of employment package Land at Sovereign Harbour has been space; identified for employment space within • Polegate: the site is 43.83 hectares with Eastbourne’s adopted Local Plan and overall provision for 17,000 sqm business Hailsham /Polegate is expected to deliver significant local space; accessibility 2018/19 2020/21 3.00 3.00 0.00 0 0 employment in a high quality business park • Maresfield has full planning permission for package development. The successful Growing Places 22,500 sqm of B1 space plus restaurants/ Fund bid will result in the Innovation Centre cafe area; and, at Sovereign Harbour being completed in • Hailsham/Polegate/Willingdon: mixed Eastbourne town use development would provide 700 centre LSTF access 2015/16 2020/21 10.90 6.00 4.90 homes and 300 sq m retail with significant & improvement business space. package
Eastbourne Bus 3500 4100 access and improvement 2016/17 2020/21 6.80 5.00 1.80 package (bus infrastructure and information)
Uckfield Town Centre Accessibility 2018/19 2020/21 3.00 3.00 0.00 440 1000 Improvements Package
A22/A27 Junction 2016/17 2017/18 5.00 4.00 1.00 4400 8400 improvements
TOTAL 42.59 31.50 11.09 9,240 17,800
96 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 97 4.27 4.29 Newhaven Clean Tech 4.31 Since 2012 (to 2016) around £141m of Newhaven has substantial physical capacity The table below summarises our SEFUND identifiable mainly private but also public and Maritime Growth for growth, including on large brownfield sites asks for the A22/A27 Corridor. It identifies sector money has been invested in this on six sites in and around the town centre a total request for LGF of £12m with public Growth Corridor in support of economic Corridor and waterfront which will be more readily and private match funding to be provided development, in particular the retail and developed after the flood defences are in of £153.5m. This includes a local authority leisure sectors; the LGF ask will give added 4.30 place. Between them they could provide contribution of £2m and private sector match value to this investment. 4500 jobs and 190 homes. The wider Transport of £151.5m. Newhaven has substantial capacity for schemes will facilitate 725 jobs and 1700 growth including large brownfield sites close homes by 2020/21. 4.28 to the town centre and waterfront. These 4.32 Three additional key pipeline projects have would provide locations for the investments Realising the potential for housing and jobs also been identified in Eastbourne, at the proposed from E.ON for the Rampion growth in Newhaven will require improved town centre, Sovereign Harbour sites 3 and Offshore Wind Farm, Veolia in its Energy access to London and to Brighton, in site 5 with the potential for both job and Recovery Facility, the proposed Marine order that it can play a greater role as an housing creation. These will be coming Enterprise and Training Centre, and the new economic centre within the Greater Brighton forward in future years. UTC specialising in marine and environmental engineering. Alongside these developments City Region. the port masterplan proposes to increase the 4.33 volume of trade through the port, establish The following table summarises our Transport a clean technology and renewable energy Table 4.4: A22/A27 Eastbourne – south Wealden Growth Corridor asks. It identifies a total request for LGF of cluster and support the development of the £6.5m with public and private match funding SEFUND Proposals fishing and marine leisure sectors. to be provided of £3.24 million.
Full Total Start End LGF funding Match Total jobs Scheme cost homes Date Date requirement funding enabled (£m) enabled Table 4.5: Newhaven Clean Tech and Maritime Growth Corridor Hailsham E & N, Transport Investments odour mitigation works prior to main 2015/16 021/25 100.00 1.50 98.50 scheme. Full Total Total Start End LGF funding Match Scheme cost jobs homes 1300 Date Date requirement funding Polegate (£m) enabled enabled Innovation Park: Infrastructure and 2016/17 2021/25 25.50 6.50 19.00 1000 Newhaven business space Ring Road & Local capacity 2016/17 2018/19 1.80 1.00 0.80 improvement Eastbourne package Sovereign Harbour site 6: Alongside Newhaven area 725 1700 the Innovation LSTF walking and Mall in an initial cycle package phase of the site, 2015/16 40.00 4.00 36.00 1200 (including links 2016/17 2020/21 7.94 5.50 2.44 this relates to to Seaford, the delivery of a Peacehaven/ further business Brighton and building Lewes) Total 9.74 6.50 3.24 725.00 1,700.00 Total 165.50 12.00 153.50 2,200 1,300
98 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 99 S u r rey 4.34 4.37 4.40 The proposition for Newhaven as a The Port Access Road (PAR) is a critical In addition there are, to date, three pipeline ‘Clean Tech and Maritime Growth infrastructure investment to enable projects in Newhaven that will require pre Nanosystems Corridor’ promotes a significant shift in the Newhaven to evolve as a growth corridor development work in advance of full project economic direction of the area as part of and to open up key development detail being worked up – these are related Location: Newhaven a coordinated approach to transition from opportunities. Barratts have planning to the flood defence work required as above C AS E STIndustry: U DY Nanoelectronics low value manufacturing and processing permission at Eastside for development and have the facility to create 4,500 jobs Surrey NanoSystems develop linked to the Port, to a new and higher including 190 houses, business units and this and 190 homes. They may require public commercial applications for value economic role, based on the town’s includes construction and maintenance sector catalyst funding at a later stage.. potential to support technology-led business of phase one of the PAR and are currently nanomaterials related to carbon, such 4.41 growth. Given the importance of Newhaven undertaking ground investigation works. £12 Since 2012 circa £4.54m of directly as carbon nanotubes. This class of as an employment hub in Lewes District, million has been committed towards the cost identifiable private and public sector money nanomaterial has tremendous potential the implication is that the economic links of Phase 2 of the PAR, this is approximately has been committed in this Growth Corridor to solve real world challenges in between Newhaven and Brighton have half the sum required to deliver this phase. in support of economic development; microelectronics, clean technology and strengthened and as part of this Newhaven 4.38 the LGF ask will give added value to this can be positioned to play an increasingly aerospace applications. investment. This sum does not include important role as an economic centre in the The Newhaven Offshore Wind Construction however the private sector development Greater Brighton City Region & City Deal Port would further add to the low carbon Chief technical officer and founder Ben that includes construction and maintenance which falls mainly within the Coast to Capital energy offer at Newhaven. The project Jensen said: “Fantastic lifestyle is really of phase 1 of the Port Access Road as part LEP in which, along with SE LEP, Lewes also would entail the construction of a deep important to us; it’s one of the reasons of the Planning Agreement, nor the £12m sits. water berth and on-shore facilities to enable we moved to East Sussex. I like the fact the area to compete for offshore wind the County Council will contribute towards that I can enjoy the leisure of life in a 4.35 construction contracts. The Port Authority, phase 2 of the road. beautiful area whilst remaining close There is also work planned by the demonstrating belief in the future of the Port, to the great nightlife in Brighton and Environment Agency on flood defence plans to deepen and extend a deep water London.” work - important in the development of berth in order to be in a position to contract related employment sites. The Environment to assemble Rampion’s/E.ON wind farm With plans to expand in the market, Agency has allocated £6m to flood risk turbines. The total investment is estimated at the workforce and possibly relocate to mitigation measures, but this is dependent £38m and the Port Authority is likely to require a bigger facility in East Sussex, Surrey on match funding. Further works will also a public sector contribution to this of £5m. be required to the North and East Quay NanoSystems Ltd will continue to grow 4.39 now and into the future. sites. Developments already committed in Newhaven through other funding include The following table summarises our SEFUND a housing and employment development asks for the Newhaven Corridor. It identifies at Eastside, and Coastal Communities fund a total request for LGF of £1.5m to enable the extension of Denton Island Enterprise Centre required flood defence work to better enable and Children’s centre, along with other commercial and housing development. community facilities to be funded by Public match funding for the flood defence will be £7.5m including the £6m from the 4.36 Environment Agency and £1.5m from the The opportunities in Newhaven for support Coast to Capital LEP. through SEFUND are summarised by site in the table below. Some sites may at some point be at risk from flooding and Figure 4.6: Newhaven Clean Tech and Maritime Growth Corridor therefore investment in flood defences will SEFUND Proposals be an important element in supporting business confidence to further invest in Start End Full cost LGF funding Match redevelopment. Scheme Total jobs enabled Date Date (£m) requirement funding Will indirectly Newhaven flood support job creation defence work to 9.00 1.50 7.50 through later release development facilitated sites Total 9.00 1.50 7.50 0.00
100 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 101 Raising productivity and Gateways to Growth spend, saving environmental costs, Ctec Energy providing health benefits and generating skills employment. Location: Newhaven, East Sussex 4.44 Industry: Renewable Energy The proposed Gateways to Growth (East 4.42 4.47 Newhaven-based Ctec Energy is a UK Sussex G2G) will allow for new and wider
C AS E ST U DY Realising the importance of targeting economic networking which in turn will Through a programme of targeted support, leader in heat recovery systems that resources where they have the greatest act as the platform to create and support there is an opportunity to make East Sussex generate electrical power from wasted additional impact we are in the process of new virtuous economic circles within our businesses more resource efficient with a engine exhaust gas developing an Innovation strategy for East businesses. The East Sussex G2G businesses positive impact on their bottom line through Sussex to underpin the investment decisions Working with Locate East Sussex, Ctec will access the most appropriate support a reduction in their use of energy for ‘whole for the new round of EU funds and the Energy has successfully secured a loan to reduce barriers to growth; develop life products’ and in production and service Local Growth Fund. This strategy, by also Leadership and Management Skills; find provision. of £200,000 through the Regional Growth identifying the niche growth sub sectors, and upskill their workforce; network to find 4.48 Fund to facilitate a move to a new 15,000 will facilitate support for economic growth new markets and make businesses more sq. ft. production facility, in Newhaven. through the development and application of We envisage this programme will be funded resilient; help navigate the planning and Ctec Energy has forecast revenues of £15 innovation in business through the Gateways through ERDF/ESF at £7.7m with related taxation systems; be collaborative, look to as described below and through greater match funding at 50% from a variety of million by the end of 2015 and the new aid the application of R&D; increase export HEI intervention. We will also be assessing identified match funders. manufacturing plant will create up to 60 readiness; identify the finance to support those companies in East Sussex (around 560 new jobs by 2017. This will allow the firm growth, and smooth access to it. Necessarily according to Experian data) which can to develop closer links with customers the G2G will also have strong links into HEI Access to Finance come from any sector, not just high-value/ throughout Europe via the gateway of services, and help ‘open the routes’ to these high-tech, and apply the targeted actions Newhaven Port. for business. In respect of this further work is 4.49 they require to grow towards, and into, also taking place with the local universities the top 6% nationally. In relation to Med We still need to improve access to finance Mike Burns, Managing Director of to identify if their new key business support Tech specifically, possible intervention in for local business with growth potential as Ctec Energy, said: “The support we programmes could be adapted for roll out relation to methods of dementia care will be identified in the ESCC business surveys and are receiving from Locate East Sussex across East Sussex. The G2Gs will also have investigated further with HEIs. through existing schemes where appetite has enabled us to move into our new the position of ‘an honest broker’ in respect by SMEs for this support remains high. This production unit, employ staff and 4.43 of the Opt Ins, GA, MAS and UKTI (Export). has resulted in the County Council targeting purchase equipment. Without Locate East With the exception of the improvements this area through its own capital budget for Sussex we would not be here now. to training facilities discussed below, these 4.45 growth with £6.2m already part invested and programmes will be funded mainly through “Importantly for Newhaven, we will As a minimum this programme will be funded also gaining an additional £4m through the EU funds with match funding to be provided through ERDF and match funding of £500k Regional Growth Fund 4. Some parts of East train people locally in order to service through the opt-in agreements, local local authority contribution. Sussex can additionally access RGF 4 through the systems, and then they will go out authority and other local match funding. Hastings Borough Council’s SUCCESS and and train people in the rest of the UK, in Kent County Council’s ESCALATE schemes. Ireland, in France and in Italy.” Low carbon economy 4.50 4.46 The ability to access this type of scheme, which we propose will via Local Growth Fund East Sussex has identified the following loans (75%) and match and 50% private three priorities for investment, through a sector match to fund, allows (unlike SEFUNDs) combination of national and European for smaller tailored grants (and loans) to be funding: accessed by individual businesses and by • Low Carbon Business Support Programme developers of small scale commercial sites – a wide range of activities, events, and where job growth results. This is an important training for SMEs, element of practical direct support to • ‘Whole Property Retrofit’ – This project in business that partly underpins Locate East East Sussex will dovetail with the previous Sussex and complements and adds value project and builds on the “Answers to to that proposed under the Gateway to the Carbon Economy” Interreg-funded Growth. project in Hastings; and, • Green Infrastructure – An East Sussex programme of stimulating the tourist economy by attracting inward investment, attracting increased visitor
102 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 103 Table 4.7: East Sussex Productivity (LGF only) Table 4.8: SFA Capital Requirements
Total Total Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme Scheme jobs homes Date Date (£m) requirement funding Date Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled Maintenance of the FE estate / 2015/16 2020/21 6.50 2.20 4.3 Access to specialist equipment 2018/19 2020/21 29.75 8.75 21.00 404 48 Finance Electronics and Green Technology 2016/17 2016/17 0.51 0.17 0.34 4.51 establishing clear progression routes into Workshop – Newhaven Campus We are also considering using ERDF for those sectors where skill shortages hamper Expansion spaces at Ore Valley commercial projects as part of the fund the competitiveness and productivity of campus for an Energy Centre depending on the criteria which may result our businesses; and, focusing on renewables, gas, 2016/17 2016/17 0.75 0.25 0.5 in ‘micro’ projects not being financed, yet • Increasing the proportion of the workforce plumbing and other certification, they, particularly in rural areas, are vitally with higher level and technical skills to Hastings important in support of the sustainability of above the national average. working (rural) communities. Station Plaza expansion space - to 4.53 enhance entrepreneurial skills for 2016/17 2016/17 0.4 0.13 0.27 We envisage that this programme will be tourism related businesses, Hastings Skills funded through ESF of £10,394,00048 and related match funding of £10,394,000. STEM centre Lewes Campus 4.52 Outputs: 9,187 participants in training and 2018/19 2020/21 4.9 1.63 3.26 We know that skill levels are rising but that a employment activities (estimated from the low proportion of SE LEP residents have high application of EU funds, and not including the STEM centre Eastbourne Campus level skills. The LEP is under no illusion that low outputs that will result from match funding as 2018/19 2020/21 11.08 3.69 7.38 skill levels also impede economic growth. we do not yet have detailed information on The unemployment rate for young people is the lower level outputs likely to be achieved). Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism high and there are too many young people Detailed outputs to be worked through as Centre – Eastbourne Campus 2018/19 2020/21 3.92 1.31 2.61 who are not in education, employment or part of programme development. VFM: TBC training. Economic inactivity is high, but so as outputs are developed but will include Creative Industries Innovation Hub – is the proportion who want to work. East DWP/ SFA benchmarks. Eastbourne Campus 2018/19 2020/21 4.47 1.49 2.98 Sussex recognises that meeting business need by improving the skills of our labour FE Capital Investment Engineering Outcentre force and those entering work is fundamental development (rural East of County) 2018/19 2020/21 0.95 0.32 0.63 to realising growth ambitions. We have a 4.54 significant contribution to make in meeting Electronics Technology Centre (rural) these ambitions and we will tackle our skills To support the development of more higher challenge by: level skills appropriate to the needs of 2018/19 2018/19 0.1 0.03 0.07 businesses in East Sussex, we are working • addressing the range of barriers that with education and training providers to prevent individuals from accessing identify a range of capital improvements to Expansion of sustainable training and employment opportunities, facilities related to our priority sectors. We construction techniques training in recognising that clients in specific groups intend to use LGF in a multi -year strategic conjunction with ECOFAB project at 2018/19 2018/19 2 0.67 1.33 need extended individual support - investment programme to ensure that local Ore Valley, Hastings particularly in disadvantaged communities; skills priorities can be delivered through the Expansion spaces at Station Plaza • increasing literacy, numeracy and IT skills provision of 21st century facilities for local and Ore Valley campuses including amongst both employed and unemployed businesses and learners. In future years we Higher Education expansion adults, as identified by SE LEP businesses; will support projects designed to enlarge 2019/20 2019/20 1.8 0.6 1.2 to include high technology capacity to deliver STEM-related learning • increasing the participation of young engineering, Hastings people (age 16-24) in work, education and (including that linked to a new innovation training to the national average, with the centre on the coast); a potential Innovation New technology and business take up of opportunities better reflecting Hub with incubation space for the creative incubation centre specialising in the needs of our priority sectors and skills sector, and an Engineering Technology vacuum technologies and related shortage areas; centre serving rural areas. We will also require 2018/19 2018/19 1 0.33 0.67 funding for maintenance to better enable high technology specialisms located • increasing the pool of young people at Ore Valley, Hastings undertaking STEM related subjects and the FE sector to perform efficiently. This is shown in the table opposite: Total 38.38 12.82 25.54 48 Note: split reopt-in/non opt-in to be finalised following final Opt In Agreements.
104 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 105 Rural and Coastal 4.57 4.60 some of the most architecturally interesting We envisage that this programme will be We are working closely with the SE LEP property that under normal circumstances Communities funded through EAFRD and related match Coastal Communities group on other would be regarded as prime residential funding via a variety of contributors that may interventions to promote growth in coastal housing stock. Whilst this is a particular acute Rural Communities include agricultural colleges and the private areas. As noted in Section 2, our Strategic problem in Hastings and the larger East Sussex towns, issues also exist within small 4.55 and public sector. In relation to the Leader Economic Plan, and in Section 3 the South element we will propose an indicative East Housing Growth Deal, there are conurbations such as Camber, Fairlight, Some rural communities have poor access to Leader funding of £2m from DEFRA, match significant issues in terms of impact that Seaford, Newhaven, and Peacehaven. basic services and amenities and affordable various. This will be worked up further as the dysfunctional private rented housing markets Given the significance of the problem housing. In addition, job density is low and Local Development Strategy is developed. have on the economies of coastal towns in across the SE LEP coastal area it has been there is a reliance on public-sector jobs. East Sussex. Within Hastings, and to a lesser identified as a specific LEP wide housing ask particularly in Lewes Rural partners in East Coastal Communities extent Eastbourne and Bexhill, there are detailed in chapter 5 of this document. Sussex have identified a number of priorities strong correlations between those residential The proposed Housing Ask 8 builds upon the for using the European Agricultural Fund 4.58 areas dominated by poorer quality and progress already made with the St Leonards for Rural Development (EAFRD) thus far The SE LEP coastal areas contain the lower value privately let properties and high area of Hastings where targeted intervention including: locations with the greatest deprivation. is paying significant dividends in turning SE LEP recognises that the area’s coastal levels of deprivation. The concentration of • Grants to small rural businesses to develop this tenure in areas close to the seafronts around the fortunes of the most deprived communities are a defining feature of the ward in the South East. new products, processes and markets; LEP, and require bespoke, co-ordinated and town centres deter investment and hold back the regeneration of neighborhoods • Collaborative support for innovation in programmes of investment to enable them that would otherwise be regarded as the horticultural, viticulture and top fruit to generate the returns and opportunities for extremely attractive in terms of the further sectors; enterprise, employment, culture and visitor enjoyment that their location, environment development of retail, tourism, culture and • Grants to communities supporting access and heritage can achieve. Tourism related the visitor economy. These locations feature to digital services; activities account for 12.9% of all industries • ICT advice and support to communities in East Sussex (10.9% in GB49. The coastal to enable them to bring forward local cultural economy has expanded with the support programmes, creating and creation of new or upgraded cultural venues retaining jobs; at Hastings, Eastbourne and Bexhill; cultural activities in East Sussex account for 0.8% of all • Grants to stimulate new businesses industries compared to 0.6% in GB . Specific creation and support existing businesses obstacles faced by the sector include high to grow; costs of improving buildings in conservation • Implementation of community led areas to meet the needs of higher-spending renewable energy and energy saving guests, the interdependence between initiatives in community building; attractions and hotels, and the difficulties of generating marketing strategies for the area • Grants to businesses; and, they all serve. There is a need to establish an • Grants supporting tourism enterprises intervention fund to upgrade and expand to develop new products and services tourist accommodation and facilities to enhancing destination offer (tourism better exploit the growth potential of the accounts for 14.5% of all industry in tourism sector. Wealden, the highest percentage in East 4.59 Sussex). Both Hastings and Eastbourne will be bidding 4.56 into ‘Community Led Local Development’ Given the success of the most recent Leader (CLLD) under the SE LEP SIF in recognition of programme (WARR - Wealden and Rural the particular needs within their communities. Rother) Leader is again to be an important Between the two areas they will be element of realising rural opportunity. requesting £2.885m ERDF; £2.32m ESF with Given that Leader remains a bottom up £7.205m already identified in match funding programme the WARR LAG in the future in respect of CLLD. programme will ensure that it both supports and complements the EAFRD that will come via SE LEP. The WARR LAG has gained an allocation from DEFRA for Transition funding until the next programme opens. 49 The geography of tourism emplyment ONS2012
106 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 107 Delivery 4.62 4.61 In addition East Sussex already has appropriate local partnership structures in The East Sussex members of the full SE place to both support and be part of the LEP Board have established a ‘Team East delivery infrastructure. This includes the Sussex’ in recognition of the need to reach Adult Learning and Skills Partnership Board a joint understanding of SE LEP objectives consisting of FE and HE representatives and and how East Sussex can contribute. This the third and business sectors; the East Sussex structure will form the basis of our local Economic Advisory Board comprising the governance model moving forward; our private sector and the local authorities, ACES local governance therefore is already the Alliance of Chambers of East Sussex, experienced in the structure, processes and the Hastings and Rother Task Force (which objectives of the SE LEP. Team East Sussex reflects the economic cohesiveness of the necessarily has a very strong business voice, two areas), the Third sector and Rural Forums including representation from the Chambers and other more informal groups. of Commerce and the Federation of Small Business. It also includes the Leaders of 4.63 each of the District & Borough Councils, the The county can clearly demonstrate County Council, and representation from the the experience, the expertise and the HE and FE sectors. We intend to review the organisational infrastructure to deliver. model in the coming months to ensure every aspect is fit for purpose, and formalise the new structure through appropriate Terms of Reference.
Table 4.9: Summary of East Sussex LGF Asks
Total LGF funding Total jobs East Sussex Full cost (£m) Match Funding homes requirement enabled created Transport 102.24 81.00 21.25 19,665 30,800 SEFUND 429.19 45.64 383.55 7,478 2,065 Productivity 29.75 8.75 21.00 404 48 Skills 38.38 12.82 25.54 0 0
Total 599.56 148.21 451.34 27,547 32,913
108 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 109 Essex County Growth Deal
A134 Colchester to Sudbury Colchester NGA Broadband Route based Strategy for Business Parks Panfield Lane Innovation & Enterprise Business Park A131 Braintree to Sudbury Route Based Strategy Northern Gateway Town Centre Improvements Employment Area (Braintree Town Regen) A120 Braintree Pinch Point Package Colchester northern Witham Enterprise Centre access corridor Braintree Integrated Transport Package & North Colchester Rapid Skyline 120 Phase 2 Town Centre Improvements Transport Busway A131 Chelmsford to Braintree Route Based Strategy A1017 Braintree to Haverhill Parkside Phases 1A & 2, Route Based Strategy University of Essex, Knowledge Gateway Saffron Walden Integrated Transport Package A137 Colchester to Colchester Town Centre Manningtree Route Growth Location ARU MedTech based Strategy campus site Knowledge Gateway - M11 J8 Pinch Saffron Innovation Centre Point Package Walden A414 Pinch Point Package: Colchester Knowledge Eastwick & Fifth Ave dualling Gateway, University station & junct improvs M11 J7a Pinch Harwich First Ave & Cambridge Rd Junc Point Package International Harwich Supply
Edinburgh Wat & East Rd junc & M11 Port Base Ltd approach improvements Harwich A120 Harlow Integrated London Transport Package Stansted River Walls Improvements Airport A120 Colchester Bishops Braintree MedTech Campus Stortford A133 Colchester to Clacton Harlow Route based Strategy Templefields Development Package & Civic Amenity A133 Colchester to Witham Clacton-on-Sea Clacton Route Based Strategy Harlow Town Centre A12 pinch point package Harlow A133 Pinch Clacton Integrated Chelmsford Maldon Point Package Transport Package Harlow EZ London Rd Enabling & Delivery A414 Colchester Integrated Transport Package Epping MedTech Campus A130 (Town Centre) Harlow M25 Colchester Integrated Transport Package M11 J7a Pinch M11 Point (A414) A12 Shenfield Colchester Stanway North Weald Airfield Brentwood Pinch Point Package A127 Rochford A414 Route Based Strategy; A127 A1124 Colchester to Halsted A104 & B1393 Loughton to Harlow to Chelmsford Basildon London Epping Route based Strategy Southend Route Based Strategy Brentwood station Airport London improvements B1022 Colchester to Maldon A13 Canvey Southend-on-Sea Route Based Strategy Island Shenfield station London Causeway Regeneration improvements Programme Grays Gateway City Centre HS1 Maldon Pinch public realm Port of Point Programme Tilbury Chelmer Waterside A414 Maldon to Chelmsford Key Route Based Strategy Flood Prevention SEFUND North Chelmsford Chelmsford City Integrated Package Transport Package Transport Chelmsford City Pinch Point SEFUND Heart of Essex Integrated Package - Access To Waterside Transport Package Chelmsford City Pinch Point Package - Ring Loop
110 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 111 catalytic impact they will have in unlocking The Essex Economy future investment potential and growth. 4.64 We have committed to use over £100m Essex has excellent business and commuting of our own resources for the early stages links to London, and international links via of development, to increase the speed the London Gateway (in Thurrock in Thames with which projects can be initiated, and Gateway South Essex) and Harwich ports, to increase the likelihood of leveraging and Stansted and Southend Airports. The additional support. We are committed to Essex economy supports 766,000 jobs, is home delivering a £1bn investment in infrastructure to over 73,500 businesses and generates over by 2021, including the projects identified in £30bn per year for the UK economy. To the this plan and the further projects they unlock. north of Essex, there are important links with Suffolk via the Haven Gateway. West Essex 4.68 is an important part of the London-Stansted- Essex partners recognise the role that Cambridge Corridor (LSCC); and in the heart national government must play in delivering of Essex, the city of Chelmsford provides enabling infrastructure. We are, therefore, an important regional centre. Areas of asking government to support our growth South Essex fall within the Thames Gateway, plans through its work on national transport the largest regeneration area in Europe. schemes. There are key enabling transport Information on Thames Gateway South Essex projects that are part of the national road is included later in this section. and rail national network and we want to reach early agreement with DfT on the 4.65 detailed scope and timetable for investment Essex has ambitious plans to realise its full and development. We want an active growth potential. Delivering these plans role in developing the HA’s Route Based means providing the right economic Strategies and in determining Network Rail’s conditions for growth and focusing investment next Control Period investment plan. On in priority locations within our strategic priority projects and corridors we particularly corridors. This approach also allows us to want to reach early agreement on: the build on partners’ previous successes and Lower Thames Crossing, M25 Junction 30/31, current investment commitments, to make the widening of the A13, line capacity use of established delivery and governance emhancements on the Great Eastern and structures, and to maximise growth whilst the West Anglia Mainline; improvements on securing best value for public money. the A12 and A120, the provision of loops at Beaulieu Park Station at Chelmsford with line 4.66 capacity enhancements as part of this work Overlaid upon our work in Essex’s strategic and the development of Junction 7a on growth corridors, we are advancing work the M11. We have already invested £12m in across five priority sectors where local developing the transport schemes described support will help businesses achieve their under the following sections. potential and secure transformative growth. These sectors are: Our 12 point plan • Advanced manufacturing 4.69 • Low carbon & renewables Essex’s growth deal is based on our • Logistics identification and delivery of the right • Life sciences & healthcare projects and interventions to unlock • Digital, cultural & creative economic potential. To help to do this, we have agreed a 12 point plan: 4.67 Partners in Essex are committed to growth 4.70 across Essex’s strategic corridors and these On investment, we will priority sectors. We propose to deliver a 1. Use over £100m of our own resources to package of enabling investment in transport commit support in/for the early stages infrastructure and property development of development to increase the speed targeted at key sites. These sites have been with which projects can be got off the selected to reflect deliverability and the
112 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 113 ground and the likelihood of levering in 10. Deliver a targeted package of investment 4.75 additional support; to expand and enhance innovation The table below illustrates the transport components of our growth programme in the Haven 2. In terms of scale, commit to deliver £1bn centres at the Knowledge Gateway in Gateway Growth Corridor. of investment in infrastructure by 2021 Colchester and Anglia Ruskin’s Med-tech Campuses in Chelmsford, and Harlow; on the projects identified here and the Table 4.10: Haven Gateway Growth Corridor Transport Investment further projects they unlock. This means 11. Integrate business support provision the implementation of a package through a joint commissioning and Total Total Start End Full cost LGF funding Match of enabling investment in transport delivery across the county and Essex’s Scheme Jobs Homes Date Date (£m) requirement funding infrastructure and property development universities – providing a single pathway to enabled enabled targeted at key sites within Essex’s enhanced business support; strategic growth corridors; Colchester northern 2015 2015 7.50 5.90 1.60 1168 3443 12. Develop and expand four business access corridor; North 3. Participate in the SEFUND to support incubation centres across Essex, and roll Colchester Park and the delivery of suitable projects and the out a network of ‘Growth hubs’ to provide Ride and bus priority creation of a longer term pipeline of integrated business space and support. measures development; The A120 Haven Gateway Colchester northern 2019 2020 5.00 2.00 3.00 1168 3443 4.71 access corridor; North On joined up support for enabling physical Growth Corridor Colchester Rapid development, we will Transit Busway 4.73 4. Invest £1m in creating a major Colchester Integrated 2015 2017 5.00 5.00 0.00 1942 3000 infrastructure delivery unit to bring The Haven Gateway Growth Corridor Transport Package: together capacity across a range of includes the districts of Braintree, Colchester Town Centre traffic public services, underpinned by a single and Tendring linking Harwich International and access strategy Port in the East to Stansted Airport and the infrastructure plan for the county; A133 pinch point 2018 2020 20.00 15.00 5.00 2148 1368 M11 in the West via the A120. It is one of the package, Colchester 5. Support the work of this delivery unit by key international gateways to the UK; home developing an Essex Planning Compact to Harwich International Port, one of the UK’s A133 Colchester to 2018 2019 6.00 3.00 3.00 1293 1368 – a series of collective commitments to leading multi-purpose freight and passenger Clacton Route Based deliver planning decisions faster and to ports, and supporting the neighbouring port Strategy: A133 Bridges offer other customer-focussed support to of Felixstowe. Consequently our growth plans Colchester LSTF 2015 2019 2.00 2.00 0.00 1293 1368 large planning applications; will have an impact across the low carbon Programme 6. Develop an Essex Property Partnership and renewables, offshore wind energy, Colchester Integrated 2015 2017 12.00 5.00 7.00 1293 1368 Board which can work with the delivery manufacturing, and logistics sectors. The Transport Package unit to support the use of local authorities’ Haven Gateway was the fastest growing assets to incentivise investment on a area with population growing by 31,700 B1022 Colchester to 2017 2020 4.00 2.00 2.00 437.00 0 project-by-project basis; and between 2001 and 2011. Moreover housing Maldon Route Based Strategy: Highway 7. Prepare a prospectus for all major completions reached 19,268 – some 37.61% asset renewal, traffic development opportunities in the county of the Essex total. management, that promotes the opportunities unlocked congestion relief, by the projects outlined here, which points cycling, safety & public potential investors from home and abroad transport measures to the major infrastructure delivery unit; Colchester Stanway 2017/18 2019/20 12.00 10.00 2.00 437 1800 4.72 Pinch Point package: On joined up direct support for businesses A12 access slips and people, we will 4.74 & improved In this corridor we have the opportunity to access around 8. Invest in a portfolio of capital projects directly create 4,784 jobs and 2,953 new Stanway (B1022 - that will cement Essex’s competitive homes by 2021 and facilitate 24,100 jobs and Heckfordbridge) advantage in key sectors and positions its 28,500 homes through our proposed transport A137 Colchester to 2017 2020 8.00 3.00 5.00 754 665 skills infrastructure to support future growth; schemes. To unlock this growth potential, Manningtree Route 9. Provide clear pathways from learning to local authorities and the private sector will Based Strategy: employment by establishing employer- invest £206.3m. We are requesting £122.2m of Highway asset led skills provisions, including programmes LGF to match this investment. renewal, traffic for training; the provision of information, management, advice and guidance; and skills congestion relief, brokerage. cycling, safety & public transport measures
114 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 115 Total 4.76 service the Knowledge Gateway in order to Full cost LGF funding Match Total Jobs Scheme Start Date End Date Homes There are significant economic opportunities create developable plots and is investing a (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled located within this corridor. Planned further £21m in a new building to house its A1124 Colchester to 2016 2019 4.00 2.00 2.00 754 665 developments, such as Pond Hall Farm and business school. This will house the Centre for Halsted Route Based Tendring Europak (Horseley Cross) together Enterprise and Growth (CREG). The University Strategy: Highway with growth opportunities afforded by has recently secured £4m from the Economic asset renewal, traffic Offshore Renewables at Harwich(and the and Social Research Council to further management, major port development at Bathside Bay enhance its UK Data Archive as a national congestion relief, in the longer term) will help unlock further resource and is now bidding for a further £7m cycling, safety & public growth around the Haven Ports to 2021 and to add a new Centre for Local Government transport measures beyond. An Energy Skills Centre already and Business Data. This will create a world- established in Harwich will continue to play class asset to support the Big Data sector. A134, Colchester to 2017 2020 4.00 2.00 2.00 754 665 an important role in supporting the low Sudbury Route Based carbon and renewables sector. 4.81 Strategy: Highway Braintree will be a location for several asset renewal, traffic 4.77 developments including: Braintree Town management, Colchester will accommodate significant Centre Regeneration, Witham Enterprise congestion relief, future growth, with development planned for Centre, Skyline 120, Panfield Lane Innovation cycling, safety & public the town centre and the Northern Gateway. and Enterprise Business Park. The new transport measures The Northern Gateway is a 40ha site which expanded Ignite Enterprise Centre will open A133 Colchester to 2016 2021 6.00 3.00 3.00 1098 2687 will be developed as a leisure/sporting hub in early 2015 and is forecast to deliver 30 new Clacton Route Based with the potential to create 3,500 jobs and jobs per year, and business start-up advice to Strategy: Highway 300 homes. The project has already secured 300 clients annually. The development of a asset renewal, traffic total investment of £22m and significant STEM Training Centre will help raise local skills management, amounts of public land. With the additional to support priority sectors in Braintree. congestion relief, investment sought from LGF, the Northern 4.82 cycling, safety & public Gateway programme is expected to result in The development of the A120, in particular transport measures over £180m of private sector investment. dualling sections which are currently single Clacton Integrated 2015-21 2015-21 2.00 1.00 1.00 1098 2687 carriageway, will dramatically improve Transport Package: 4.78 Colchester Town Centre has seen a connectivity and access along the Integrated Transport corridor, unlocking growth and enabling Measures to aid programme of business stimulation, inward investment and physical improvements to both Harwich and Stansted to realise their accessibility by mix of economic potential. modes position the Town Centre as a key business growth location and a digital / creative hub 4.83 A131 Braintree to 2018 2020 4.00 2.00 2.00 3852 1005 within the East of England and SE LEP. Public As a result, in addition to the impact of work Sudbury Route Based sector investment to date is approximately to support business and innovation across Strategy. Highway £28m; this includes a completed regional Essex, we will, by 2021, directly deliver over asset renewal, traffic arts gallery. This has leveraged private sector 14,700 new jobs and over 16,413 homes in management, investment to date of £77m in town centre the Haven Gateway Growth Corridor. We will congestion relief, developments and land purchases. cycling, safety & public also have unlocked the potential for a further transport measures 4.79 28,200 jobs and 22,700 homes through our enabling investment in infrastructure. A1011 Braintree to 2019 2020 4.00 2.00 2.00 3852 402 Enabling activities in Colchester include River Haverhill Route Based Walls Improvements and Colchester NGA 4.84 Strategy Broadband for Business Parks which will be The proposals to designate Harwich as a A120 Braintree Pinch 2018 2020 13.00 9.00 4.00 702 402 crucial in unlocking the growth potential Centre for Offshore Renewable Engineering Point Package: in the area. The development of a STEM (CORE) location and securing Assisted Millennium Way Slips Training Centre will help raise local skills to Area Status for Tendring will help to attract support priority sectors in Colchester. Braintree Integrated 2015-21 2015-21 12.00 5.00 7.00 50 204 additional investment and further increase economic activity across the area. There will Transport Package 4.80 be significant additional growth beyond 2021 and Town Centre Development of the University of Essex as a result. Combined with developments Improvements Knowledge Gateway will deliver a world class in the life sciences and healthcare sector, resource to support the use of data analytics Colchester Knowledge 5.00 5.00 0.00 0 1998 Tendring is working to establish the district as and data science by a range of businesses Gateway, University a genuinely innovative ‘trailblazer’ for the UK. station halt creating high value jobs. The University has already invested £9m in infrastructure to Total 135.50 83.90 51.60 24,093 28,538
116 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 117 4.85 The A12/GEML We have identified the following potential investment opportunities in the Haven Gateway Growth Corridor. Mid-Essex Growth Table 4.11: Haven Gateway Growth Corridor SEFUND Investments Corridor
Total Total 4.86 4.87 Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme jobs housing The Mid-Essex Growth corridor runs through In the Mid-Essex Growth Corridor there is the Date Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled the centre of Essex, linking London to the potential to create 3,126 jobs and 1,446 new Haven ports and key urban centres of homes by 2021 and facilitate 16,200 jobs and Harwich Offshore 2015/16 2015/16 3.50 2.25 1.25 300 0 Brentwood, Chelmsford and Colchester via 13,800 homes through our proposed transport Renewables the A12 and the Greater Anglia mainline schemes. To unlock this growth potential, Pond Hall Farm - 44.00 7.00 37 1002 255 rail services. The corridor has strong links local authorities will invest £100.8m. We new sub-station with the London labour market, supporting are requesting £81.4m of LGF to match this required substantial commuter flows to and from the investment. capital. These links will grow and strengthen Town Centre 2016 2018 20.00 5.00 15 30 505 as Crossrail is completed, when new services Improvements will stop at Brentwood and Shenfield, both of (Braintree which will benefit from planned improvement Town Centre works to facilitate these new services. Regeneration) Panfield Lane 2016 / 2022/23 42.00 2.00 40 1122 541 Innovation and 17 Enterprise Business Park Witham Enterprise 2018/19 2018/19 2.50 1.50 1 240 0 Centre (G) Northern 2016/17 2020/21 10.00 4.00 6 468 2203 Gateway Employment Area Colchester Town 2015/16 2018/19 9.35 4.80 4.6 56 78 Centre Growth Location River Walls 10.00 6.00 4 306 126 Improvements Colchester NGA 2015/16 2015/16 0.50 0.15 0.35 258 0 Broadband for Business Parks Skyline 120 Phase 2016/17 2019/20 43.00 1.55 41.45 840 0 2 (L) Knowledge 2015 2016 8.00 4.00 4 162 0 Gateway - Innovation Centre Total 192.85 38.25 154.65 4,784 2,953
118 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 119 4.88 Total Total Start End Full cost LGF funding Match The table below illustrates the transport components of our growth programme in the Mid-Essex Scheme Jobs homes Date Date (£m) requirement funding Growth Corridor. Essex County Council is committed to providing an additional £2m per annum enabled enabled over the six years to transport projects. While this has been taken into account in our LGF ask, this A131 Chelmsford 2018 2020 8.00 4.00 4.00 1066 1000 has not yet been attributed to any individual projects at this stage. to Braintree Route Based Strategy Table 4.12: Mid-Essex Growth Corridor Transport Investments A414 Maldon to 2016 2018 4.00 2.00 2.00 1066 1300 Chelmsford RBS: Total Total Highway asset Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme Jobs Homes renewal, traffic Date Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled management, congestion relief, Chelmsford 2013 2017 7.50 3.00 4.50 885 780 cycling, safety & City Integrated public transport Transport measures Package: Chelmsford Maldon Pinch 2016/17 2018/19 40.00 10.00 30.00 1066 2700 Station / station Point Programme: square / Mill Yard Haybridge Relief Rd Chelmsford 2015-21 2015-21 12.00 5.00 7.00 885 780 City Integrated Crossrail 2018 2018 3.50 1.50 2.00 2700 0 Transport Package: Package: Shenfield station Chelmsford improvements Integrated Crossrail 2018 2018 2.00 2.00 0.00 2700 1800 Transport Package: Package inc Brentwood station radial PT routes improvements (inc Broomfield Total 140.00 68.00 72.00 16,176 13,768 hospital) and LSTF Chelmsford City 2018 2020 12.00 11.50 0.50 885 780 Centre Pinch Point Package: Chelmsford Traffic and Access Strategy (Ring and Loop) (inc Army and Navy) Chelmsford City 2018/19 2019/20 10.00 10.00 0.00 513 510 Centre Pinch Point Package: access to Waterside (inc EGAR) Chelmsford 2019 2021 7.00 7.00 0.00 390 416 City Integrated Transport Package: Widford Park & Ride Chelmsford 2016 2021 34.00 12.00 22.00 4020 4002 Package; Beaulieu Park Station
120 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 121 4.89 4.92 The Harlow There are significant growth initiatives and We have identified the following potential investment opportunities in the Mid-Essex Growth new business developments within the City of Corridor. Chelmsford, supported by city centre public Table 4.13: Mid-Essex Growth Corridor SEFUND Investments Group realm improvements, Chelmer Waterside, an integrated transport package and a new
C AS E STAdvance U DY Manufacturing Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Jobs Housing railway station in North Chelmsford (Beaulieu Scheme Harlow Essex Park). Flood prevention work will also play Date Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled an important role in protecting existing and The Harlow Group, based in Essex, is City Centre public 2015/16 2017/18 5.50 3.20 2.3 456 312 new developments (in particular Chelmer realm one of the UK’s leading manufacturers Waterside). Chelmsford is a major centre for Chelmer 2017 2018 10.00 2.70 7.3 204 510 of precision sheet metal components. higher education and secondary education Waterside The company is currently expanding its and hosts the Chelmsford Innovation Centre activities into the demanding aerospace (MedBIC), one of the Anglia Ruskin Med Flood Prevention 2016/17 2017/18 13.00 2.00 11 156 312 and medical equipment sectors and is Tech campuses, supporting the growing life Causeway 2016/17 2020/21 1.08 0.08 1 114 0 enjoying significant export growth. ““We sciences and health care sector. Regeneration have built a reputation for quality and 4.90 Programme high precision,” says Managing Director Bill Brentwood and Maldon also make significant ARU MedTech 2015/16 2016/17 8.00 3.00 5 1998 312 Timpson. contributions to the Essex economy in a Campus site The company’s reputation has also number of sectors, notably manufacturing Parkside Phases 2015 2016 4.60 2.40 2.2 198 0 enabled it to win work in the medical and life sciences. Identified growth plans 1A and 2, equipment market, a sector that is include the Causeway regeneration University of programme and significant new homes Essex, Knowledge growing rapidly in the company’s supported by improvements to key routes Gateway base in Harlow. “Our customers have a such as the Heybridge Relief Road. We are Total 42.18 13.38 28.80 3,126 1,446 requirement for sheet metal components leading the development of an employer- that are highly polished,” says Bill Timpson. led STEM & Enterprise Skills Centre in “We now have the capability and skill sets.” Maldon, which will provide training and The London-Stansted -Cambridge Corridor (M11/WAML) apprenticeships in STEM sectors to develop a The Harlow Group benefits from the pipeline of diverse skilled labour to improve county’s logistics infrastructure. The the productivity and sustainability of local business is just a few minutes from the firms and enable the expansion of advanced M11 with its links to the national motorway manufacturing. network, making it easy to distribute 4.91 products throughout the UK.London Stansted Airport, just 15 minutes away, In the Mid Essex Growth Corridor we will directly deliver over 10,300 new jobs and serves more than 200 cargo destinations over 7,700 homes by 2021. We will also have worldwide, making it an important link unlocked the potential for a further jobs and in the company’s global supply and homes through our enabling investment in distribution chain. infrastructure. The improved connectivity will also continue to unlock opportunities for development and future growth.
122 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 123 Total Total Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Visteon Scheme jobs homes Date Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled Engineering M11 J7a Pinch 2014 2021 47.00 30.00 17.00 4293 6807 Point Package: C AS E ST U DY M11 J7a Harlow Services M11 J7a Pinch 2017/18 2018/19 10.00 1.00 9.00 2295 2805 Point Package: Advance Electronics Chelmsford M11 corridor Visteon Engineering Services (VES) is a leading, junction 7 (A414 high-tech supplier of engineering, research Harlow) and development services to the world’s leading automotive manufacturers. VES is a M11 J8 Pinch 2017 2018 1.00 1.00 0.00 2295 2805 subsidiary of the global automotive supplier, Point Package Visteon Corporation, which has facilities in A414 Harlow to 2017 2019 8.00 4.00 4.00 1440 525 27 countries and employs approximately Chelmsford RBS: 30,000 people worldwide. “ VES is proud Highway asset of its roots in Essex and was originally part of renewal, traffic the Ford Motor Company’s UK operations. 4.93 management, The company has three sites in the UK – congestion relief, The west of Essex is part of the London- Chelmsford and Dunton in Essex and Binley, cycling, safety & Stansted-Cambridge Corridor (LSCC), Coventry - with some 360 people employed public transport connecting London, Stansted and altogether. “We employ a diverse workforce measures Cambridge, via the M11 and the West Anglia of highly-qualified technical and business Main Line. The Corridor has enormous growth A414 Pinch 2015 2015 20.00 5.00 15.00 1440 525 people,” says Bob Swanston. potential, building on the local strengths in Point Package: The company recently relocated to life sciences and other high value sectors. Eastwick& Chelmsford keeping VES in close proximity In Stansted Airport, the LSCC has a key Fifth Ave to customers, suppliers and business partners economic asset with significant potential dualling & junc based in southeast Essex and mainland to catalyse growth across the corridor and improvements Europe. It also gives Visteon the opportunity to beyond. A414 Pinch Point 2015 2015 5.00 5.00 0.00 1440 525 become part of the growing high-tech cluster 4.94 Package: A414 in that part of the county. “Sophisticated First Avenue & In the LSCC Growth Corridor we can electronics are an integral part of our Cambridge Rd accommodate 1,050 jobs and 1,230 new product development programme,” says Bob junction Swanston. homes by 2021 and facilitate 17,200 jobs and 19,100 homes through our proposed transport A414 Pinch 2015 2015 5.90 5.90 0.00 1440 525 schemes. To unlock this growth potential, Point Package: local authorities and the private sector will Edinburgh Way invest £77.2m. We are requesting £86.7m of & East Road junc LGF to match this investment. & approach improvements 4.95 Harlow Integrated 2015-21 2015-21 12.00 5.00 7.00 825 900 In support of the economic growth of this Transport corridor, the momentum provided by the Package: London-Stansted-Cambridge Consortium - Integrated of which the South East LEP is a member - is Transport proving considerable. Measures to aid 4.96 accessibility by mix of modes The table below illustrates the transport components of our growth programme in the LSCC Growth Corridor.
Table 4.14: LSCC Growth Corridor Transport Investments
124 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 125 Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Jobs Housing 4.102 the Lea Valley provides, without subsidy, a Scheme Date Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled A specific ask of government for LSCC is significant proportion of the market garden that local partners would like to see a joint produce of the capital and the UK. Growing Harlow Town 2017 2018 5.00 5.00 0.00 825 900 project involving Highways Agency, Network methods are changing and in order to keep Centre Pinch Rail, local authorities, Manchester Airports pace with these technological innovations, Point Package: Group and other stakeholders, convened to a National Institute for Food Security is A1025 2nd determine the right package of infrastructure proposed for the Lea Valley, unifying Avenue / Velizy improvements required to support Stansted’s academic and research institutions across Avenue Junction development. London and the South East and involving the Improvement London LEP (as well as the Mayor of London) A104 and B1393 2017 2020 8.00 4.00 4.00 499 1500 4.103 and the Hertfordshire LEP. The emergence Loughton to Of importance also to the LSCC is its of a centre of excellence in this area will Epping route proximity to London. This has many provide jobs, investment opportunities, based strategy consequences as well as opportunities. One improved infrastructure as well as research Saffron Walden 2015-21 2015-21 2.00 1.00 1.00 450 1250 such opportunity relates to the quantity of centres for the existing land based colleges; Integrated land across the corridor (and indeed the rest Writtle, Rothamsted, Hadlow and Plumpton, Transport of Essex) given over to food production and as well as universities with an interest in food Package processing, in no small part directly supplying security. For this reason we will be progressing London. To keep pace with innovations in plans through the LEADER and ERDF Total 123.90 66.90 57.00 17,242 19,067 food production and agri-tech, significant programmes to develop NIFS as a national public and private investment will be centre of excellence. 4.97 4.99 needed in the sector. Within this corridor, Within the LSCC the majority of growth The advanced manufacturing sector in will be focused within Harlow, with the Harlow will be supported by development of Harlow Enterprise Zone (the Zone) providing the Harlow Manufacturing and Engineering opportunities to attract and grow life Centre. The Centre aims to provide state of sciences companies, as well as advanced the art facilities and equipment to deliver manufacturing and ICT. The EZ can deliver continuous learning in support of local over 5,000 jobs and could leverage in excess businesses in this sector and will place of £150m of private sector investment to employers in the driving seat through West Essex through the development of the establishment of a Group Training more than 130,000 sq. metres of floor space, Association. We are also supporting a over 51 hectares of employment land. The package of development at Templefields. At EZ will also be the home of one of Anglia North Weald we are working to develop an Ruskin University’s new MedTech campuses avionics hub for the south of England. campuses and also be supported by the 4.100 University Technology College, focussing on science, engineering and computing to Infrastructure development is essential to support medical technologies and smart enabling these developments. In particular, environments. the development of M11 Junction 7a is vital if the EZ is to reach its full capacity and 4.98 to ensure that the economic potential of At present, the site is limited to 5,000 jobs Harlow and the wider LSCC is achieved. due to lack of adequate supporting infra- 4.101 structure. However, if junction 7a of the M11 is built, then the site could accommodate With this investment, there is capacity to more than 5,000 jobs. We are currently under- directly deliver over 8,100 new jobs and taking a range of actions to bring the Zone over 9,000 homes in the LSCC to 2021. We forward, including working with landowners, will also unlock the potential for further jobs progressing a number of funding bids, and and homes through our enabling investment delivering our own public consultation and in infrastructure. Future plans are being feasibility studies in order to evidence the consulted on that would see these numbers need for the new M11 junction 7a. increase further in future years.
126 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 127 4.104 • Inward Investment: assisting firms to invest 4.115 We have identified the following potential investment opportunities in the LSCC Growth Corridor. and locate their business activity in Essex, We further request support from Government and promoting Essex to businesses in the to enable us to provide integrated business Table 4.15: LSCC Growth Corridor SEFUND Investments rest of the UK and abroad as a great support services to businesses in Essex. This place to do business. will mean exploring the local integration of Total Total Start End Full cost LGF funding Match nationally sponsored business support provision Scheme jobs housing 4.109 Date Date (£m) requirement funding (e.g. Growth Accelerator, MAS, UKTI), whether enabled enabled To address these priorities, Essex will work to as part of an overarching SE LEP brand or bring forward investment in facilities that Harlow EZ London 2015/16 2020/21 20.95 9.75 11.2 264 210 as an extension of developing Growth Hub will support innovation, business growth and Road Enabling models, such as Southend’s pilot work. and Delivery company creation. Through the proposed Growth Deal, Essex partners are looking Templefields 2015/16 2017/18 8.00 4.00 4 264 210 to co-invest with government in Business Skills Development Centres that offer provision such as business 4.116 Package & Civic networks; mentoring support; access to Amenity As detailed in this chapter, Essex has a expertise and facilities; and signposting to significant amount of opportunity for North Wield 2015/16 2019/20 9.00 5.00 4 198 600 other specialist support. Special attention economic and employment growth - large Airfield will be given to facilities which support our offshore developments off our north coast, Medtech 2015/16 2020/21 2.00 1.00 1 324 210 priority growth sectors. advanced medical technologies in the mid Campus - Harlow 4.110 and west, a rapidly growing care industry, a thriving creative sector and opportunity for Total 39.95 19.75 20.20 1,050 1,230 The Anglia Ruskin Med Tech Campus aims advancements in IT and Big Data. to provide one of the world’s largest health Productivity innovation spaces and drive business growth 4.117 in the UK MedTech and Life Sciences sector. Accordingly, tackling Essex’s skills challenge 4.105 4.107 It will help to establish Essex and the UK as a requires more than the commissioning of new If the South East economy is to sustain Support provision will respect and global centre in this sector and will secure skills programmes, it needs structural change growth, then our businesses will need to complement existing private sector provision. local and national economic growth. of the local skills system. We currently face compete with firms from across the globe. Essex partners propose to work with business 4.111 the following problems: Partners in Essex are committed to ensuring membership groups, such as Essex Chamber The ARU Med Tech Campus will be split • Too few apprenticeships and vocational that businesses have access to the right of Commerce, and the large network of over three sites: in Chelmsford, Harlow, training opportunities are in STEM-related support, particularly for firms in our priority private firms already providing professional and Southend. We have already achieved sectors; sectors that have the greatest potential for expertise and advice to companies. significant progress and have a clear • Many of our employers find it difficult to growth in the future. 4.108 programme in place to scale up and recruit, train and retain young people; and 4.106 Essex partners’ work to support enterprises, consolidate our business services operation, • Low levels of literacy, numeracy and At present, different providers of support promote competitiveness and attract inward our innovation support programme and the employability undermine residents’ to business work on a localised basis. This investment will cover four clear themes. associated knowledge transfer networks. chances of sustainable employment and generates some highly effective local These are: 4.112 undermine the productivity across the outcomes, but does not benefit from the local economy. • Supporting Start-Ups: supporting business The University of Essex Knowledge Gateway scale which a wider strategic approach start-ups and innovative spin-offs to be in Colchester will develop internationally 4.118 can bring. Going forward, partners across successful and to position themselves for significant assets in the field of Big Data. Our goal is to develop a workforce and a Essex – including the County Council, the growth; University of Essex and Anglia Ruskin University 4.113 network of education and skills provision • Innovation: creating an innovation – propose to integrate their business support that is responsive to the needs of local intensive environment within Essex We are supportive of the Growth Hub in arrangements, thus providing a joined-up business. This will ensure that local businesses, which is conducive to the creation and Southend. We will support further growth hubs and coherent pathway to business support particularly those in STEM-related sectors, exploitation of new ideas and helping in other locations where there is clear local to recognise the growth of emerging markets can access the skills they need to grow and to build capacity within local firms to demand and a demonstrable business case. and global trends and respond to changing that our residents can fulfil their ambitions. access, generate and commercialise new 4.114 demand. 4.119 innovations; With this programme of support, we can Essex has a distinguished record of • Internationalisation: helping firms to create and enable 41,700 new jobs in Essex achievement to date: create better links internationally, whether by 2021. We are also requesting £5m in LGF this be through exporting, importing, or to support revenue funding. This will enable • significantly boosting apprenticeships partnering with firms / institutions in other us to undertake our radical proposals to in key sectors through the Essex countries to facilitate economic growth in jointly deliver services through a close Apprenticeships programme – 2,600 new Essex; and partnership of local authorities and local opportunities since 2010 universities working together.
128 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 129 • establishing the highly regarded 4.120 4.121 4.125 employer-led Essex Employment and Skills We want to sustain and build on this Our transformational skills programme The college estate in Essex needs significant Board (ESB) - success. Much of our activity to date places Essex in a fabulous position to exploit investment; we have two colleges where www.esb.essexpartnership.org - to has been in response to a mismatch opportunities. In order to go further the Essex over 50% of the estates is in category C/D provide a strategic forum for employers to between the availability of skills provision ESB is leading the way with overarching and one just below. Essex would want to prioritise and affect change in the system and the needs of growth sectors, and the priorities, to: secure sufficient capital investment to ensure to meet changing labour market needs need to create pipelines through a clear our skills infrastructure can deliver provision • create a balanced approach to training • developing a multi-sectoral Skills Demand vocational pathway to employment and that meets the needs of employers and provision to better ensure the needs of Evidence Base and the concept of higher education. Essex’s key sector foci learners. Essex has and will continue to use employers and young people are met; the pan-LEP Supporting Workforce Skills include: advanced manufacturing, ports its robust skills evidence base to work with particularly focusing on increasing the employer portal, and logistics, energy generation including all providers to determine the gaps in our talent pool for and within STEM-related offshore wind and renewables, creative infrastructure but, through competition, • piloting a STEM in Schools programme sectors that brings employers, schools and young digital technology and the care economy would seek investment into: • increase the proportion of residents people together to stimulate interest in – a significant amount of which depend on who hold basic literacy and numeracy • Bio-Technology, Forensics and Medical, STEM careers through real experience STEM-related technical skill sets. qualifications and have acquired Environmental Science and Technologies, • reducing16-19 NEETs from 6.9% in March employability skills linked to the development of the new 2010 to 4.7% as at February 2014 Thames Enterprise Park in south Essex • increase participation of young people aged 16-24 in work, education and • An Advanced Manufacturing centre to training through enhancing employability support west Essex, linked with the Harlow and basic skills, raising awareness of Enterprise Zone careers in key sectors, and stimulating • STEM facilities in mid Essex, supporting apprenticeships and other employer engineering, manufacturing, creative supported vocational pathways. and capitalising on innovation and entrepreneurial skills 4.122 • Science and technology in north Essex The Essex ESB have set a number of priorities for action that will help achieve these • Construction, ICT and tourism in West Essex including a package of work and support • Specialist equipment to enable providers with secondary schools; sector tutor CPD to deliver against our skills priorities for STEM subjects; expansion of the STEM in (working to secure significant private Schools programme and financial support sector match). for SMEs to train young recruits to boost 4.126 youth employment and ensure greater productivity. We request a minimum figure of £13.8m of LGF to deliver our skills capital requirements 4.123 4.127 In partnership with SE LEP, Essex ESB will continue to push the boundaries of what To support its priorities and to add real value can be delivered in the employment and and additionally to the successful work skills system to ensure provision better reflects already being delivered, Essex has clear needs in the economy. priorities and project ambitions for European Social Funding. The Essex ESB will work with 4.124 local partners, through the LEP, to commission Working closely with the provider network, EU funded activity, matched pound for the ESB, through the LEP, would wish to pound by a combination of national opt influence the use of mainstream skills ins, local private, public and third sector funding (through the Adult Skills Budget) contributions. This will deliver the following: to try and address, particularly technical, 4.128 skill shortages in the area. In response, Essex Adult Community Learning will place We will invest in improving Employer-led increased focus and revenue on addressing Infrastructure to provide clearer engagement the literacy and numeracy challenge and routes for employers to ensure a better enhancing the employability of, particularly match between supply and demand for skills our unemployed, residents. and recruitment. We will work through the pan-LEP Supporting Workforce Skills portal to assist employers with training solutions and funding. We will also support priority sector
130 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 131 Guilds, bringing together employers and Full cost LGF funding providers to support skills development. Scheme Start Date End Date Match funding Wilkin & Sons (£m) requirement • We will deliver enhanced Information, Tiptree Bio and environmental Advice and Guidance (IAG) provision 2015/16 2015/16 32.00 6.00 26 Food manufacturers Tiptree Wilkin and Sons, to help young people and adults make tech centre, Basildon based at Tiptree in Essex, is famous throughout informed training, qualification and
C AS E ST U DY STEM at Braintree College 2015/16 2015/16 5.50 3.75 1.75 career choices through local industry- the world for its range of high-quality jams Harlow Manufacturing & led engagement programmes e.g. STEM 2015/16 2016/17 6.00 3.00 3 and marmalades, which are exported to Engineering Centre more than 65 countries. The company has Industry-schools project. STEM & Enterprise Training annual sales of around £20 million and has • We will work to increase the number 2015/16 2015/16 1.45 1.05 0.4 Centre, Maldon seen revenue rising annually for more than of apprenticeships & other vocational ten years, with the growth trend continuing provision by stimulating demand from Total 44.95 13.80 31.15 despite the global economic recession. employers through financial incentives to “The Tiptree name is now a global brand with increase the number of apprenticeships Housing a long history of success,” says Ian Thurgood, at all levels in key growth sectors to meet of economic activity and comparatively low 4.130 Joint Managing Director. “The Wilkin family has skills shortages. proportions of employment in higher skilled been farming in Tiptree since 1711 and has • We will improve employer-led Skills As a leading pilot area in the government’s occupations. produced jam since 1885.” Brokerage to simplify recruitment and One Public Estates pilot scheme, Essex authorities are actively identifying public 4.133 The company holds royal warrants for skills development at all levels for SMEs land in their ownership to support the delivery The east coast of Essex offers particular preserves and marmalades and Tiptree (e.g. GTA, Guilds, etc) promoting work of housing. Central to Essex’s pilot work opportunities in relation to offshore products are endorsed by celebrity chefs placements, apprenticeships, graduate has been the design and use of the Essex renewables and the supply chain servicing like Delia Smith. They are used in top hotels level internships – to increase the supply of Property Asset Map (EPAM). EPAM allows this sector, so this is where we feel we can and restaurants around the world. Although skills to priority sectors. partners for the first time to view the majority deliver maximum economic benefits for globally successful, Wilkin and Sons remains • We will support the up-skilling of the of public property holdings in any area in our coastal communities. Harwich is one a family firm with traditional production Essex workforce through bespoke Essex, allowing them to identify rationalisation of the UK’s largest port complexes in the methods. “We have made some major employer-led higher level skills training opportunities and release land to housing. This offshore renewables industry, made up of investments to maintain quality while for employers, including leadership and identification of land is feeding into a related Harwich International Port (HIP) and Harwich keeping pace with demand,” says Ian management skills training. This aims project being taken forward through the Navyard. HIP is one of the UK’s leading multi- Thurgood. “But all our products will continue to improve employer competitiveness Whole Essex Community Budget Programme, purpose freight and passenger ports and to be based on quality fruit grown locally and productivity, enables individuals that has seen local authorities working with is already at the leading edge of servicing in Essex.” A worldwide business like Wilkin to progress in work, thereby potentially housing associations, the probation service, offshore wind farm delivery. Within the same & Sons recognises the value of the logistics increasing new employment Essex Police and Fire and Rescue services, growth corridor, Brightlingsea is a minor port infrastructure in Essex. Ian Thurgood says, opportunities. We will also support HCA, and the government’s Property Unit to south of Harwich providing a well-established Proximity to London is also important.“ retraining for adults wishing to acquire skills identify land together for release to housing maintenance and operations service to for key growth sectors. delivery. It will also provide the basis for the Gunfleet Sands wind farm. In addition • We will run a series of activities aimed Essex’s contribution to SE LEP’s 2015 in 2015 to offshore wind and renewables, the ports at increasing inclusion, smoothing programme. also provide considerable opportunities in transitions to work, and reducing youth manufacturing, transport and logistics. unemployment. Support will include 4.131 work experience, interventions for 15-19 One ask of government is that local partners 4.134 year olds to reduce early entrants into are keen to influence the development of Planned developments at Pond Hall Farm the benefits system, on-going support regulatory frameworks with a view to shaping and Harwich Offshore Renewables will help for employers and job entrants and the behaviours of utilities companies, and to unlock further growth around the ports soft skills support packages to promote more effectively facilitating the delivery of for 2021 and beyond. Looking to the future, participation, access and retention. new housing and commercial space. expansion at Bathside Bay (adjacent to HIP) could offer additional land, which would 4.129 Coastal Communities build on the experience and capacity the We envisage benefiting from £27m of EU port already has to offer. This would maximise funding to deliver these ambitions and 4.132 the port’s opportunities in relation to its matching this 1:1 with a combination of There are significant economic opportunities geographical location and would allow the national opt ins, local private, public and across a range of sectors located within port to compete for installation, service and third sector contributions (this does not Essex’s coastal communities. However, the assembly contracts in relation to the Round 3 include CLLD). coastal towns, particularly in the Haven wind farms. Table 4.16: Essex Skills Capital Requirements Gateway corridor, also face a number of socio-economic challenges, with deprivation levels above the national average, low levels
132 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 133 4.135 Essex County Council, working closely 4.143 There will be significant investment into the growing offshore renewables industry over the with local partners, will act as the primary It is our expectation that Essex County coming years and Harwich is uniquely positioned to support this sector. In order to realise these commissioning body for the funding Council, capitalising on its role as opportunities, Essex partners are seeking government support for our proposals to designate devolved to Essex by the South East LEP. Essex Accountable Body for the whole of SE LEP, Harwich as a Centre for Offshore Renewable Engineering (CORE) location and securing Assisted County Council will, as a voting member of will be the administrator of devolved funding Area Status for Tendring. This will help to attract additional investment and increase economic the Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership from SE LEP. The governance arrangements activity across the area. (TGSEP), also work closely with partners in depicted as building blocks below are TGSE, ensuring alignment wherever possible. simplified for the sake of confidence and Delivery 4.140 clarity. While it is clear that lower-level geography specific or sector specific boards Ensuring close alignment to the requirements 4.136 or groupings are in place to advance the of Essex businesses, the Greater Essex A summary of the Essex Growth Deal by theme is provided in the table below. agenda, what is illustrated here are the Business Board (GEBB) has become arrangements which have a clear line of Table 4.17: Essex Investment and Outputs established and will perform the following sight to the South East LEP. Most are well function: established, though some arrangements are Full cost LGF funding Match Housing Essex Jobs enabled • Coordination of the responses of Essex, in their infancy. New or proposed Boards, (£m) requirement Funding enabled Southend and Thurrock businesses to SE such as the Local Innovation Board, are Transport 399.40 206.80 192.60 57,511 61,373 LEP’s proposals and initiatives; illustrated with a dotted line. • Development of proposals for economic SEFUND 274.98 71.38 203.65 8,960 6,699 growth and the advancement of business Productivity 5.00 5.00 0.00 41,696 0 interests for submission to SE LEP; Skills 44.95 13.80 31.15 2,163 525 • Advocate and promote the interests of the area by working with local authorities; Total 724.33 296.98 427.40 110,330 68,282 and • Work collaboratively to advance the collective interests of Essex, Southend and *Note: the sum of LGF funding requirements and match funding differs by, respectively, minus Thurrock. £12m and plus £12m due to local contribution to project costs. 4.141 GEBB’s primary role in the governance structure is one of project co-design and 4.137 to ensure private sector endorsement for Through the projects proposed, we can those decisions which are taken by local deliver a total of 110,300 jobs and 67,200 authorities for the advancement of projects homes. We are investing £427.4m of local underpinning growth. The Board is fully authority money, and requesting £296.3m in representative of the four sub-regions of LGF to match this. Essex, of the universities and of the three 4.138 main business membership organisations. Our shared ambitions for growth are fully 4.142 reflected in our commitment to delivery and It is with this strength that it meets at least the governance arrangements that underpin quarterly in advance of each SE LEP board it. We will build on our existing robust sub- meeting to form a robust Essex business regional partnership base (Haven Gateway view on the agenda. This arrangement is Partnership, West Essex Alliance, Heart of complemented by a meeting of the five Essex and Thames Gateway South Essex) to GEBB representatives on the SE LEP board advance investments into our economic with the five Essex, Southend and Thurrock growth corridors. We will work closely local authority representatives, scheduled with public and private sector partners to take place ahead of each LEP meeting. throughout Essex to ensure complementarity This public-private partnership meeting of investment and the maximisation of will provide important challenge where private sector leverage. necessary to ensure that Greater Essex presents the strongest possible complement 4.139 of investment opportunities to the LEP.
134 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 135 4.144 4.147 Decision-making requirements will generally We will develop a delivery plan or plans to P roj e c t Allo cat i ve St rate g i c fall into three categories, as below. support our objectives and ensure that LGF decision decision Approval and European funding is able to unlock Management Strategic growth as planned. Interventions will be making making Key group: ECEA & Leaders; Greater Essex clear, focused and integrated and will Business Board; ECC Cabinet (for transport engage wider stakeholders in their delivery. investment) We aim to have a final version of our delivery Local authority All local authorities will use existing plan(s) in place by November 2014. Dedicated Economic Plan governance, inc partnership arrangements to ensure 4.148 that the right decisions are taken by its project teams Delivery Group local cabinets - To support delivery of investment, we Cabinet. For example, in the case of e.g. ECC will - the existing ICS provides governance are allocating £1m to create a major transport, Highways Panels and local comission and Working Group infrastructure delivery unit to bring together and approval delivery partnerships will all be involved manage a team - inclusive of capacity across a range of public services, gates underpinning in the decision-making process which to operate any regeneration underpinned by a single infrastructure major investments. will ultimately be the role of Essex County plan for Essex. This will be supported by local version of leads from all Agreement of local Council. developing an Essex Planning Compact – a SEFUND district funding supporting South East Allocative series of collective commitments to deliver LGF LEP: Transport Key group: Economic Plan Delivery Group planning decisions faster and to offer sub-group (supported by businesses and HE/FE reps) other customer-focussed support to large supported by Projects which come forward for funding planning applications. An Essex Property Partnership Board will work with the delivery STIG for consideration at either the Economic Pan-Essex Greater Essex Business unit to support the use of local authorities’ Essex Local Board - private sector Plan Delivery Group or ECEA will all be Thematic independently and consistently appraised assets to incentivise investment on a project- Innovation endorsement of Delivery according to the value for money and by-project basis. The Property Partnership Essex projects; lead Groups - e.g. Board - appraisal guidance issued by the LEP. This Board will prepare a prospectus for all major the Enterprise proposed - to role in providing an will allow for fair comparative judgements development opportunities in Essex. and innovation spearhead a aggregated Essex at the requisite forum. A key task in the 4.149 strengthened position to the LEP group will immediate term will be identifying the To support the work of our major include LAs, partnership Board; duty to hold SE appropriate forum if partners consider that infrastructure delivery unit, local partners universities, to support LEP to account for its it does not exist already. require streamlined routes to engage with innovation. performance in Essex chambers South East Project management the range of government departments and agencies that invest in, or determine, LEP: Board Key group: Individual project sponsors infrastructure priorities in Essex (i.e. DfT, Each Delivery Plan will stipulate the supported by Highways Agency, DCLG, HCA, DECC, stakeholders involved in the delivery of secretariat Environment Agency). We therefore request projects and it will be expected that cross- Sub-regional Essex Employment and senior that government support us to achieve better Local level organisational groupings will convene partnerships - and Skills Board - Officer Group engagement with core departments and arrangements (potentially commissioned by Essex County including the directing investment agencies. and thematic Council) to advance projects. Oversight role of TG SE in to the skills agenda. groups - e.g. should be provided by the Economic Plan making funding 4 sub-regional skills support to GPF Delivery Group (current ICS working group). prioritisation partnerships and schemes, district decisions the Training Provider 4.146 level sector for Basildon, Network operate in It will be important to ensure that projects groupings Rochford and support of the ESB are advanced and approvals are Castle Point. achieved through individual governance arrangements within, for example, universities; district, borough and city Essex Leaders and councils; and other funding partners. This will Chief Executives include district-level business groupings and (ELCE) local level working groups which support our focus on growth corridors.
136 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 137 Kent and Medway Growth Deal
4.150 Kent and Medway’s Growth Deal is set out in full in Unlocking the Potential: Going for Growth, our six-year growth strategy consistent with the Strategic Economic Plan.
4.151 This chapter summarises Unlocking the Potential and sets out our Growth Deal proposals. Contents 1. Summary: The Kent and Medway Growth Deal 2. Introduction: Opportunities, challenges, solutions 3. The Growth Deal: Places for Growth 4. The Growth Deal: Infrastructure for Growth 5. The Growth Deal: Sectors for Growth 6. The Growth Deal: Skills for Growth 7. Making it happen: Delivering the Growth Deal
138 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 139 4.154 4.156 Summary: We will achieve this through a capital Alongside SEFUND, Kent County Council investment programme focused on: will provide matching funding of at least £10 million per year to accelerate the • the key transport projects which will delivery of housing and commercial The Kent and Medway unlock our priority sites; developments – investing in those that are Growth Deal • the recyclable South East-wide SEFUND close to the tipping point of viability as well investment fund, which will invite bids from as supporting the delivery of those that are 4.152 4.153 housebuilders and developers to bring further away from the market. We will match Through the Kent and Medway Growth Deal Alongside our investment proposals, our forward new housing and commercial our transport programme 1:1 in public and as part of the Strategic Economic Plan, the deal for growth sets out the actions that and energy infrastructure schemes; private investment. We will ensure at least public and private sectors intend to invest businesses and local authorities in Kent and • Investment in our skills infrastructure linked 50% upfront private sector match funding over £80 million each year for the next six Medway, together with the South East LEP with the needs of our key economic on all finance directed to business. And years to unlock our potential through: and central Government will take to drive sectors; and we will back our capital programme with • Substantially increasing the delivery of forward delivery. Together, we will deliver: • Direct access to business finance and new revenue investment in sector-focused careers guidance, business support and job housing and commercial developments; Housing growth: We will deliver 49,000 homes support to back businesses in key sectors matching. In total, our proposals for the Local over the next six years – meeting the needs with the appetite and capacity for • Delivering transport and broadband Growth Fund will secure over £2.25 billion in of our growing population and economy. growth. infrastructure to unlock growth; public and private leverage. 4.155 • Backing business expansion through Private sector employment: We will help better access to finance and support; and to create 60,000 new jobs by unlocking The Growth Deal sets out our case for housing and commercial development sites Local Growth Fund investment in Kent and Proposed investment • Delivering the skills that the local and creating sector growth through better Medway as part of an intelligent funding economy needs. access to finance. package, alongside the new European 4.157 structural fund programme, existing Regional Increased economic value: We will increase Over the next six years, we seek to secure Growth Funds, developer contributions and Kent and Medway’s levels of productivity and £501 million through the Local Growth Fund, local authority funds. innovation, leading to an additional 11,000 matched with other sources: knowledge economy jobs over six years.
Loal Growth Fund: Six-year programme Loal Growth Fund: Six-year programme
Business Finance Sector Growth £28 million (capital) £6 million (revenue)
Skills Capital Employment and Skills £29.25 million £4.5 million (revenue) (capital) p.43
SEFUND/ development Employment and Skills £74.2 million (capital) £4.5 million (revenue)
140 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 141 Headline investment breakdown 6 Building on our existing commitment to Asks and offers underwrite £40 million in infrastructure 4.158 investment at Eastern Quarry and our flexibility in renegotiating developer This Growth Deal is about an agreement Local Growth Jobs and homes contributions, we fully back the with Government. Linked with our six- Fund contribution unlocked (all Government’s proposals for Ebbsfleet Total year investment plan, Kent and Medway (£m) years) Garden City, including the creation of Programme value Economic Partnership makes ten an Urban Development Corporation. We commitments and asks: (£m) will work with Government to create an 2015-21 2015/16 Jobs Homes 1 Across Kent and Medway, we will invest effective, 21st century UDC for Ebbsfleet. £60 million in direct local authority 7 We will promote a further Garden City contributions to our proposed six-year Transport Investment 701.5 359.6 67.8 140,500 114,584 at Chilmington as part of the growth of transport programme, alongside a Ashford and we ask Government to work 6-year prioritised investment in further £350 million in private and other with us and Natural England to unblock key transport schemes to unlock contributions to match proposed Local the stalled development of the major commercial and housing growth and Growth Fund investment. ensure the resilience of our transport new community at Lodge Hill. 2 As part of this, in 2014/15, we will start network. 8 We will focus new further education on delivery of transport schemes worth a our priority growth areas – with Ashford SEFUND/ Land and Development 1,871.0 74.2 23.0 15,720 13,800 combined £72 million and which will seek International College shovel-ready for Local Growth Fund support in 2015/16. New recyclable fund for commercial 2015 and partly match funded by Ashford and residential development through 3 We will prioritise an element of Local Borough Council. independently-managed loan, equity Growth Fund investment in national 9 For all our proposed access to finance, and grant support. Highways Agency schemes, to unlock business support and employment and growth on the A2-M2 Corridor, where Skills Capital 79.0 29.3 10.25 - - skills proposals, we will fund 100% of this is accompanied by a firm Highways development, start-up and management 6-year programme of investment in Agency commitment to bring forward costs from local resources in 2014/15 – so premises and equipment for further and early delivery. In exchange, we ask for that we hit the ground running and start vocational education – focused on greater flexibility in HA policy to allow us delivery no later than 1 April 2015. growth and key business sectors to deliver a new M2 junction unlocking Business Finance 80.0 28.0 8.0 8,250 - significant high-value employment, and 10 As part of our agreement to manage to devolve delivery where local partners Local Growth Fund capital investments Direct finance for businesses with the can deliver cheaper and quicker. in transport and development, we will appetite and capacity for growth, ensure that no funds are allocated 4 In addition, we will invest at least £10 focused on promoting innovation within without clear commitments from private million per year for six years in local our key business sectors. sector developers to accelerate build- authority capital in specific projects in Sector Growth 9.0 6.0 1.0 1,000 - out. In exchange, we ask for freedom Kent and Medway alongside proposed to determine scheme prioritisation A coordinated approach to helping SEFUND investments – unlocking new and programme management so that businesses grow across Kent and development as well as making a return we can respond to the market and to Medway – linking local and national to the taxpayer. those developers with the appetite and support. 5 We will match our proposals for housing capacity to accelerate delivery. Employment and Skills 8.0 4.5 0.75 - - market renewal in coastal Kent with £20 million future local authority investment All-age careers sector-focused to bring empty and poor quality homes guidance, jobs matching and back into family use. We ask for greater brokerage. powers to crack down on rogue landlords Total 2,576.5 501.5 110.8 165,390 128,380 and reduce the flow of vulnerable families into areas with concentrated deprivation.
142 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 143 We have internationally important 4.164 Co ntext infrastructure But today, the county’s economy is rapidly changing. Increasingly dominated by small Opportunities, Big opportunities for 4.161 and medium enterprises, Kent and Medway Kent and Medway is Britain’s gateway has a diverse and resilient economic base – challenges, solutions g row t h county. Our strategic port, rail and road with strengths in growing sectors. infrastructure is vital in linking continental We have an excellent partnership 4.159 4.160 Europe with London and the rest of the UK, As the national economy returns to growth, Kent and Medway is growing. Over the next and is becoming increasingly important as between business and local Kent and Medway has major opportunities twenty years, our population will increase freight volumes through the Port of Dover government and Eurotunnel rise and Eurostar passenger for expansion, building on two decades of by 13%, or around 220,000 – equivalent to 4.165 infrastructure investment and an excellent five towns the size of Tunbridge Wells, with numbers continue to grow. Recent In Kent and Medway, we have benefited partnership between local government and growth especially concentrated in the investment in major transport infrastructure from a strong partnership over many business. But if we are to fully unlock our Thames Gateway and at Ashford and with has brought Kent and Medway closer to years between local government and potential, we must overcome the transport GVA growth significantly above the national markets and employment opportunities, in the private sector for well over a decade. and infrastructure and financing constraints average over the past decade. This growth particular through the dramatic reductions in Our established sector-focused business that impede growth – and we must support will be supported by the county’s strategic journey times between North and East Kent networks include Kent Developers’ Group, our key business sectors in accessing the position between London and the Continent, and London as a result of High Speed One. the county-wide Business Advisory Board skills and support they need. This section sets growth in a series of key sectors and a strong With Kent and Medway an early adopter of and powerful district business consortiums. out our opportunities and challenges – and and positive relationship between local national and local government investment in These relationships have been recently the big solutions we must progress through business and local government. high speed broadband, better connectivity reinforced by the establishment of the Kent our Growth Deal. is opening up new business opportunities, especially in rural parts of the county. and Medway Economic Partnership, chaired by the private sector and including leading We have a transforming economic businesses from all areas and sectors of the base with opportunities in key growth county’s economy. sectors 4.166 4.162 Business has debated our emerging plans For much of the twentieth century, the Kent via our key sector groups the Chambers and Medway economy was dominated by of Commerce and our representative traditional industries. Proximity to the London organisations, local business partnerships construction market and the abundance of and organisations such as Locate in Kent, chalk gave rise to major building materials Visit Kent and Produced in Kent. So we are and quarrying industries, especially in North confident that our plans represent both Kent. Naval shipyards supported extensive credibility and commitment in pursuit of an defence-related and engineering activities. environment to stimulate business growth. The UK’s largest concentration of paper We have a strong track record of making industries developed along the success Medway, while domestic tourism, largely geared to the London market, flourished in 4.167 seaside towns such as Margate, Folkestone In Kent and Medway, we are committed to and Herne Bay. As the ‘Garden of England’, growth. For example: Kent’s high quality agricultural land and easy • We are delivering England’s most access to markets made the county the successful Enterprise Zone. Three years on country’s centre for fruit production. from Pfizer’s decision to exit its R&D facility 4.163 in Sandwich, over 1,300 jobs have now The past twenty years have seen the been secured on site – helped by over £6 economy transformed. Global economic million direct investment by Kent County change has meant that much of the Council in addition to national support. county’s traditional industrial base has been • Our Regional Growth Fund programmes eroded, in many cases leaving a physical are highly successful in unlocking legacy of redundant sites and buildings and business finance. With banks reluctant communities without their previous economic to lend to growing businesses, we have drivers – and historically, Kent and Medway established three new access to finance has lagged behind the rest of the South East. programmes, securing over £55 million RGF investment so far. Already, we have
144 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 145 issued £27 million of this initial investment 4.169 Solutions Take firm action to deliver coastal in interest-free loans to businesses with So returning to a sustainable level of growth renewal. growth potential, creating over 2,250 jobs. – for housing and employment - is essential if 4.171 4.175 All funds will have been issued as loans by we are to meet the county’s future needs. the end of 2014/15 and we will ultimately Taking into account our big opportunities We will take bold steps to tackle 4.170 create over 8,000 jobs. and the challenges that we face, this Growth housing market failures and significant From discussions with businesses and our Deal in the pages that follow identifies the • We are developing new solutions to concentrations of deprivation in many sector partnerships such as Kent Developers’ solutions that we need to unlock growth in unlock housing growth. Through the Kier parts of coastal Kent, while promoting the Group, we have identified fourkey factors Kent and Medway as part of our Strategic Kent Initiative, we have attracted private opportunities presented by coastal renewal. on which our return to growth depends: Economic Plan for the South East. We will: investment to build homes for affordable We will take draconian measures to remove and market rent and market sale on • Our ability to unlock major development Invest in a strategic transport landlords who put their residents at risk and sites. In parts of the county – especially we will limit the placement of vulnerable publicly-owned land, at a time when build programme for growth. rates remain low. East Kent – the gap between the costs of households in areas of housing market failure. the infrastructure to unlock growth and We will also invest in renewal projects in • We are taking an integrated approach 4.172 the receipts that these developments will partnership between the public and private to the economic challenges faced by We will invest £359 million from the Local yield is wide, even as the market returns. sectors. our coastal towns. In 2006, Kent County Growth Fund in transport infrastructure to So we need solutions to reduce costs and Council invested £5 million to return open up key housing and employment Deliver backing for business growth bridge the viability gap on identified sites. empty properties to use. So far, this has sites. We will ensure that all commitments to 4.176 resulted in 3,000 refurbished homes, with • The resilience of our strategic transport transport funding from the public sector are the fund continuing to recycle, supporting network. Kent and Medway has benefited accompanied by developer commitments to We will invest in a more coordinated our ambitious Live Margate housing from significant investment in road and build within a specified period. approach to business support, focused on market renewal programme delivered rail infrastructure. But as international backing businesses with the capacity for traffic rises on major routes, our capacity Open up new solutions for housing and innovation and expansion, and on those as a partnership between Kent County commercial growth. Council and Thanet District - breaking up will become increasingly limited. So sectors with the greatest capacity for the concentrations of deprivation and we need to address bottlenecks on 4.173 growth and added value. This will include the strategic network, especially in the developing the Kent Growth Hub as a poor quality housing that undermine our Through SEFUND, we will invest alongside Thames Gateway. It is very welcome that central point of information and access to economic potential. the private sector in bringing forward key the Government has now ruled out the support for business. • We are sharing the risks of development development sites which are close to least viable of the three options for a new to unlock growth. At Eastern Quarry, the viability, but where market confidence motorway crossing of the Thames – and Places for growth local authorities have already committed remains weak – in particular, making support we now must find new ways to finance future New Homes Bonus receipts to bring available to smaller developers where bank delivery at the earliest opportunity. 4.177 forward essential highways works which finance remains challenging. We will also could unlock the first 1,500 homes in this • Our skills potential. Over the next twenty invest in measures to revitalise the housing We will focus our investment on: vitally important location. years, the Kent and Medway workforce market and town centres where they remain • Thames Gateway Kent – the A2/M2 will grow more slowly than the population blighted by market failure and in non- Corridor as a whole – so we will need to increase Challenges transport infrastructure where it is essential to • East Kent (including Ashford) – the High productivity and drive forward our human unlocking growth. Speed One Growth Corridor 4.168 resource potential – ensuring business has a real role in skills planning and getting Unlock private investment in businesses • Maidstone – the M20 Corridor • The expansion of jobs and homes in Kent more people into work. with the appetite for growth. • West Kent – the A21 Corridor and Medway and Medway is essential to the growth of Valley the national economy. However, during • The innovative capacity of our businesses. 4.174 recession, housing delivery has fallen In a competitive world, we need more We will build on the success of TIGER and substantially short of requirement. As we businesses to invest in R&D, new products, Expansion East Kent in creating over 8,000 recover from the downturn, we need to goods and services. So we need to make it jobs to make it much easier for SMEs in our deliver almost 7,000 homes a year across easier for businesses to unlock the finance key growth sectors to access loan finance Kent and Medway. Yet although planning and support that they need to expand. and equity investment. For every pound from permissions are in place, the impact of the public sector we will secure £3 in private recession on viability in many parts of investment, linked with support for firms with the county means that last year, we only the potential for high growth and innovation, delivered half of our requirement. building on our successful RGF programmes – which will have invested all their original capital by 2015/16.
146 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 147 local roads – compounding the pressure The Ebbsfleet Garden City Deal Thames Gateway imposed by through traffic from the Channel. Ebbsfleet Garden City will deliver over 15,000 homes and up to 20,000 jobs. We seek £30 million in Ke nt • Major sites remain stalled. Although the transport investment for: pace of development is accelerating as 4.178 the market improves, especially in Dartford, • Two crucial junction improvements on the A2 at Bean and Ebbsfleet. These will improve The Thames Gateway is a national priority there are still significant constraints on access between Ebbsfleet, Eastern Quarry, Swanscombe and the A2. However, as both for growth. Over the next six years, we will delivery. Major developers remain risk schemes are on the Highways Agency network, we expect that they will be funded and focus on unlocking the potential of the averse, credit constraints continue to impact delivered by the HA. new Garden City at Ebbsfleet, the university smaller developers and infrastructure costs • Improvements to the junction of the A226 and B255, which already experiences significant city at Medway and opportunities at are high on brownfield sites. congestion at peak times and which must gain increased capacity for development at Sittingbourne and Sheppey. Our proposals • Skills levels and economic output Ebbsfleet-Paramount and at a number of other sites in Dartford and Gravesham to proceed. for growth anticipate over £1.8 billion continue to lag. Despite major • Better links between the existing communities at Northfleet and Swanscombe to the north of investment in Thames Gateway Kent over the improvements in recent years, North Ebbsfleet and the new employment and residential development to the south. next six years, including almost £200 million Kent’s industrial legacy is reflected in investment through the Local Growth Fund. • Additional investment in the Fastrack urban transport system – essential in linking new and comparatively low productivity and skills. existing communities with employment opportunities and Ebbsfleet International – and in the Opportunities Solutions: Unlocking wider public transport network. Alongside this investment and that in the Government’s recent announcement, we will: • We have some of the UK’s most important g row t h locations for growth, including Ebbsfleet, • Prioritise future skills capital investment for Ebbsfleet Garden City, linked with the development identified as a new Garden City with Ebbsfleet Garden City of an integrated skills strategy for Dartford and Gravesham, recognising the scale of potential potential for up to 15,000 homes and 4.179 employment to be generated by Ebbsfleet and Swanscombe Peninsula. Swanscombe Peninsula, with the prospect of up to 27,000 jobs through a major leisure Ebbsfleet extends for 420 hectares between • Prioritise SEFUND investment for Ebbsfleet Garden City, supporting the future UDC in attracting development. We strongly welcome the Ebbsfleet International in the east and high quality development to the area. Government’s announcement of support Bluewater in the west. While the first phase • Work positively alongside Government to create an open, democratic, 21st century Urban for Ebbsfleet, with the associated promise of development has come forward, the Development Corporation, closely working with both the local District and County Councils. of £200 million additional investment. economic downturn has largely stalled delivery. Despite flexibility from the local • Major transport investments have authorities in renegotiating developer transformational potential. High Speed contributions and sharing risks in bringing One means that Ebbsfleet International is forward infrastructure, residential delivery has just 17 minutes from central London and been extremely slow, and there has been Rochester is just half an hour. no progress in bringing forward commercial • North Kent’s regeneration has been development around Ebbsfleet International successful and profound. Exceptional station. Meanwhile, the nearby 335 hectare quality waterfront development in Swanscombe Peninsula site has great Medway, Gravesend and Dartford potential for development as a major leisure highlights the emphasis on quality, while destination. the rapid growth of the Universities at Medway highlights the pace of economic 4.180 transformation. We need a concerted approach to unlock • North Kent has significant economic Ebbsfleet and bring forward Swanscombe growth opportunities. There are strengths – so the Government’s announcement in many of Kent and Medway’s priority that it is to create a new Garden City at growth sectors, including manufacturing in Ebbsfleet, with the establishment of an Medway and Sittingbourne , life sciences at Urban Development Corporation to drive it Kent Science Park, and a growing creative forward is entirely welcome. As part of our cluster at Medway. Growth Deal, we will back the Government’s commitment. We will seek to bring Local Challenges Growth Fund and our own local resources to bear alongside the Government’s • The transport network is under pressure. £200 million pledge, in a comprehensive North Kent contains a large number of investment package, set out in the Ebbsfleet major sites in close proximity. This impacts Garden City Deal: on the strategic A2 and M2 as well as on
148 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 149 Dartford and Gravesend and the development of 3,000 sq metres 4.186 of managed workspace. In addition, the Isle of Grain is a significant centre for port-related and energy generation 4.182 • Strood: three key regeneration sites activities. The expansion of development on land near Thamesport offers potential for around together providing 1,600 new homes and 6,000 new jobs, while the anticipated growth of the offshore wind industry offers additional Dartford and Gravesham will be impacted 20,000 sq m of commercial, retail and manufacturing opportunities. by the scale of growth at Ebbsfleet and office space. These include: will benefit from the employment and • Strood Riverside, with 600 residential investment associated with it. However, the of loans through the RGF-funded TIGER units and approximately 1,000 area contains major scope for additional The Medway City Deal programme, we will give Enterprise Zone sq metres of commercial space. growth beyond Ebbsfleet itself, and we seek status to Rochester Airport, with the Medway Council is investing £3m via We seek £58 million in transport investment Local Growth Fund investment in transport ability to offer reduced business rates to a Treasury loan in the construction from the Local Growth Fund, including: programmes to support growth in Dartford businesses locating on the site; and Gravesend town centres, including the of flood defences to unlock the • Improved access to Lodge Hill and the • Expand existing locally-based extension of the Fastrack urban transport second phase of this key waterfront Isle of Grain, including road improvements employment brokerage services to system, which links both towns with Ebbsfleet. development; on the A289 and at the Medway Tunnel, ensure that local residents (especially in • Redevelopment of Civic Centre: 4.183 and on the A228 to improve access to disadvantaged communities) are able Mixed use development on 6.94ha Thamesport. Major developments include the expansion to access the employment opportunities site, comprising approximately 400 • Improvements to connections in Chatham of Dartford and Gravesend town centres that will be created by local and national residential units, 2,000 sq m of retail town centre, including better links to the and the large brownfield housing and investment in unlocking key sites. and leisure uses and 2,000 sq m of rail station; commercial developments at St James’s Alongside this, we ask Government to: office accommodation. Significant • Improvements to the road network in Lane Pit and Northfleet Embankment. investment in flood defences is Strood, supporting housing delivery • Remove the current blight on private Medway required to prepare the site for at Strood Riverside and including investment at Thamesport and on the Isle development. improvements at Strood rail station. The of Grain (and throughout Medway), by • Temple Waterfront: Mixed use package of improvements in Strood also conclusively ruling out a Thames Estuary 4.184 redevelopment scheme, regenerating includes measures to improve access to Airport; Medway is the largest urban conurbation the site of a former cement works, Medway City Estate, a major employment • Work with Natural England to permit in the South East LEP area, with a current industrial timber yard, landfill area and location. development at Lodge Hill, and work with population of 264,000, rising to around green open space. It will comprise Medway Council and Land Securities to 300,000 over the next twenty years. 620 residential units and 15,000 sq m In addition, prospective priorities for SEFUND establish solutions to allow North Kent’s 4.185 We aim to create a city of culture, of commercial floorspace. Lack of investment include Rochester Airport and second largest mixed-use development to learning and enterprise, with a major retail enabling infrastructure is making the Strood Riverside. proceed; and cultural centre and a strong university site unattractive to the private sector. We will: • Alongside our designation of Rochester presence. Achievements over the past • Rochester Airport, a key site for Airport as an Enterprise Zone, permit the decade in delivering against this vision are • Invest local authority resources alongside commercial development just off Junction local retention of 100% of business rate considerable: while Medway had no higher SEFUND in Rochester Airport and Strood 4 of the M2 and adjacent to BAE Systems receipts on the site over and above the education presence at the end of the 1990s, Riverside, subject to full independent and the flagship Medway Innovation locally-determined discount rate, ensuring it now houses four universities. Medway’s appraisal and decision by Medway Centre. Over 1,000 jobs could be created that the Enterprise Zone incentive scheme future growth is focused on taking forward Council; on the site through the development can be locally funded and supporting the development of: of managed workspace, advanced • Develop a joint strategy for innovation the local contribution to essential road • Chatham city centre, including manufacturing research and prototyping and enterprise support between Medway infrastructure; development at Chatham Waterfront), workshops and industrial units. Greenwich Council and the four universities at • Provide flexibility regarding historic Thames the redevelopment of the retail core University with Medway Council will seek Medway, linked with the expansion of Gateway investment in the strategic (including the redevelopment of the investment from SEFUND from 2015. facilities for innovation at Rochester Strood Riverside site, where Government’s existing Pentagon Centre car park Airport and Chatham city centre. This • Lodge Hill, on former Ministry of Defence first claim on eventual capital receipts and Tesco site) and new investment in will build on the successful package of land with capacity for 5,000 homes. currently make further local investment attracting visitors to Chatham’s world business support offered by University of At present, our ability to bring forward unviable. We ask DCLG to consider class naval heritage. Greenwich at Medway Innovation Centre; development at Lodge Hill is currently greater flexibility, allowing future capital • Rochester Riverside, one of the Thames blighted by a Natural England decision – • Together with our agreed joint university receipts from the site to be ploughed Gateway’s flagship regeneration sites, despite over £34 million private investment innovation strategy, our capital back into the Strood Riverside scheme via occupying 32 hectares between the River so far. However, when brought forward, investment in Rochester Airport, Assisted SEFUND. Medway and the London-Dover railway Lodge Hill will be the largest residential Area designation and the availability line. With capacity for 1,400 homes, development in North Kent outside extensive public investment has helped Ebbsfleet Valley. to de-risk the site for development, which is now coming forward. This will include a new station due for completion in 2015
150 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 151 Sittingbourne and A226 London Road/ St 2015/16 2019/20 8.70 4.20 4.50 5120 2440 Sheppey Park’s expansion, with the potential Clements Way creation of a further 1,800 jobs in a new Jct 4.187 phase of the successful campus. Northfleet 2015/16 2019/20 10.70 6.40 4.30 1300 510 The A249 between the Port of Sheerness • Improved access to residential and Station & Link and the M2 contains one of the most commercial developments in northeast Dartford significant concentrations of manufacturing Sittingbourne. This includes two key Town Centre 2014/15 2018/19 9.00 2.30 6.70 1500 3070 employment in the South of England. It schemes: the completion of the improvements Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road to also contains, Kent Science Park, a major Rathmore Road 2014/15 2016/17 8.00 4.10 3.90 700 890 centre for life sciences and environmental provide direct access from the A249 Link, Gravesend technologies with plans to expand. to the A2 and improvements to the A226 Thames Grovehurst Junction on the A249 in north 2015/16 2020/21 8.90 3.50 5.40 4500 2440 4.188 Sittingbourne. Way dualling The area contains significant additional land Sittingbourne 4.189 for residential and commercial development, Northern Relief 2018/19 2020/21 28.60 23.10 5.50 1000 2000 including in Sittingbourne itself and at Sittingbourne is the largest town in Kent Road Queenborough and Rushenden on the Isle of without further education provision. Within A249 2018/19 2018/19 2.00 1.00 1.00 2500 1300 Sheppey. Key investments to unlock growth proposals for the regeneration of the Grovehurst Jct town centre, there are plans to develop in Sittingbourne and Sheppey include: M2 Junction 5a 2017/18 2019/20 20.00 12.00 8.00 1800 0 a FE facility, which may come forward for • Improvements to Junction 5 of the M2. At potentially £4-5 million skills capital funding Sittingbourne present, Junction 5 is extremely congested from the Local Growth Fund over the coming Town Centre 2015/16 2017/18 4.50 2.50 2.00 950 500 at peak hours and is the sole point of years. In the shorter term, the existing Swale Regen access to the M2 from Sittingbourne and Skills Centre (which provides skills for the Kent Thameside Sheppey. Future growth in western Swale 2015/16 2020/21 7.54 4.51 3.03 963 657 engineering and manufacturing sectors, LSTF therefore depends on significant capacity including the offshore wind industry) has an improvements. A289 Four Elms opportunity to expand vocational provision Rbt to Medway 2015/16 2017/18 16.30 11.10 5.20 7688 4433 • The development of a new Junction 5a in 2015/16 and will be an immediate priority Tunnel and a link road to Kent Science Park from for skills capital support. the M2. This would facilitate the Science A228 Grain Crossing 2017/18 2020/21 15.00 15.00 0.00 5445 0 removal Chatham town 2015/16 2017/18 6.90 4.00 2.90 6000 3000 The Kent CORE centre Chatham station 2016/17 2018/19 1.40 0.70 0.70 271 682 improvements Swale and the Medway Estuary form the heart of the Kent Centre for Offshore Renewable Strood town Engineering (CORE), and is one of the most promising locations in the UK for the development 2015/16 2018/19 10.00 9.00 1.00 1000 1000 of renewable energy, especially offshore wind. The strong local manufacturing base provides centre opportunities for supply chain development, which will be underpinned by proposed Assisted Strood station 2016/17 2018/19 2.50 1.25 1.25 520 542 Area designation for part of Medway, Sittingbourne and Sheppey. improvements Medway City Estate 2015/16 2017/18 2.00 2.00 0.00 851 0 connectivity Key investments in the Thames Gateway Medway towns Table 4 18: Thames Gateway (A2/M2 Corridor) Transport Investments integrated 2015/16 2020/21 12.00 6.00 6.00 129 87 transport Total A2 Corridor Start Full cost LGF funding Match Total jobs Scheme End Date homes journey time 2015/16 2016/17 2.00 2.00 0.00 129 87 Date (£m) requirement funding enabled improvements enabled A289 Medway A2 Bean 2017/18 2019/20 50.00 10.00 40.00 36000 14000 Tunnel 2015/16 2020/21 9.20 5.00 4.20 5000 0 Junction maintenance A2 Ebbsfleet 2017/18 2019/20 30.00 6.00 24.00 0 0 Medway cycling Junction 2015/16 2020/21 3.00 2.50 0.50 129 87 action plan M2 Junction 5 2019/20 2020/21 100.00 15.00 85.00 8000 12500 Total 368.24 153.16 215.08 91,495 50,225
152 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 153 Table 4.19: Thames Gateway (A2/M2 Corridor) SEFUND Investments Table 4 20: Thames Gateway (A2/M2 Corridor) Skills Capital Investments
Match Scheme Start Date End Date Full cost (£m) Homes LGF funding Total funding Start End Full cost Match Total jobs Scheme re- homes Swale Skills Date Date (£m) funding enabled 2014/15 2015/16 1.00 0.75 0.25 quirement enabled Centre St James Pit 2019/20 2022/23 80.0 1.0 79.00 800 MidKent 2014/15 2015/16 1.00 0.50 0.50 Dartford Station College 2015/16 2020/21 200.0 1.5 198.50 500 500 Mound Sittingbourne Ebbsfleet Further 2018/19 2020/21 9.00 4.00 5.00 2016/17 2030/31 200.0 5.0 195.00 2,000 2,000 Garden City Education Gravesend Ebbsfleet 2016/17 2020/21 100.0 1.5 98.50 1,000 town centre Garden City 2018/19 2019/20 10.00 2.50 7.50 FE provision University for the Creative Total 1,426.00 1,426.00 6,820 2017/18 2019/20 6.0 1.0 5.00 250 Arts Rochester Campus Rochester Airport Business 2015/16 2016/17 100.00 8.0 92.00 250 East Kent Park 4.190 associated with Discovery Park and in Rochester East Kent contains some of Britain’s most transport and logistics associated with East Riverside 2016/17 2016/17 5.00 2.0 3.00 100 iconic natural and built landmarks and offers Kent’s port-related activity. Canterbury’s managed an excellent quality of life. But it also has large higher education base. workspace significant capacity for growth, building on • Government support for growth is Strood Civic greatly improved connectivity, with Ashford working. The Regional Growth Fund- Centre 2016/17 2018/19 150.00 10.0 140.00 300 400 expanding more over the next decade than backed Expansion East Kent programme redevelopment any other Kent district. is highly successful, with over £18 million Temple already channelled into local companies, 2015/16 2015/16 200.00 2.0 198.00 500 620 Waterfront Opportunities unlocking private finance and creating Pentagon jobs. Centre 2015/16 2015/16 25.00 1.0 24.00 100 • East Kent is better connected. While East redevelopment Kent has always been a vital gateway between the UK and continental Europe, Challenges Tesco site re- High Speed One services have reduced development, 2015/16 2015/16 10.00 1.0 9.00 100 domestic journeys dramatically • Major sites are often difficult to bring Chatham forward. Although aspirations for growth • Perceptions of East Kent are changing, are high in East Kent, values for housing Sittingbourne Where East Kent was once peripheral and 2016/17 2019/20 250.0 2.0 248.00 1,570 400 and employment land are relatively low Town Centre distant, we are now closer to London than (and become lower east of Canterbury Queenborough Cambridge. 2017/18 2019/20 100.0 2.0 98.00 1,100 and Ashford) and local infrastructure & Rushenden • Our cultural and tourism offer is improving. constraints are often significant. East Kent is naturally a strong tourism Total 1,426.00 38.00 1,388.00 5,670 6,820 • Concentrations of deprivation are proposition. But investment in facilities such hard to overcome. Particularly within as Turner Contemporary at Margate, the coastal towns such as Margate and Marlowe at Canterbury and Folkestone Dover, entrenched worklessness and Creative Quarter have expanded the disadvantage is reinforced by local tourism offer housing market failures which require a • There is significant capacity for growth. concerted effort to tackle. East Kent retains a competitive advantage • Infrastructure bottlenecks are significant, in land and wage costs, with extensive and could hold back growth. While there amounts of serviced employment land. has been substantial investment in road • There are strong sector opportunities, infrastructure, pinch points on the A2 for example in tourism and the cultural present challenges, especially given the and creative industries, in life sciences expansion of the Port of Dover.
154 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 155 Solutions: Unlocking 4.193 The scale of growth at Ashford is substantial, and requires a coordinated package. As part of our g row t h Growth Deal, we will take forward an integrated Ashford City Deal, set out below.
Ashford 4.191 Ashford International City Deal Between 2001 and 2011, population growth • The development of the Jasmin Vardimon in Ashford was the third fastest in the South International Dance Academy; We ask Government to consider the potential for Chilmington Green as a new Garden City when the Government launches its consultation later this year. With a planning application already East – with 7,500 jobs created over the same • M20 Junction 10a, the development of submitted and our proposed programme of investment to unlock it, Chilmington can be an period. Ashford is ambitious to continue this which will directly unlock around 4,000 jobs early success for the Garden Cities programme. rapid rate of growth, underpinned by the as well as facilitating growth throughout creation of a new Garden City. Ashford and East Kent; We seek £33.7 million in Local Growth Fund transport investment to support projects including: 4.192 • Improvements to the A28 to facilitate • A new partial motorway junction at M20 Junction 10A, opening up sites to the south east Growth in Ashford is central to the economic access to Chilmington Green, a major of Ashford and unlocking over 11,000 jobs and 9,000 homes. This scheme has already been expansion of East Kent, and will be focused urban extension to the south west of approved by the South East Local Transport Board under earlier arrangements for the around eight major programmes: Ashford delivering 5,750 homes and 1,000 allocation of Local Growth Fund transport money; • Ashford Commercial Quarter, focused on jobs; and • Improvements to the A28 at Chart Road to open up access to 5,750 homes at Chilmington land adjacent to Ashford International • The safeguarding of international rail Green; Station and offering major retail and office services from East Kent through the • Delivery of new signalling to safeguard international services from Ashford. development; upgrading of signalling at Ashford • Elwick Place, a mixed use retail, office and International station. In addition, we seek £10 million in Local Growth Fund Skills Capital funding for Ashford residential development; International College in 2015/16, matched with additional funding from Ashford Borough Council. • Ashford International College, a new further education campus, which is a As part of our integrated approach to Ashford’s development, we will commit at least £35 priority for skills capital investment in million in funding from Ashford Borough Council and Kent County Council to unlock the eight 2015/16 strategic projects identified as essential to the town’s growth. • The expansion of the Ashford Designer Outlet Centre, providing a higher quality retail offer adjacent to Ashford Canterbury International Station; 4.195 4.197 Canterbury is East Kent’s leading centre for Development of a new relief road on the high-value employment, centred around the A28 at Sturry would enable almost 4,800 city’s four universities. Proposals are being new homes to be built and 1,800 jobs to developed for potential SEFUND investment be created in new business space north in additional incubator facilities, building on of Canterbury in so doing also improving the success of the Canterbury Innovation journey times along East Kent’s A28 corridor Centre which has over 60 science and from Thanet through Canterbury to Ashford. technology businesses already in place. 4.198 4.196 In addition provision of a new slip road Wider development in Canterbury district onto the A2 at Wincheap would support is severely constrained by significant traffic the delivery of 50,000 m2 of new retail and congestion particularly along the A28 leisure floorspace generating 1,400 new corridor, which is exacerbated by limited jobs thereby supporting the city’s wider access from the city to the A2 road and economic growth and underlining its status several railway level crossings. as an important regional retail hub.
156 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 157 Dover Discovery Park/ Manston
4.199 School for 4.203 The Port of Dover is of national significance. Discovery Park is already England’s most successful Enterprise Zone, with over 1,300 jobs secured Already the largest passenger port in Europe, Creative on the site since Enterprise Zone status was granted in 2011, a Local Development Order in place Dover is associated with a major integrated and proposals being brought forward for residential and commercial development on the site
regeneration programme, including the C AS E ST U DY alongside its scientific research and development core. development of Terminal 2 and associated Start-ups 4.204 infrastructure improvements, linked with new marina and leisure facilities and mixed use However, the area around Discovery Park has been faced with a further challenge following the developments at Dover Waterfront and the The School for Creative Start-ups is an decision of the owners of Manston Airport to enter into consultation on the future of the facility. town centre. As well as road infrastructure interactive support programme based Yet the area around Manston and Discovery Park contains extensive land suitable for residential and employment use, and is well connected by new infrastructure. improvements funded through our proposed in Folkestone and backing new start transport programme, there is potential businesses. Starting this year, it currently 4.205 for recyclable SEFUND investment to bring supports 86 start-ups from across the Through this Growth Deal, we will take a concerted approach to bringing forward growth at forward development. county. Manston and Discovery Park: 4.200 To the north of Dover, the development of Francesca Rowan joined the programme Whitfieldwill bring forward 5,750 new homes. with a theatre business, but quickly However, development is constrained by decided that she could make more of high infrastructure costs. The redevelopment her current interior design business. Since of the Duke of York roundabout and she has made the transition, she has improvements to the A256 will help to already secured an £80,000 contract accelerate delivery, as well as supporting an additional 500 homes at the Connaught with Goodnestone Park, a Stately Home Barracks development. in Kent. 4.201 All development at Dover – including the expansion of the Port – will also be supported by investment in the strategic road network through the bifurcation of the A2/M2 and A20/A20 transport corridors, which early investments in key junctions on the M2 and A2 in Thames Gateway Kent will be important in facilitating. Folkestone The Discovery Park and Manston Growth Deal 4.202 We will take forward a coordinated approach to the development of Discovery Park and Folkestone is developing as a major creative Manston. centre, backed by extensive private sector We will: investment in the Creative Quarter. Building on this, a major regeneration scheme at • Consider extending Enterprise Zone designation to Manston Business Park, Manston Airport Folkestone Seafront and Harbour will bring and the Richborough Corridor. We ask Government to permit Thanet District Council to retain forward up to 1,000 new homes and up 100% of business rate receipts within the Zone with no impact on their baseline, in order that to 10,000 sqm of commercial floorspace, discounts can be fully funded by receipts above the discount level. together with improvements to the beach • Allocate £3.5 million in Local Growth Fund finance to support commercial development at and seafront facilities – unlocking around Manston and Discovery Park. 300 jobs. Early work on the development • Support SEFUND investment in commercial and residential development. of SEFUND indicates that this could be facilitated with a total upfront infrastructure Alongside this, we seek Local Growth Fund transport investment in Thanet Parkway station as a investment of £5.1m. This investment would priority to reinforce the success of Discovery Park and support investment at Manston as well as de-risk the first phase of this scheme, in the Westwood Relief Strategy, eliminating a major bottleneck impacting on employment and and would accelerate the start of the commercial growth in Thanet Central Island. development onsite to 2015.
158 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 159 Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs Table 4 21: East Kent (HS1 East Kent Corridor) Transport Investments
4.206 such as Live Margate and No Use Empty Total The opening of Turner Contemporary in Start Full cost LGF funding Match Total jobs to intervene in the local housing market, Scheme End Date homes 2011 has had a major impact on Margate, Date (£m) requirement funding enabled alongside the coastal housing investment enabled generating over a million visitors. This has programme highlighted elsewhere in this Plan. M20 Junction driven the regeneration of the Old Town and 2015/16 2017/18 35.00 19.70 15.30 11000 9500 establishing Margate as a major cultural and 4.208 10a leisure destination, with a growing cluster A28 Chart Road We will invest £7.5 million in Local Growth 2015/16 2018/19 19.50 10.23 9.27 510 2848 of creative businesses supported by the Fund in to extend the Live Margate and No Ashford Regional Growth Fund-supported Success Use Empty programmes, offering loans to Ashford public 2017/18 2018/19 3.00 3.00 0.00 90 502 programme. New commercial interest in individuals to restore homes previously used transport hotel and leisure developments in Margate for multiple occupancy to single home Ashford Spurs are building on the town’s unique location ownership. At the same time, we will discuss 2018/19 2018/19 1.50 0.75 0.75 71 350 signalling and heritage, and our proposed transport with Government the potential for further Sturry Link Road investments, including a series key junction powers to close down poor quality housing 2017/18 2019/20 28.60 5.90 22.70 1700 4220 improvements in central Margate, will help to stock that puts residents at risk – reducing Canterbury relieve congestion as well as supporting new the benefit trap by capping placements of A28 Sturry housing growth. vulnerable families in designated ‘no go’ Integrated 2015/16 2015/16 0.50 0.25 0.25 110 300 4.207 areas, restricting housing benefit payments transport to sub-standard landlords, and investing in package However, a number of key sites in Thanet housing renewal. remain vacant, due to an unbalanced local A2/A28 off slip housing market which tends to reinforce a and link road 2017/18 2018/19 12.00 2.00 10.00 760 500 concentration of high benefit dependency. Canterbury We must build on partnership initiatives Dover Bus 2017/18 2019/20 6.00 2.00 4.00 250 3260 Rapid Transit Dover Waterfront links 2015/16 2016/17 30.00 10.00 20.00 1685 500 to town centre North Deal 2015/16 2015/16 1.50 0.75 0.75 150 150 improvements Duke of York rbt and structural 2015/16 2019/20 5.50 5.00 0.50 250 2660 maintenance Newingreen Junction 2016/17 2017/18 0.70 0.41 0.29 600 450 Improvements, Shepway Cheriton High 2018/19 2018/19 0.57 0.30 0.27 120 1200 Street/ A20 Folkestone 2015/16 2015/16 0.50 0.50 0.00 300 1000 Seafront Margate junction 2018/19 2019/20 10.00 6.50 3.50 1900 5885 improvements Westwood Relief Strategy, 2016/17 2017/18 9.00 7.00 2.00 3500 1994 Thanet East Kent LSTF 2015/16 2020/21 16.14 9.78 6.36 1712 2260 Thanet Parkway 2015/16 2017/18 14.00 10.00 4.00 5000 2000
Total 194.01 94.07 99.94 29,708 39,579
160 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 161 Table 4 22: East Kent (HS1 East Kent Corridor) SEFUND Investments Table 4 23: East Kent (HS1 East Kent Corridor) Skills Capital Investments
Total LGF funding Match Start Full cost LGF funding Match Total Jobs Scheme Start Date End Date Full cost (£m) Scheme End Date homes requirement funding Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled Ashford International 2015/16 2016/17 25.00 9.50 15.50 Ashford Town 2015/16 2017/18 50.00 2.00 48.00 4200 College Centre Thanet Chilmington 2018/19 2030/31 200.00 3.00 197.00 2400 vocational 2016/17 2019/20 2.00 1.00 1.00 Garden City provision Canterbury Dover City Centre/ 2019/20 2020/21 100.00 2.00 98.00 1000 vocational 2016/17 2018/19 12.00 5.00 7.00 Wincheap provision University of 2016/17 2020/21 10.00 1.00 9.00 200 Folkestone FE Kent 2016/17 2017/18 15.00 5.00 10.00 provision Canterbury 2018/19 2018/19 2.50 0.50 2.00 50 Christ Church Total 54.00 20.50 33.50 Discovery Park 2016/17 2020/21 100.00 1.50 98.50 2000 500 Dover 2016/17 2019/20 100.00 2.00 98.00 400 Waterfront Folkestone 2015/16 2018/19 100.00 5.20 94.80 1000 Places for Growth: Seafront Manston Maidstone Business Park/ 2015/16 2018/19 50.00 2.00 48.00 500 500 Eurokent 4.209 Rendezvous, Maidstone is Kent’s county town, a major Margate 2015/16 2015/16 15.00 1.00 14.00 80 20 economic centre for North, East and West Kent located at the heart of the M20 corridor. Live Margate/ With a buoyant economy, Maidstone has Housing strong ambitions for growth, with 9,400 new 2015/16 2021/22 30.00 5.00 25.00 500 Market homes planned between 2011 and 2021. Renewal Opportunities Challenges Total 757.50 25.20 732.30 8,030 5,320 • Central location with good road transport • Relatively weak rail connectivity. Services connections. Maidstone’s position at the on the Maidstone East to Victoria line centre of the county adjacent to the M20 remain slow and services accessing High means that developer interest and viability Speed One are limited. is high. • High levels of congestion, especially in • Diverse sector base. With established the town centre. While this presents an strengths in business services, Maidstone obstacle to future growth, it also impacts is increasingly developing a presence on existing businesses. in media-related activity and health technology. • Significant opportunities for growth, especially at M20 Junction 7, which includes Eclipse Business Park and the Maidstone Medical Campus, as well as in the town centre.
162 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 163 Solutions: Unlocking Table 4 25: Maidstone (M20 Corridor) SEFUND Investments
g row t h Total Total Start Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme End Date jobs homes Date (£m) requirement funding A transport infrastructure package for Bringing forward economic opportunity enabled enabled growth 4.212 Maidstone Medical 2016/17 2020/21 100.00 2.00 98.00 600 4.210 Junction 7 of the M20 is already seeing major Campus Maidstone’s future growth will require commercial expansion, with new finance and Maidstone East significant investment in transport business services employment at Eclipse Park 2016/17 2020/21 80.00 1.00 79.00 320 300 infrastructure, which is also vital to sustain and concentration of media and creative redevelopment the town’s current role as a major retail and industries at Maidstone Television Studios. This Wren Cross/ The 2016/17 2018/19 80.00 2.00 78.00 300 employment centre. In particular, all the will be accompanied by the establishment of Mall major arterial routes into Maidstone converge Maidstone Medical. Work on the Kent Institute at the Maidstone Gyratory Junction crossing of Medicine and Surgery, at the heart of the Total 260.00 5.00 255.00 920 600 the River Medway, imposing significant Medical Campus, is nearing completion and congestion and delay. A gyratory relief the Institute will open in April 2014. Potential scheme will help to overcome these severe investment via SEFUND could help to bring constraints and is a priority for support through forward the next phase of development, the Local Growth Fund from 2015/16. supporting initial infrastructure costs. 4.211 4.213 Rural Kent In addition, to support Maidstone’s wider In Maidstone Town Centre, there is a key growth (including significant growth opportunity for growth in the redevelopment The rural economy makes a disproportionately large contribution to Kent and Medway’s anticipated in the smaller rural towns within of the area surrounding Maidstone East economic growth, with around 36% of all jobs in Kent located in rural areas. A recognised key Maidstone’s hinterland), we propose a major Station. Currently providing a poor gateway sector for Kent and Medway Kent’s farming sector is increasingly knowledge and technology integrated transport package, including key to the town, there is developer interest in intensive, and Kent has a key centre of research excellence at East Malling Research. However, junction and road capacity improvements replacing outdated office blocks and car the rural business base involves a wide range of sectors, with relatively high levels of home- and enhanced public transport. parking with a new mixed-use extension working. of the town centre, which early public investment could help to unlock. Elsewhere in The emerging Kent Rural Delivery Framework highlights the priorities for the growth of rural Kent as: the town centre, opportunities to redevelop • Ensuring access to business critical infrastructure, including appropriate workspace and the retail core could bring forward further extending the reach of superfast broadband and mobile connectivity. This may include the housing growth. use of Local Growth Fund to support the extension of superfast broadband to the ‘final 9%’, matching investment from BDUK; • Optimising the take-up of new technologies by rural businesses; • Fostering a resilient and profitable land-based sector, including through continued diversification and the growth of agri-tech; and Table 4 24: Maidstone (M20 Corridor) Transport Investments • Supporting a culture of entrepreneurship
The recent allocation of over £15 million in funding from the European Agriculture Fund for Rural Total Total Start Full cost LGF funding Match Development (EAFRD) provides an opportunity to Kent and Medway to build on our success in Scheme End Date jobs homes Date (£m) requirement funding the two existing LEADER programmes to make more funding directly available to business and enabled enabled we will explore the potential for this over the coming weeks. Maidstone 2015/16 2016/17 5.70 4.56 1.14 2000 5049 Gyratory Bypass Maidstone sustainable 2015/16 2016/17 3.00 2.00 1.00 350 475 transport Maidstone Integrated 2015/16 2017/18 15.00 8.90 6.10 5000 4455 Transport Package
Total 23.70 15.46 8.24 7,350 9,979
164 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 165 Challenges 4.217 developments at Kings Hill near West Malling. Places for Growth: At the key North Farm development, a major Supporting research and growth • Locations for growth need careful scheme to widen the existing railway bridge West Kent selection. With much of West Kent covered will also help to unlock the potential of a 4.221 by metropolitan green belt, new sites major location for employment growth, linked West Kent has a leading facility at East 4.214 must be carefully planned and supported with additional investment in vocational Malling Research, specialising in crop and West Kent has a strong and resilient economy, by appropriate investment in transport further education. horticultural research and with aspirations to with a dynamic SME base, good connectivity infrastructure. There is scope to intensify a Tonbridge develop additional businesses premises. At and an excellent quality of life making it one number of key existing sites. Fort Halstead near Sevenoaks, there is also of the best places in the South East in which • Congestion is often high, especially in town 4.218 the opportunity to develop business space for research-focused businesses alongside a to start and grow a business. It is essential that centres such as Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells High congestion levels impact on the retained presence by QinetiQ, the defence we maintain West Kent’s success as a driving and Sevenoaks. Improvements in the road sustainability of Tonbridge town centre technology company. Potentially, projects at force in the South East economy. network have not kept pace with the rate and we seek funding for a coordinated EMR or Fort Halstead could come forward for of economic growth, particularly in relation congestion relief package. Outside of support via SEFUND. Opportunities to access to the motorway network and the proposed LGF transport funding, we the lack of capacity on rail services to will explore with the Environment Agency Improving connections for the longer • Growth in West Kent supports the wider London (especially on the Maidstone line the potential for the partial funding of term South East economy. Knowledge economy via West Malling). improvements to the Leigh Barrier flood 4.222 employment is higher than in other parts • Localised pockets of deprivation – often defences, given the need to protect of the county, and there is a diverse masked by impressions of general identified areas for growth at Tonbridge and Linking all of West Kent’s key growth locations SME base of 16,000 businesses with high affluence where targeted investment is Maidstone from future flooding incidents. – and maintaining the area’s long-term resilience – requires targeted transport potential for innovation and growth. required. Swanley Business start-up numbers are high and connections. West Kent will benefit from businesses survive longer and grow faster Solutions: Unlocking 4.219 the planned dualling of the A21 between here. Tonbridge and Pembury, supporting growth Adjacent to the M25, just 26 minutes by rail throughout the A21 corridor between London • There are significant sector strengths. The g row t h to London and close to the employment and Hastings: it is vital that the Highways software and electronic publishing sector opportunities coming forward in North Kent, 4.215 Agency progresses these improvements at in Tunbridge Wells is among the largest in a package of measures to improve Swanley the earliest opportunity. the South East, underpinning strengths in With a robust economy, relatively small would enable new homes and employment creative and media industries. Leisure and amounts of public investment can unlock space. There is emerging private sector 4.223 tourism is strong and growing. substantial private sector leverage. In West interest in bringing forward growth in the town In addition, improvements to the A228 • Demand for development is high and Kent, our focus for growth is on our major centre and southeast Swanley, including a at Colts Hill will be important in improving flagship developments are successful. town centres and business locations, with new business and enterprise hub. Investment connectivity between Tunbridge Wells, In particular, Kings Hill, built on a former public investment helping to rationalise and through SEFUND could help to unlock this Kings Hill and the major growth points airfield and now Kent’s leading business intensify existing sites and bring forward new growth, creating a long term change in the at Maidstone, and Local Growth Fund park with over 5,000 jobs, and there is sites for development. town’s prospects. investment is sought to secure this major further scope for growth at North Farm and Tunbridge Wells Kings Hill and Medway Valley scheme. In the longer term, access to Fort Halstead. the M25 from parts of West Kent is also • Connectivity is good, with proximity to the 4.216 4.220 constrained, requiring a potential assessment of the benefits and impacts of M25 junction M25 and planned improvements to the The thriving town centre of Royal Tunbridge In the eastern part of West Kent, there changes. A21 between Tonbridge and Pembury. Wells will see substantial housing growth is significant growth at Peters Village at London rail links are also good from and cultural-led investment which will drive Wouldham, which will deliver around 1,000 Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells, forward growth in tourism, media and the new homes. This will require additional and investment in rural broadband has creative industries. To support this growth, we investment at Junction 4 of the M20, for which important benefits for West Kent businesses. will implement a comprehensive package we seek partial LGF funding. Improvements of transport measures to tackle congestion to Junction 4 will also support the continued hotspots, including improvements to the A26 development of one of the South East’s and A264 approaches to Tunbridge Wells and most successful business park and residential measures to improve public transport.
166 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 167 Table 4 26: West Kent (A21 Corridor) Transport Investments Table 4 28: West Kent (A21 Corridor) SEFUND Investments
Total Total Start Full cost LGF funding Match LGF funding Match Scheme End Date Jobs homes Scheme Start Date End Date Full cost (£m) Date (£m) requirement funding requirement funding enabled enabled Tunbridge M20 Junction Wells 2015/16 2017/18 4.00 1.00 3.00 4 Eastern 2015/16 2015/16 4.44 2.19 2.25 1785 4068 vocational Overbridge provision Tonbridge Total 4.00 1.00 3.00 Town Centre 2015/16 2016/17 3.87 2.37 1.50 450 1000 Regeneration North Farm Relief Strategy, 2015/16 2021/22 10.50 8.50 2.00 555 440 Tunbridge Wells Tunbridge Wells 2015/16 2019/20 10.00 8.50 1.50 1160 725 P&R A228 Colts Hill 2016/17 2020/21 35.00 35.00 0.00 2000 1500 Relief Scheme A26 London Rd/ Speldhurst Rd/ Yew Tree 2015/16 2016/17 2.00 1.75 0.25 105 85 Rd Junction Improvement, Tunbridge Wells West Kent LSTF 2015/16 2020/21 9.05 4.89 4.16 405 443
Total 74.86 63.20 11.66 6,460 8,261
Table 4 27: West Kent (A21 Corridor) SEFUND Investments
Total Total Start Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme End Date Jobs homes Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled Swanley Town 2015/16 2018/19 50.00 1.00 49.00 500 60 Centre East Malling 2015/16 2017/18 5.00 0.50 4.50 100 Research Peter's Village 2016/17 2018/19 100.00 1.00 99.00 1000 Tunbridge Wells 2016/17 2018/19 20.00 1.00 19.00 500 town centre
Total 175.00 3.50 171.50 1,100 1,060
168 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 169 Growth without Gridlock 4.226 National corridors Infrastructure for It is vital our national corridors of the M2/A2, 4.225 M20 and High Speed 1 perform well. If they investment supporting are congested the detrimental impact to not G row t h Growth without Gridlock in Kent and only the national economy but to Kent and our growth areas Medway, the county’s transport strategy Medway is huge. Basically investment goes 4.224 sets out our priorities for future transport 4.228 elsewhere. Significant improvement to these For our key growth locations and corridors, investment, focused on the need for While major improvements to the strategic national corridors is therefore the cornerstone we have identified the transport interventions transformational change of national road and rail networks are our priority, we to our plan. We fully expect Government needed to unlock growth. Combined, our significance (such as a Lower Thames know there is much we need to do at the to fund these improvements. However, a transport programme will facilitate delivery Crossing) and local schemes needed to local level to make sure that our growth areas number of these schemes however are so of 141,000 jobs and 114,000 homes across unlock growth. Within our Growth Deal, we are delivered. Key to this are connections strategically important to our economy we Kent and Medway. However, our proposed have focused primarily on securing additional from the strategic road network that will allow are willing to put in an element of funding to transport investments will have strategic ‘local’ investment, set out in the previous us to “piggy-back” off the investment in the ensure they are brought forward as early as benefits as well as helping to unlock specific area and corridor sections, but it is essential strategic network to unlock our full growth possible. growth locations. that we also secure the resilience of our potential. These schemes connecting the strategic network: Key investments required are: national network to the local, will deliver • A2 Bean Junction (with a Local Growth 13,500 jobs and 10,000 homes: Fund requirement of £10 million • M2 Junction 5a and Link Road, supporting • A2 Ebbsfleet Junction (with a LGF Kent Science Park (with a LGF requirement requirement of £6 million) of £12 million) • M2 Junction 5 (with a LGF requirement of • M2 Junction 10a at Ashford (with a LGF £15 million) requirement of £19.7 million) • Operation Stack Lorry Park (with a LGF • A2/A28 off-slip and link road at Canterbury Our national corridors requirement of £10 million) (with a LGF requirement of £2 million).
4.227 In addition, further Highways Agency investment will be required at M2 Junction 7, the dualling of the A2 at Lydden, near Dover and and M2 Junction 3 to support the further development of Rochester Airport.
170 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 171 4.231 County-wide priorities for Local Growth Fund We have established a strong, long-term partnership with our leading business sectors, through a continuing series of sector roundtables. We have used our sector knowledge to focus on targeted 4.229 interventions where there are gaps in the market. Throughout this chapter, we have highlighted the key transport interventions for which we require Local Growth Fund investment to unlock sites for employment and housing. However, a number of schemes and programmes have impacts across Kent and Medway: Table 4.29: Kent and Medway-wide Local Growth Fund transport investments Kent and Medway's key sector opportunities
Total Total Start Full cost LGF funding Match Sectors Opportunities Scheme End Date jobs homes Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled 6,000 jobs. Concentrations of activity at Discovery Park Enterprise Zone and at Kent Science Park near Sustainable Life sciences access to Sittingbourne, with emerging opportunities at the new 2015/16 2020/21 1.20 0.90 0.30 140 education and Maidstone Medical Campus. employment 14,000 jobs; 85% sector growth over the past decade. Strategic Creative and media Strengths in software and digital media, especially in congestion 2015/16 2020/21 4.80 4.80 0.00 2003 2292 Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, and coastal East Kent. management 21,000 jobs in renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon reduction technologies – and underpinned by Kent Low carbon sustainable the designation of the Kent coast as a Centre for Offshore interventions 2015/16 2020/21 3.00 3.00 0.00 1335 1528 Renewable Engineering. supporting Comparative advantage in horticulture, accounting for growth over two thirds of national top fruit production. Research- Land-based Operation intensive growth opportunities, such as at East Malling Stack and Research. 2015/16 2017/18 20.00 10.00 10.00 1000 1500 overnight lorry 44,000 jobs, accounting for over 10% of Kent and Medway’s park GVA. Strong concentrations in Medway and Swale, with Manufacturing Additional major businesses such as BAE Systems and Delphi supporting Op Stack and a strong SME base. 2019/20 2020/21 18.00 15.00 3.00 928 1220 overnight lorry 36,000 jobs. Proximity to the London and South East market park and major developments in Kent and Medway support Construction growth in the sector, with new opportunities in sustainable Total 47.00 33.70 13.30 5,406 6,540 construction technologies. 64,000 jobs. Strong tourism product offer in coastal, historic and rural Kent, which will be reinforced by major investment Tourism and leisure in new attractions, including the proposed Paramount Sectors for growth development in North Kent. Kent has one of the UK’s largest university clusters at 4.230 Canterbury, as well as a large and growing university We must ensure that we have a positive environment for business expansion – where businesses Higher education presence at Medway, with increasingly strong links with with the appetite for growth can secure the finance, the land, the people and the ideas to create local business. jobs and prosperity and our key sectors have strong prospects for growth Opportunities
• We have an entrepreneurial economy, driven by thousands of small and medium-sized businesses. Of 63,650 businesses across the county, 89% employ fewer than ten people. • We have a growing knowledge economy. The number of people employed in the knowledge economy remains relatively small – reflecting Kent and Medway’s traditional industrial legacy. But over the past 15 years, it has grown at almost twice the national rate of growth. • We are benefiting from improved infrastructure. High Speed One has transformed the travelling time between London and parts of Kent. Previously distant and peripheral, it is now quicker to reach Canary Wharf from Ebbsfleet than it is from Kensington.
172 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 173 Challenges • Support increased growth through trade 4.235 4.239 and investment; and We will create a new programme, Finance We will establish a Kent and Medway Growth • Access to finance continues to be a Finance for Innovation for Innovation, focused on providing loan Hub, competitively tendered by Kent and constraint. Bank lending is still lower than and equity finance to SMEs seeking to invest Medway Economic Partnership and providing it was before the credit crunch, although 4.233 in new products, services and processes a central, up-to-date web-based portal to there are recent signs of improvement. Kent and Medway’s existing access to with the ability grow and create sustainable business support and financial assistance There are also well-evidenced gaps in the finance programmes are highly successful employment. It will operate across Kent and offered at local, county and national level, availability of equity finance on viable in supporting businesses with the appetite Medway, with a focus on investment in our supplemented with start-up and generic terms, especially for start-ups and younger to grow. So far, TIGER and Expansion East priority growth sectors. In particular, it will business advice. The Growth Hub will also act micro businesses with innovative – but Kent – both of which are funded through the make a long term difference by investing as the key point for accessing Finance for therefore risky – propositions. Regional Growth Fund – have created 2,250 in activities most likely to deliver added Innovation and the county’s existing access value and increase knowledge economy to finance programmes. • The business environment is becoming jobs, and will create over 8,000 by the time all employment. increasingly competitive. We must the initial investment has been utilised. With 4.240 an average cost per job of around £12,000, become increasingly productive, 4.236 We seek £6 million over six years from the they are delivering amongst the best value generating more output with fewer human While Finance for Innovation will respond to Local Growth Fund in revenue grant to for money of any RGF-funded programmes in resource inputs - making it more important the clear need for access to finance where support the Kent and Medway Growth Hub, England. that those companies with the ability to this will unlock private investment, it must be which we will match in direct investment grow and create jobs and wealth are 4.234 at the heart of a wider innovation support in business support products, including the able to access the finance and market However, all Kent and Medway’s existing system. There is much already available – so High Growth Kent service for businesses with intelligence they need. access to finance support will be exhausted we will not duplicate the programmes of the growth potential and local start-up services • Environmental resilience is an increasingly by 2015/16, and although TIGER and Technology Strategy Board or initiatives such and the Low Carbon Kent programme. We significant issue. Some parts of the Expansion East Kent money is recyclable, as Growth Accelerator. However, Growth will also expand this activity through the county’s economy (especially parts of the repayments will be limited until about Accelerator, locally-funded programmes ERDF opt-in to Growth Accelerator and manufacturing and land-based sectors) 2017/18. So there will be a gap when there such as High Growth Kent, the support to Manufacturing Advisory Service support. will be affected longer term by rising will be no funds available to lend. business offered by our universities and our environmental legislation and resource network of innovation centres will be critical Trade and investment costs which will need to be managed and in developing applications to Finance for 4.241 mitigated if Kent and Medway is to remain Innovation and ensuring that the businesses Next to the markets of continental Europe competitive, resource efficient and a we back receive a wide range of additional and the rest of the UK, Kent and Medway place for green businesses to invest. support. So we will develop a Kent and Expansion East is well-placed to benefit from international • Employers often have challenges in Medway Innovation Concordat, signed by all innovation support organisations trade. However, we know that Kent accessing the skills they need. In particular, companies are less likely to export than firms difficulties in securing staff with the right Ke nt setting out how we will work together and add substantial local value to national elsewhere in the South East. Through Kent science, technology and engineering skills With £35 million secured from the International Business, Kent County Council, are often highlighted – and this is likely programmes and initiatives. Government’s Regional Growth Fund, local business support providers and UK to become an increasingly significant 4.237 Trade and Investment (UKTI) are helping Kent challenge as the labour market tightens. Expansion East Kent is already making a major difference to the East Kent To make Finance for Innovation work, we and Medway firms to access new markets. We will expand this activity, linked with the economy. seek £28 million capital investment from Solutions the Local Growth Fund over six years, to be development of the county’s key growth Creabilis SA is a clinical stage European recycled locally. All Finance for Innovation sectors, through the ERDF ‘opt-in’ to UKTI biotechnology company developing investments will be made either as loans of up support. 4.232 C AS E ST U DY to 50% of project cost, or as equity investment To respond to the opportunities and novel treatments for dermatological 4.242 on equal terms with a private investor. We will challenges faced by business, we will put in and inflammatory diseases. With funding therefore secure private sector leverage of at Building on the success of Locate in Kent place three major solutions as part of our of £840,000 approved from Expansion least £30 million. we will increase our promotion of Kent and sector-focused Growth Deal. We will: East Kent, it will create 50 new jobs Medway, recognising the opportunities at • Unlock private finance and bridge the in East Kent in research and product The Kent and Medway Growth Hub Ebbsfleet, Discovery Park and elsewhere. innovation funding gap by delivering a £28 development. We seek designation of Kent as a UK inward million Finance for Innovation programme, 4.238 investment gateway, with a commitment linked with an integrated approach to Finance for Innovation and the Kent and from UKTI to match local support for inward innovation and growth; Medway Innovation Concordat will help investment where it is focused around sectors • Simplify and streamline the business to focus the support available for those in which the county has national strengths. support offer – creating a new Kent and Expansion East Kent businesses with innovative capacity and Medway Growth Hub at the heart of a in our priority growth sectors. But the better coordinated network; wider business support landscape is often apply now complicated and confusing. 0% loan 174 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 175 Table 4 30: Kent & Medway Investment: Business growth and productivity The Guild Model: Helping employers to routes for young people, matching them participate in informing skills provision to jobs based on their capabilities and skills, Full cost LGF funding Match Total Jobs using the Kent Choices4u platform and linked Scheme Start Date End Date (£m) requirement funding enabled 4.245 with our priority growth sectors. Finance for We will create an infrastructure that enables 4.250 2015/16 2020/21 80.00 28.00 52.00 8254 employers to ensure that provision meets their Innovation We will explore new models of engagement needs – helping them to shape the content that bring young people and employers Kent and of courses in partnership with colleges and together. Building on the work of Youth Medway 2014/15 2020/21 9.00 6.00 3.00 1000 other providers. Growth Hub Employment Zones, this could include short, 4.246 sharp intervention programmes for 16-24 year Total 89.00 34.00 55.00 9,254 We will develop a ‘Guild’ model, following olds, getting young people ready for the job our sector-led approach. For each priority market and enabling them to secure a job than there are young people to fill them, with training. The Growth Deal/ because many applicants do not have the sector, we will establish a Guild. Employers vocational or work-ready skills to take up and providers within the Guild would work available opportunities. together to give employers greater ownership Skills for growth of planning and delivery of information, • This will get worse as the labour market advice and guidance for their sector. We tightens. Over time, there will be fewer 4.243 have already established a Guild for the working age people as a proportion of the Growth in key sectors and increasing hospitality and tourism sector, and we will population, leading to pressure to increase employment opportunities demand a seek to develop the model for our other productivity. motivated, skilled and creative workforce. priority sectors. Kent Choices4u • Parts of Kent and Medway still experience So we must be innovative, flexible and 4.247 Kentchoices4u.com is Kent’s online responsive – engaging employers in designing concentrated worklessness. Despite falling The Guild model is an innovative - and low applications and careers portal. Year 11s approaches to skills and the information, unemployment, access to the labour cost - way of delivering better employer advice and guidance that supports it. market is low in places, especially in use the system to apply for courses and it coastal and Thames Gateway Kent and engagement with the skills system. As it contains information about careers and Opportunities especially among 18-24 year olds. proves its value in demonstrating how local post 16 options. employers can articulate their skills demands • There is a mismatch between employment The site is increasingly popular, with over • We have major opportunities for new opportunities and perceptions. In a and translate them into provision, we believe that it could have value as a national pilot. 170,000 visits to the site, and over 11,000 employment. Growth is forecast in key demand-led system, we must ensure that young people making an application demand is well-informed. But frequently, We therefore ask the Government to work sectors, major new developments offer between September 2012 and May prospects for large-scale job creation and perceptions of many sector opportunities with us in evaluating the early success of the
2013. The site is the largest and most C AS E ST U DY opportunities in London – in commuting are outdated and inaccurate. Guild model. used of its type in the country. distance for much of the county – are set • Employers do not always have the time Improved information, advice and to increase. to engage. We need to strengthen the guidance We are piloting a fully interactive system • Employment levels are rising. With greater employer voice in the skills system. But to bring together web and computer- flexibility, the labour market should be able in a local economy dominated by small 4.248 based resources and target them at to respond as employment opportunities and micro businesses, there is a limit to the We will implement a comprehensive young people. This will also contain a develop. amount of time employers can give to programme to enhance the information, CV builder, interactive skills development • Our workforce is becoming better skilled. informing the skills system. advice and guidance (IAG) activities of portfolios and employability skills support. Workforce skills still lag behind the national schools, colleges, training providers and Using the system, we will bring students Solutions the National Careers Service whilst bringing average, but long term improvement is and companies together. Companies fairly consistent. together young people and employers 4.244 more effectively. This will include a significant will be able to place their employment/ • School attainment levels are improving. training offer within the site alongside GCSE results have improved consistently As part of our Growth Deal, we will put in expansion of the Kent Choices4u online resources to help young people to over the past decade, but Kent and place measures to create a better-informed portal, providing high quality IAG and labour Medway now outperform England as a skills market by: market information. develop the skills and experiences they need to progress into employment whole • Enabling employers to better participate in Stronger brokerage services informing skills provision; Challenges • Delivering improved information, advice 4.249 and guidance; We will expand the existing Kent Employment • Employers report skills shortages. Employers • Developing brokerage and recruitment Programme and Employ Medway into say that they face difficulties in recruiting services to help jobseekers and employers brokerage models, which will include a job people with the right skills. Linked with this, access work; matching service. This service will create there are more apprenticeship vacancies • Making it easier for young people to tailored development plans and progression access work and training a guide to your future
176 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 177 Making it easier for young people to 4.254 4.259 Democratic accountability access work and training As set out in the area sections above, in The KMEP Board consists of 11 business 2015/16, Kent and Medway Economic representatives, 8 local authority leaders, and 4.262 4.251 Partnership will prioritise: 1 representative from each of higher and Alongside Kent and Medway Economic We will seek to establish a Workforce • As part of the Ashford Growth Package, further education. Partnership, Kent Council Leaders provides Response Fund, to be used flexibly to remove the development of the new Ashford 4.260 a forum for full democratic partnership barriers for individuals, employers and International College. This will provide a accountability, bringing together the leaders The KMEP is an informal partnership. To providers to boost skills, employment and job new further education college at the heart of all 14 local authorities across Kent and ensure full accountability for delivery, Kent creation, building on Medway’s SUCCESS of Ashford, with a requirement of £9.5 Medway. County Council and Medway Council share programme. million the accountable body role, depending on 4.252 • Expansion of existing facilities at Swale Skills the programme or project. Both authorities Project delivery Centre in Sittingbourne, with a combined Employers, providers and students have also have long experience of maintaining 4.263 told us that high travel costs remain a barrier requirement of £1 million accountability for Government-funded, Kent County Council and Medway Council to work and learning. We ask Government to partnership-managed programmes. 4.255 have extensive experience and an excellent consider the extension of the reduced cost Over the next six years, we will ensure track record in delivering major transport travel by public transport that is currently Business voice that funding is also prioritised for Ebbsfleet schemes. Most recently, examples include available to young people under the age of Garden City as part of the integrated the £87 million East Kent Access road scheme, 16 to those aged between 16 and 19. 4.261 growth package for Ebbsfleet-Swanscombe completed in 2012 and opening up access Skills Capital investment – focusing on the wide range of skills that Kent and Medway Economic Partnership to Discovery Park, Manston Business Park and will be required as a result of the proposed builds on an excellent track record of wider opportunities in Thanet and Dover. Both 4.253 Paramount development. partnership between the business and local highways authorities have wide experience in government. Kent and Medway’s Business The Local Growth Fund includes an allocation managing complex and substantial projects 4.256 Advisory Board provides a business-led of £330 million in 2015/16 for capital in conjunction with developers and other The need for further education provision forum, with membership drawn from all key investment in the further and vocational key government agencies – delivering on in Sittingbourne – the largest town in Kent sectors of the economy, with links into local education estate. As part of our Growth Deal, budget and on time. Kent and Medway without FE provision – will also need to be partnerships. This is supported by our sector- we have considered our priorities for this Economic Partnership also contains several addressed, as will requirements at Folkestone, focused partnerships and bodies, such as investment in Kent and Medway. business members with practical and Dover and Tunbridge Wells. Kent Developers’ Group, Visit Kent and Kent senior experience in the transport industry, Rural Board. Table 4 31: Kent & Medway Investment: Skills and employment revenue providing strong commercial input alongside democratic accountability. LGF funding Match Scheme Start Date End Date Full cost (£m) 4.264 requirement funding We also have extensive experience in and Enhanced capacity to deliver business growth. We are IAG and 2015/16 2020/21 5.00 1.50 3.50 currently managing £55 million in Regional employability Growth Fund investment – delivering Sector Guild among the country’s most successful RGF 2015/16 2020/21 0.60 0.60 0.00 Development programmes, on track to help create over Employability 10,000 jobs. We are managing the £40 million 2015/16 2020/21 2.40 2.40 0.00 Programmes Broadband Delivery UK programme for Kent and Medway, one of the first in the UK to Total 8.00 4.50 3.50 begin rolling out delivery.
Making it happen Kent and Medway Table 4 32: Kent Summary Kent and Full cost (£m) LGF funding Match Total Jobs Total Homes Economic Partnership Medway requirement Funding enabled enabled 4.257 In Kent and Medway, we have a strong track 4.258 Transport 709.51 359.59 349.92 140,419 114,584 record of practical delivery, underpinned by Within the overall context of the LEP’s SEFUND 2,628.50 74.20 2554.30 15,720 13,800 a long track record of excellent partnership Strategic Economic Plan, the Kent and Productivity 89.00 34.00 55.00 9,254 0 working between business and local Medway Economic Partnership will be Skills 87.00 33.75 53.25 0 0 government. responsible for the delivery of the objectives set out in this Growth Plan. Total 3,514.01 501.54 3,012.47 165,393 128,384
178 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 179 Thames Gateway South Essex Growth Deal
Canvey Gateway Fairglen Junction Town Centre & Homes Improvements
A130 Pinch Point Improved A129 Pinch Point Access to Canvey A127 Route Management Basildon Integrated Strategy Length of A127 Transport Area Wide Projects Rochford Pinchpoint Rochford JAAP Infrastructure TGSE Network Thurrock LSTF Craylands Measures to Contribute to JAAP And Housing Delivery Cycling Network Improvements Thurrock Integrated Transport Programme Basildon Town TGSE Network Southend LSTF Centre TGSE Network Essex LSTF
Thames Enterprise Park Green Technology Centre Hub
London Gateway Public JAAP Airport Sustainability Transport Access and Access Package Improvements Academy for Skills Logistics A127 The Thames Gateway Rochford JAAP Development Of Saxon Lakeside Transport, Public Basildon London Business Park At Southend Airport Realm and Public Transport A127 Southend South Essex Economy Airport JAAP A127 Bell Junction 4.265 M25 Junction 30/31 London Southend-on-Sea Essential Bridge & Highways Thames Gateway South Essex (TGSE) is part
M25 Maintenance Purfleet Centre, Town Centre A13 of the Thames Gateway; a national priority TV Studio, Rail Station Canvey Southend Central Area Growth area for growth and regeneration. In his Stanford- Island Hub & Property Interventions Le-Hope report ‘No Stone Unturned’ Lord Heseltine London Southend & Rochford JAAP Package: describes the development of the Thames Gateway Southend Central Area Transport & Chafford Site Infrastructure, Skills & Business Public Realm to Stimulate Regeneration Hundred Port Support at the Saxon Business park Gateway ‘as crucial to UK competitiveness’. Lakeside Transport Scheme Purfleet HS1 Phases 1-3c Grays Supporting Growth Area with Sustainable 4.266 JAAP A127 & Kent Elms Junction Transport & Mobility Measures Tilbury Bordering London to the west, TGSE stretches Grays Rail Station Key Grays to Port of A13 Corridor along the north bank of the Thames, through Public Realm & Housing Tilbury Package Upminster Rail SEFUND Thurrock, Basildon and Castle Point to Southend-on-Sea and Rochford in the east. It Tilbury London Gateway Stanford-Le-Hope Transport Improvements Housing Development TransportSEFUND is already home to over two thirds of a million people, 54,300 businesses and a workforce Grays Transport Schemes Phases 1-3 Third Lower National Highways of over 400,000 that generates £10bn GVA Thames Crossing And Rail per annum. TGSE’s excellent port and airport connectivity make it a key strategic gateway for London and the UK, enabling access to markets in Europe and across the world. With a mature and growing business environment, it contains, in Thurrock, one of the largest port clusters in the UK, in Basildon one of the largest business agglomerations in the East of England and in Southend the only expanding airport in the south east.
Map showing the main locations for growth, jobs growth and housing growth
180 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 181 4.267 4.270 4.274 TGSE has already seen considerable growth Our approach, detailed below, looks to build With the right investment, we have the opportunity to directly create 4,045 jobs and 3,340 new and investment and has ambition for more. on our existing strengths and make the most homes by 2021 and facilitate 43,610 jobs and 11,087 homes in this corridor through our proposed TGSE local authorities, working in close of a unique combination of opportunities to transport schemes. collaboration with business, are driving deliver more than some 45,000 homes and The table below illustrates the transport components of our growth programme in the A13 growth through direct investment and 52,000 jobs. Corridor. supportive policy. 4.271 Table 4.33: TGSE A13 Corridor Transport Investments 4.268 TGSE has two major growth corridors: the TGSE authorities are committed to using A13 and the A127 which are mirrored by Start Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme End Date Jobs Homes innovative measures to harness that growth two rail lines - the London Liverpool Street Date (£m) requirement funding to build the TGSE economy, address local to Southend line and the Essex Thameside inequalities and maximise local opportunities Route running from London Fenchurch Street Access to Canvey for the area’s residents. Southend’s work in to Tilbury and Southend. These corridors and A129 Woodmans 2018/19 2020/21 8.50 7.00 1.50 950 180 recently agreeing a City Deal and efforts to enable commuter journeys and business Junction facilitate the Anglia Ruskin MedTech Campus, supply chains within TGSE and between London Gateway / 2014/15 2019/20 12.05 7.50 4.55 4400 700 Thurrock’s development of a wholly owned TGSE and London. They support TGSE as a Stanford-le-hope housing company together with its support for functional economic area stretching into Grays Town Centre 2014/15 2019/20 21.54 16.40 5.14 2000 2607 the Creative and Cultural Industries at High East and Central London supporting over Thurrock Integrated House Production Park and Basildon’s work 69,000 daily commuter journeys. The vast 2014/15 2018/19 6.17 2.00 4.17 0 0 Transport pacakage with Thurrock on developing an NNDR pool majority of the area’s potential £4.3bn of with London neighbours demonstrates a keen private sector enabled growth is at key Thurrock desire to use the freedoms and flexibilities locations along these corridors. Cycling Network 2014/15 2018/19 6.13 5.00 1.13 0 0 being afforded through the localism agenda improvements to deliver more economic growth faster. The A13 Corridor Thurrock Lakeside 2014/15 2019/20 22.39 13.00 9.39 1000 1100 4.269 Thurrock Rail 4.272 2014/15 2020/21 24.00 12.00 12.00 16,580 4,200 Package TGSE has identified and is already supporting Bordering London to the west, the A13 a number of priority sectors which, with corridor links the key port infrastructure Total 100.78 62.90 37.88 43,610 11,087 the right public sector support, have the of Tilbury and London Gateway with the potential to deliver disproportionate levels of capital. The A13 corridor is the largest single growth both in terms of simple job numbers growth opportunity in the SE LEP area and and GVA. These sectors are: already benefits from major planned and • Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering committed private investments at London • Transport and Logistics Gateway (£1.5bn), Thames Enterprise Park • Environmental Technologies and Energy (£1bn), Lakeside (£1bn), Purfleet (£600m) and L.G. Networks Canvey Gateway (£110m). • Digital, Cultural & Creative (London Gateway Networks Ltd) 4.273 Location: Thurrock Development is currently severely Industry: Telecommunications constrained by the limited capacity of the strategic road network, particularly J30/31 Thurrock is truly at the centre of business of the M25 and the dual carriageway activity in the South East. Our corridor stretch of the A13. Whilst the M25 is likely of work covers West End to South End, to be addressed through the Department and Thurrock is right at the heart. With for Transport/Highways Agency, the A13 the development of two major docks is considered a local road requiring a
on our doorstep, improving transport C AS E ST U DY local solution. Recognising the strategic and communications, L.G.Networks is importance of the route. All SE LEP partners agree that Government should fund the committed to being part of the business £90m widening scheme to remove the growth in the area. Business grants barrier and unlock the full potential of the and loans available through different corridor, noting that if Government does not local government departments and fund the scheme it is likely to be beyond the bodies have helped us to invest more in means of the partnership. staffing and resources, and will no doubt continue to encourage this in the future.
182 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 183 4.275 Building on the economic strength of the 2014, the College will provide 2,000 post 16 and others will create the conditions to secure London Gateway is the most significant port, a long term regeneration programme in student places with plans for this to increase the ultimate delivery of more than 2,600 new UK port development in more than 20 Tilbury seeks to increase employment levels, to 3,000 in the medium term. Thurrock Council homes and 2,000 new jobs in Grays. years. Occupying a 1,500 acre site, the and improve housing mix and quality. The is already working up further proposals 4.281 Port opened last year and will ultimately sit programme will ultimately deliver 1,000 new for Grays, building on the momentum adjacent to Europe’s largest logistics park homes and 3,800 new jobs. created by the College. These include Investment at the Canvey Gateway will see (nearly 1m sq. metres of accommodation). the first development of 50 new homes the development of a £30m Business and 4.278 The first occupier (Marks and Spencer) was through Gloriana (Thurrock’s wholly owned Enterprise Park whilst the £60m development announced in 2013 with works expected The Lakeside Basin is Europe’s largest retail housing development company), the £3.5m of the existing Knightswick Centre and to commence in 2014. Together the Port complex with a catchment area spanning refurbishment of Grays Magistrates Court as surrounding land will be the cornerstone of a and logistics park will create more than much of the greater South East. Despite its a business centre supporting creation of 200 transformed Canvey Town Centre. In total it is 12,000 direct, permanent jobs and more obvious strengths Lakeside is constrained new jobs, the development of £15m proposals anticipated that this will support the delivery than 20,000 indirect jobs. Funded entirely by the access into the basin, physical for the reuse of the State Cinema and work of 1,500 new homes and 1,100 new jobs.4.282 by the private sector, the site is supported connectivity within the basin and the quality with Network Rail to redevelop Grays rail by the country’s largest Local Development of the public realm which all provide barriers station. It is anticipated that these measures Order, developed by Thurrock Council to to further planned investment. Work with give confidence to occupiers to invest. The landowners, operators and occupiers has upgrading of public transport links to the resulted in the development of ambitious We have identified the following potential investment opportunities in the A13 corridor. We are site from Stanford-le-Hope and a proposed proposals to expand and diversify the basin requesting £24.3m via SEFUND to enable this. to provide more retail floorspace alongside logistics academy will provide local people Table 4.34: TGSE A13 Corridor SEFUND Investments with the relevant skills infrastructure to access greatly enhanced leisure, commercial and the extensive employment opportunities. residential uses as part of a ‘regional’ Town Total Total Centre supporting 6,000 to 9,000 additional Start Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme End Date Jobs Homes 4.276 jobs and up to 3,000 new homes. The private Date (£m) requirement funding enabled enabled The Thames Enterprise Park, located on sector have responded positively with the site of the recently closed Petroplus planning consent already granted for a £143m Canvey 2015/16 2017/18 90.00 4.50 85.50 475 90 refinery at Coryton represents an exciting retail expansion to Intu’s (Lakeside) Shopping Thames 2014/15 2020/21 581.50 3.50 528.00 520 0 opportunity to create a 160ha Environmental Centre and a separate £100m leisure scheme. Enterprise Park Further applications are under discussion to Technologies and Energy Hub on the former Purfleet 2015/16 2023/24 372.50 7.50 365.00 1500 2500 refinery site alongside a new import/export deliver the first homes in the basin. and blending facility for oil products to serve Tilbury 2018/19 2019/20 181.40 4.50 132.90 1100 350 4.279 the London and south east economies. Grays Town 2015/16 2017/18 68.70 4.30 64.40 450 400 Ultimately expected to support more than A new Purfleet Centre on a 57ha brownfield Centre site will support the delivery of 2,500 new 2,000 new jobs, it is anticipated that the first Total 1,200.10 24.30 1,175.80 4,045 3,340 application for an 18ha bio jet fuel plant homes and more than 1,500 new jobs will be submitted in early 2014/15. Thurrock alongside a new school, local services and Council is working with the owners of the site facilities. At the heart of the proposals are to develop a package of inward investment exciting plans to create a 46,000 sq. metre support to attract firms in relevant sectors, film and television studio complex building and is brokering links with HEI’s to develop on the growth of the Creative and Cultural coordinate investment decisions and man- an innovation and skills programme for firms sector through the arrival of the Royal Opera The A127 Corridor age the asset. The majority of the growth House and National Skills Academy on the locating on the site. A critical component of 4.283 along the corridor is expected to be located this package is the designation of the site as High House Production Park site. The Purfleet in and around these three specific growth The A127 Corridor is vital to the economic an Enterprise Zone. Centre site is 55% owned by Thurrock Council locations which will see nationally significant growth of the SE LEP area, connecting Lon- which has secured outline planning consent growth in the advanced manufacturing and don to the manufacturing hub of Basildon, 4.277 and made the first resolutions to acquire medical technologies sectors. The Port of Tilbury, which covers an area the remaining land through Compulsory and to Rochford, Southend, London South- of more than 340ha and hosts some 130 Purchase. The Council selected a preferred end Airport and surrounding employment ar- 4.284 firms, acts as London’s major gateway for development partner in March 2014 and eas. The A127 itself carries a volume of traffic With the right investment this corridor there bulk products including cars, timber, grain, work is expected to start on site in 2015/16. comparable to a motorway in other parts of is the opportunity to directly enable the paper and containers. Thurrock Council has the country, but has significant capacity is- creation of 8,775 jobs and 1,451 new homes 4.280 historically supported a series of expansions sues which need to be addressed, particular- by 2021 and a further 48,927 jobs and 32,665 to the port, the most recent of which is As part of a programme of improvement ly around Basildon, London Southend Airport new homes over the longer term. currently underway and will see a 30ha in Grays Town Centre, Thurrock Council and the Southend Central Area. Southend expansion to the north. Works are due to is supporting South Essex College’s £48m Borough Council and Essex County Coun- commence shortly and, once complete, the relocation of its Thurrock Campus to the heart cil have agreed a joint “A127 Corridor for site will support more than 1,100 new jobs. of the High Street. Opening in September Growth” economic plan to identify, plan and
184 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 185 4.285 Accordingly, the authorities have jointly 4.290 The table below illustrates the transport components of our growth programme in the A127 commissioned a Joint Area Action Plan There is a clear opportunity to promote Corridor. (JAAP) which contains detailed proposals better connectivity across the area through for the development of London Southend improved utilisation of public transport Table 4.35: TGSE A127 Corridor Transport Investments Airport and surrounding area to deliver more infrastructure and services, enabling than 7,380 new jobs within 99,000sqm of people to gain access to employment, Start Full cost LGF funding Match commercial floorspace together with a high education and leisure opportunities using Scheme End Date Jobs Homes Date (£m) requirement funding end business park. The transport package public transport. The focus of the joint TGSE supporting the JAAP area includes site LSTF application, supported by revenue Southend and access, junction improvements and a range 2015/16 2017/18 20.68 17.68 3.00 7380 1768 measures, will be to continue the roll out Rochford JAAP of sustainable transport measures. of the bus real-time system and vehicle Southend and location, together with smart ticketing 4.289 Rochford Growth 2015/16 2019/20 7.00 7.00 0.00 5250 250 (linking with the Essex Thameside franchise) Area SCAAP Southend Central Area has already seen and associated marketing and promotion. significant public and private sector A127 Corridor 2018/19 2020/21 42.00 35.00 6.44 34,105 28,391 This supports all the growth points and investment including £25m of infrastructure corridors with access to public transport. This Basildon Integrated 2015/16 2020/21 13.02 9.00 4.02 1192 2246 and public realm works; the UK’s first joint joint initiative between the local authorities, Transport Package municipal-academic library (The Forum £27m); transport operators and businesses/ Total 67.18 54.66 12.52 12,630 2,018 and the University campus development. A education providers demonstrates strong package of transport and public realm works Total 682.70 69.24 13.46 48,927 32,655 cross boundary partnership working. designed to unlock potential development sites and accelerate delivery along Victoria 4.291 Avenue and in the Central Area are expected We have identified the following potential to contribute to the delivery of around investment opportunities in the A127 4.286 4.287 2,000 new homes and the creation of up to corridor. Local authorities are proposing Basildon has one of the largest concentrations The regeneration of Craylands housing 6,500 new jobs. Through the recently signed to invest £38.7m in these projects, and are of advanced manufacturing in the South of estate will contribute the overall growth Southend City Deal, Southend central will requesting £27m via SEFUND to enable this. England, playing host to major international in the A127 Enterprise corridor by lifting a host new employment space created by This will leverage £382.5m of private sector businesses such as Ford Motor Co, Selex large number of people out sub standard bringing an unused building back into use investment. ES, and New Holland Agriculture together housing and unemployment and create demonstrating local and central Government with a growing concentration of advanced substantial new opportunities for residents working in partnership to take a proactive engineering SMEs. It is well located to provide and particularly for the area’s untapped lead on regeneration to lever private sector a base for global companies seeking to build resources of young people without skills investment. links with the established concentration of or employment. Basildon is supported by advanced manufacturing and engineering improvements to the A13 corridor and businesses and a strong entrepreneurial Basildon Town Centre road configuration culture. Basildon has ambitious plans to works. Development at Nethermayne of redevelop the town centre and railway 725 homes will also support this location for station, including the relocation of South Essex growth. College’s Basildon Campus from Nethermayne to Basildon town centre which is expected 4.288 to bring a range of significant economic The A127 connects London Southend Airport impacts. It will grow student numbers from with the wider TGSE region and London. 1,000 to 2,000, extend and grow a range of London Southend Airport has undergone a vocational programmes strongly linked to the transformational regeneration programme skills businesses need and raise educational and is now an award-winning international and skills aspirations in the Town. Basildon is a gateway. The £130m development of the key contributor to the economic growth of airport has been privately funded by the the A127 corridor with over 6,500 businesses Stobart Group with support from Southend, and providing over 77,000 jobs making it the Rochford and Essex Councils and local primary location for employment growth businesses. The land on which the airport particularly in high value sectors such as and the surrounding commercial estates advanced manufacturing and green are located spans the political boundary technologies. between Southend and Rochford.
186 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 187 Table 4.36: TGSE A127 Corridor SEFUND Investments The Growth Hub will be funded by RGF and in green technologies and energy firms established early 2014. The Hub will act as a in partnership with the University of Total Total pilot for Growth Hubs/Gateways to Growth Northampton and South Essex College Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme Jobs Homes for SE LEP. It will be a replicable model which Date Date (£m) requirement funding • Gateway Canvey - development for enabled enabled can be rolled out across the LEP using the business and commercial uses including Southend and 2014/15 2020/21 251.54 8.75 242.79 3690 0 learning and experience from the City Deal a mix of serviced offices and workshops Rochford JAAP funded Hub to inform further development. as incubators for new and existing micro- businesses. Southend and 2014/15 2020/21 57.85 6.75 51.10 4200 200 4.296 • Innovation Warehouse in Basildon, which Rochford Growth In terms of specific support to start-ups and will support early stage, high growth, Area SCAAP small and medium enterprises, partners technology start-ups in an inspiring and Basildon 2015/15 2020/21 120.00 5.50 114.50 596 1123 in TGSE will look to build on the success creative environment. Town Centre of the ERDF funded Low Carbon Business Regeneration Programme by securing new ERDF resources • The Anglia Ruskin MedTech Campus in Package to deliver a three year programme. The offer Southend - providing one of the world’s largest health innovation spaces for Craylands 32.76 6.00 26.76 289 128 of the programme will be extended to offer companies of all sizes with on-site business Development Knowledge Transfer Partnerships to support R&D and the implementation of innovation support services. Total 462.15 27.00 435.15 8,775 1,451 projects in business. The footprint of this • Saxon Business Park - incorporating part successful programme can be extended of the Anglia Ruskin MedTech Campus Local Sustainable 4.294 to cover the whole of SE LEP if considered and providing business accommodation Partners in TGSE will look to provide a appropriate. with a focus on aviation, advanced Transport Fund (LSTF) coordinated package of business support engineering and servicing businesses to encourage and sustain new starts; to 4.297 connected to the airport. 4.292 promote business growth and attract To cater for expanding firms or those within • Museum of the Thames Estuary – A further £5m of LGF resource is proposed new investment; and to encourage R&D, the priority sectors, partners will aim to secure Development of a 30 mile cycleway for capital investments in local sustainable facilitating access to HE facilities where resources to extend the TIGER 0% loan fund, linking London with the Museum of the transport measures across the TGSE area as a appropriate. Existing and planned initiatives which currently runs in Thurrock, across the Thames Estuary in Southend. This will link whole. to promote innovation and enterprise will entire TGSE area. 0% loan funding will be and celebrate the fascinating cultural be backed by support for business that is available to enable innovation and creativity and heritage offer along the route and integrated, easy-to-access and tailored and support growth. increase cultural tourism. Productivity to their particular needs. TGSE partners 4.299 will work with major established businesses 4.298 4.293 and HE Institutions to join-up support and Beyond funding and advice we will support This collective package of support can It is imperative that TGSE’s businesses, a local delivery team will be established to investment in a number of specific assets create 1,000 new jobs across TGSE by 2021. irrespective of stage of their development, draw together resources and expertise from that will support innovative growth in our key It will support an estimated 270 new start- have access to high quality business support existing national and local programmes. This sectors, including: ups, provide support to 3,500 businesses that results directly in both improved will provide seamless access for businesses and 60 social enterprises. TGSE authorities • a Creative Sector Innovation Hub at the performance and employment growth. with a particular focus on priority sectors. are investing £5m locally, will be looking TGSE partners have a strong history of High House Production Park, which will to secure £10m through ERDF and request collaborating to provide services including 4.295 include a new Creative Arts College in £4m of match funding from LGF. This will be the ERDF funded Low Carbon Business The approach will be tested through the partnership with University of the Arts matched with £5m of private sector money. Programme. Alongside a strong generic Southend City Deal Growth Hub which will London. support offer for start-ups and small and have a reach across TGSE. The Growth • An Enterprise Zone at Thames Enterprise medium sized firms, TGSE authorities have Hub will provide businesses with a single Park supporting research and identified four priority sectors which they portal via which they can access both development and targeted investment are already supporting to secure high local and national support, such as MAS, value growth; Advanced Manufacturing Growth Accelerator and UKTI which will be & Engineering, Transport and Logistics, syndicated on the website. Local support Table 4.37: TGSE Productivity Investment Environmental Technologies and Energy and will include programmes offered through Digital, Cultural & Creative. the Chamber of Commerce, Higher and Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Jobs Scheme Further Education and ERDF funded activity. Date Date (£m) requirement funding enabled Innovation, Enterprise & 2015/16 2018/19 24.20 4.20 20.00 1000 Productivity
188 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 189 Skills • A higher-quality Information, Advice and generate economic value and create Olympus Key Guidance (IAG) offer that better meets sustainable and high-value employment 4.300 the needs of young people and promotes opportunities in the local area through The development of a strong growing career opportunities within TGSE growth a programme of work experience, Med economy, based on the availability of a high sectors. traineeships, apprenticeships, graduate quality skills base, will be directly dependent • A focused package of support and SME business support activity C AS E STMedical U DY devices Med Tech upon the nature of the education and (employability skills, specific training and and wider CPD training, events and networking opportunities. Southend-On-Sea learning offer locally. In the case of TGSE, job brokerage) targeting unemployed there is a need to develop a stronger and residents within priority locations and • An improved safety net to prevent young Olympus KeyMed, based at Southend-on- more effective education offer, particularly in developing routes into employment in people becoming and staying NEET Sea in Essex, is is one of the global business relation to further education and vocational entry level jobs in key sectors. including supported access to Career centres for Olympus endoscopy products education. Given the nature of the existing • A Higher Education Sector Network which advice with non-web base intensive and the exclusive distributor and service business base and the key industries that supports the skills and workforce needs of personal support in accessible locations. centre for the entire Olympus range of currently account for the largest share businesses in our priority sectors: Advanced • Skills for Transport and Logistics – working flexible and rigid endoscopes, accessories of employment in TGSE, these industries Manufacturing & Engineering, Transport closely with the FE and HE sectors to are likely to require vocationally-oriented and ancillary products in Great Britain. and Logistics, Environmental Technologies establish a centre of logistics excellence learning and training particularly at FE level Quality and innovation are at the heart and Energy and Digital, Cultural & Creative. for the benefit of the sector as a whole which is currently difficult to access locally. across SE LEP and the UK building upon of the company’s success, and Olympus • Creative & Cultural LEP-Wide Skills established expertise at Port of Tilbury and 4.301 Programme to raise employer ambitions, KeyMed recently won its third Queen’s the leading edge innovation of DP World. Award for the development of I-SPEED The skills and employment priorities in TGSE - a state of the art, high-speed video have been agreed by Local Authorities and camera, which is achieving significant businesses alike as: Table 4.38: TGSE Skills Revenue Investment market success through its portability, • Employer-led infrastructure and enhanced Total Total flexibility and functionality. Start End Full cost LGF funding Match Information, Advice and Guidance; Scheme Jobs Homes Date Date (£m) requirement funding “We are fortunate that Essex, with its • Apprenticeships and other vocational enabled enabled electronics and manufacturing heritage, provision; Education, Skills & 2015/16 2019/20 18.50 3.00 15.50 1700.00 0.00 has an established pool of high-tech • Up-skilling the workforce and supporting Inclusion skills so we are able to tap into the local SME growth; and, labour market. There is a good network • Active inclusion, transition to work, and 4.303 4.305 of training schools and colleges which reducing youth unemployment. Much of the above is being carried out in This programme will create an estimated we can use as part of our continuous staff 4.302 partnership with Essex County Council and 1,700 new jobs to 2021 via apprenticeships. development programme.” To achieve these priorities TGSE will support a others in North Kent and the wider Thames It will support tens of thousands of young Essex is also home to many of the range of initiatives to provide growth sectors Gateway, reflecting our common challenges people to access improved IAG services. It company’s component suppliers and with access to the workforce that they and priorities and the existing close will provide hands-on employment support business partners. As Mike Skelt, Head of require: relationships; physically and economically to over 2,000 of our residents who are long- term unemployed. We are investing £5.5m of Manufacturing - Medical, explains, • A dedicated on-line Marketplace Portal 4.304 for employers. The Portal will be a source funding from TGSE authorities, and requesting “Having key members of the supply chain To support the training and skills needs of £3m of LGF funding to match this investment. of information, a matching of needs our priotiy sectors there are other projects so close at hand means we can rely on This will unlock £5.5m of private sector to provision, and a forum for sharing currently being developed. These include: the daily deliveries and quick response labour market intelligence. This will allow leverage. times that are essential to our lean Providers, Local Authorities and other • A Creative Arts College at High House partners to rationalise, improve and better Production Park to be completed in Housing procurement policy.” 2016/17. co-ordinate their support for businesses 4.306 and young people. • TGSE Careers College to be completed in 2016/17. The provision of an appropriate housing • The Skills Investment Fund (SIF), which offer is critical to the aspiration to attract, • South Essex College Construction and will provide individual grants to firms develop and support an increasingly skilled Motor Vehicle Training Centre to be to support training actions where this workforce to drive TGSE’s priority sectors. completed in 2017/18. contributes to the achievement of wider TGSE authorities have a well-established strategic aims. The ESIF will also support history of seeking to facilitate housing larger interventions and provide incentives growth. With more than 10,000 homes to firms to take on NEET or unemployed consented through unimplemented planning individuals. permissions, the challenge in TGSE is not to identify new locations for housing growth, but
190 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 191 to create the necessary conditions to secure business programme, NNDR pooling and in Rainham. The new NNDR economic the private investment necessary to deliver Delivery the recently completed Southend City Deal. development partnership between Basildon, those schemes which have already been 4.311 Specific project delivery will generally sit with Thurrock, LB Havering and LB Barking & identified. The Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership individual local authorities, including Essex Dagenham and Thurrock’s membership (TGSEP) is a long established and successful County Council where appropriate, all of of the GLA chaired London Riverside 4.307 partnership that provides a business-led whom have a strong delivery track record. Partnership underline the strength of TGSE’s TGSE authorities are already working on a governance mechanism to oversee the joint working with London. 4.315 range of measures and taking on greater risk delivery of TGSE programmes and projects. 4.316 to secure the development of new homes. Alongside the Leaders of each of the local The TGSE programme reflects the key Chief among these is Thurrock Council’s authorities are business representatives from economic relationship the area has with TGSE also has strong economic partnerships work on asset disposal (buy now – pay each of the area business boards within TGSE the London LEP, in particular the vital road with the rest of Essex, through for example later) together with the establishment of which ensures the local voice of business, improvements necessary along the A13 the Med Tech initiative led by Anglia Ruskin Gloriana, a wholly owned development training and skills providers, and transport and A127 that connect London Gateway University across Southend, Chelmsford and company, which will develop more than operators is heard and acted upon. Port and London Southend Airport to the Harlow and with North Kent through the 1,000 new homes on Council owned land, strategic road network around and into TIGER programme offering loans to small and the commitment of £70m in land assets 4.312 the capital. Important sector based links and growing businesses in Thurrock. We to a partnership with the private sector to TGSEP works strongly in collaboration with its have also been made through the creative will continue to build on these successful secure the development of Purfleet Centre, partners. Through the Greater Essex Business industries sector and High House Production partnerships. providing more than 2,500 new homes. Board, three business members of TGSEP Park’s work with the University of the Arts and 4.317 represent TGSE on the SE LEP Board. Links to are also developing across the advanced 4.308 the rest of Essex are enabled by three TGSE manufacturing sector with the Centre for The table below provides a summary of the Through our growth corridors we are business representatives being members of Manufacturing and Engineering Excellence TGSE asks by theme. promoting investment in infrastructure and the Greater Essex Business Board with one of property which will support development in those members acting as Vice-Chair. TGSEP a number of strategic locations where we members are part of the Thames Gateway Table 4.39: TGSE Summary Table will look to promote housing development. Strategic Group chaired by a Deputy Mayor Ultimately, these locations will deliver more of London and attended by the Thames Full cost LGF funding Match Jobs Homes than 45,500 new homes, with more than Gateway Minister TGSE 7,200 coming forward by 2021 through the (£m) requirement Funding Created Created 4.313 direct investment now sought: Transport 188.48 137.14 51.34 92,537 43,742 This stable governance framework has an • 1,500 homes in Basildon Town Centre SEFUND 1,662.25 51.30 1,610.95 12,820 4791 impressive history of local joint working to • 1,600 homes in Lakeside develop and support key interventions to Productivity 24.00 4.20 20.00 1000 0 • 816 homes in Grays Town Centre support substantial growth. This collaboration Skills (revenue) 18.50 3.00 15.50 1700 0 • 800 homes in Purfleet Town Centre has already facilitated significant private Total 1,893.43 195.64 1,697.79 108,057 48,533 • 500 homes in Canvey sector investment in nationally important • 350 homes in Tilbury projects including London Southend Airport and the London Gateway super-port and • 600 homes in Rochford TGSEP has now set the framework to secure • 250 homes in Southend Central further investment in key locations including • 128 homes in the Craylands and Fryerns Purfleet, Lakeside, Thames Enterprise Park, HW Wilson estate in Basildon Basildon Town Centre, Southend and Rochford through investment in increasing Location: South Ockenden Thurrock 4.309 access to specific growth points along the In total we can deliver 7,200 additional A13 and A127 corridors. Industry: Construction homes in these areas to 2021. We are contributing significantly to the development 4.314 Based in Thurrock for over 80 yrs H W Wilson Ltd has seen the good and the bad times of these growth locations. Our ask of The TGSE programmes and projects come to the area. Although never in our history have we seen the local area on the government is included within the growth described in this section have been agreed cusp of such potential growth and improvement. corridor figures, above. as an integrated package recognising, as a natural economic geography, that success With the correct investment and a steady hand Thurrock can truly become the 4.310 in one part of TGSE will bring benefits in leading light in the much vaunted ‘Thames Gateway’. Whether we are to be directly C AS E ST U DY In total we can deliver 21,750 jobs and 7,200 terms of job opportunities or supply chain involved in any of the huge construction projects is still to be seen, however we will homes to 2021. We are investing £300m possibilities to communities and business of local authority money, and requesting be here to help and guide the across the area. The package includes skills, local communities to take full £195.7m to match this. This will lever £4.4bn of innovation and employment programmes advantage of the opportunities private sector investment. for TGSE that build upon already successful joint working, such as the ERDF low carbon afforded to them.
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