Enterprise Zones Wales

Where your Enterprise meets ours With excellent infrastructure and communication links, each of our eight Enterprise Zones offers you a unique package of business benefits.

Holyhead 1 Llandudno Bangor A55 M56 4 Manchester 55 minutes Caernarfon A5 Wrexham

Porthmadog 8 Harlech Helsinki

Tallinn A 458 M54

3 8 Birmingham 4 A 1 hr 07 mins SCTAD Riga

Aberystwyth A4 4

Edinburgh

7 7

0 Copenhagen 8

IEAD

Dublin

Manchester

Cardigan

8 WAES EAD

4 Amsterdam Warsaw A

0 Berlin

Bristol Fishguard London A

Carmarthen M50

A40

Brussels

Birmingham

A40

A48 A40

Prague

Haverfordwest

1 hr 09 mins A477 5

6 4 5 6 Llanelli A A

4 Milford Haven M4

7 Paris

Tenby

Swansea

7 M4 Budapest M4 Newport Cardiff Bridgend 3 London 2 2 hrs 15 mins

Belgrade

Rome Tiranë Madrid

Lisbon Enterprising locations

1 Anglesey Where major projects are driving the growth of world-class low carbon power generation.

2 Cardiff Airport and St Athan A 50+ year aerospace and defence heritage, a rich pool of manufacturing and engineering skills and an international airport on site.

3 Central Cardiff A premier 56.7 hectare (140 acre) business Helsinki district in the closest capital city to London

Tallinn with around 50% lower property costs.

4 Deeside

SCTAD Riga A 2,000 hectare (4,942 acre) home to cutting edge manufacturing – Edinburgh and the highest concentration of Copenhagen manufacturing jobs in the UK.

IEAD Dublin Manchester 5 Ebbw Vale Strong manufacturing skills availability, WAES EAD Amsterdam Warsaw Berlin 40 hectares (90 acres) of development Bristol London land with 100% expansion space and Brussels fast-tracked planning, plus excellent Prague connectivity to the Midlands.

Paris 6 Haven Waterway

Budapest Longstanding energy heritage and diversity and innovation across a range of sectors at the heart of the UK’s only coastal National Park. Belgrade 7 Port Talbot Waterfront A longstanding manufacturing heritage and unique well connected location Rome Tiranë make this one of the most accessible and Madrid unique business destinations in Wales. Lisbon 8 Snowdonia Home to two truly unique sites tailor- made for low carbon energy, ICT or aerospace related businesses.

1 2 Introducing Enterprise Zones Wales Whatever your business, Wales has an Enterprise Zone which will help you flourish.

Whether you want to launch Naturally, you’ll also have access focus sectors - normally because or grow your business, we’ve to the other types of support of a particular skills heritage or concentrated the best possible Wales offers in areas such as specific natural resources. But conditions for you to do just skills development, ICT, R&D and we’ve made sure there are that in eight distinct Enterprise international trade - plus sector- benefits for all businesses in Zones across Wales. specific funding if you’re working every single one, so you can Whether your number one in one of our priority sectors. take your pick. So, when you also factor in requirement is strong financial Private sector-led Zone Boards, competitive salaries and property support, a skilled workforce, with strong support from costs, our Enterprise Zones really the best transport links and local authorities, help us meet start to add up for your business. access to markets, co-location all your business needs, and with your sector’s supply chain We’ll help you create your skilled directly advise the Welsh and customers, bespoke space, workforce from ours, with Government and Ministers. lower property and people properly structured recruitment costs - or the combination Plus, you can expect quick support, and introduce you to of all of these - Wales has an decisions from our devolved our industry-led, commercially- Enterprise Zone for you. Government that works with focussed academics already companies on the ground making strides in your sector. Your investment will to create the best possible be met with our Your ambition to grow will conditions for your business to be met by our Zones’ great succeed. Just as your ambition commitment to keep spaces and accelerated is to grow your business, our your costs low and to planning processes. mission is to make a Welsh Enterprise Zone the best place Focussed on getting easier support your move in for you to do just that. access to your markets and every way we can. supply chain? Excellent road, So whatever your business needs, Move to an Enterprise Zone rail, sea and air links to the rest you’ll get tailored support from and you will be eligible for of the UK, mainland Europe our team to make sure our particular financial incentives and the rest of the world will enterprise meets yours in one including some of the highest help, with ongoing investment of Wales’ Enterprise Zones. levels of grant aid in the UK in our transport infrastructure. for Zones located within Tier 1 Areas*. Enhanced Capital We are delivering Next Allowances (ECAs) are available Generation Broadband across at certain sites in some Zones, Wales, with high speeds and Finance Wales offers loans and business services widely at reduced rates to eligible available, particularly focussed at SMEs throughout all eight. strategic priority locations such as our designated Enterprise The Wales Enterprise Zone and Local Growth Zones. Business Rates Scheme has benefited 200 SMEs across the You can choose to move in Welsh Enterprise Zones, providing alongside suppliers and over £9 million towards the customers, with all eight of our cost of their business rates. Enterprise Zones having their own *Terms and conditions apply

3 4 Enterprise Zones in Wales offer:

• Some of the highest levels of • Bespoke space grant aid in the UK from Welsh, UK and European sources (for • Excellent transport links and access Zones located in Tier 1 Areas) to markets

• Selected sites in some Zones offer • Enterprise Zones prioritised for Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs) next generation broadband

• Loans at reduced rates are available • Option to co-locate with sector for eligible SMEs from Finance Wales supply chain and customers

• Skilled workforce • Commercially focussed academic links

• Competitive salary and property costs • Private sector-led Zone Boards which directly advise the Welsh • Accelerated planning processes Government and Ministers

5 Anglesey Where major projects are driving the growth of world-class low carbon power generation.

At Anglesey Enterprise Zone your energy requirements, the Zone has ten, wide- will be met by ours when you become ranging, well-connected sites at various part of the major projects driving the stages of development. growth of world-class low carbon Join us here and your business could be met power generation on the island. with opportunities to work alongside our Our natural resources are only one of the major renewable energy providers as part of reasons why the world’s major energy the growing supply chain for major low carbon businesses are bringing their projects here. energy projects, both current and pipeline. Another is because we can act fast and These include the construction of a new, efficiently: the Energy Island programme £12 billion power station at Wylfa Newydd means the Welsh Government, local by Horizon Nuclear Power. With the site authority and the private sector are already due to be completed by the mid-2020s, and working together, so we know how to the station’s projected 60 year operational bring together everything you need. lifetime, it means security, engineering, maintenance and other contracts that With Tier 1 Area status ensuring some of could provide a platform for your future the UK’s highest levels of financial support sustainability and long-term growth. are available here, whatever your space 6 Anglesey Where major projects are driving the growth of world-class low carbon power generation.

anglesey-ez.gov.wales 7 The Morlais Tidal Marine Zone The £1 billion Orthios Ecopark in presents excellent opportunities for Holyhead will have a 300 MW developers to test and demonstrate biomass power station as its core their marine technology and innovate development with residual heat alongside researchers at one of supporting food production, while Europe’s largest academic marine developer, Land & Lakes plans to build science centres at nearby Bangor tourist accommodation and residential University and at the University’s units as part of a major development. M-SParc Science Park on Anglesey. Both projects will offer supply chain opportunities during construction Naturally, with all the and then ongoing employment and major energy investment support contracts once operational. The workforce here is not just projects come associated experienced and loyal but has strong developments: so, even skills and particular strengths in engineering and construction, playing if you are not in the its part in Welsh productivity levels energy sector, the supply that are higher than the UK average. chain and associated These skills are also continually developing: the dedicated Cwmni development opportunities Prentis Menai Scheme, for example, delivers engineering and construction are significant in Anglesey apprenticeships specifically for Enterprise Zone. the energy supply chain. Your ambition to grow will be met by our great variety of space set across ten strategic sites within the Zone, variously focussed on the low carbon energy sector and its supply chain, industrial, manufacturing and office uses - and we have a full programme of infrastructure investment underway. You will be within easy reach of your customers and suppliers across the UK and beyond. The internationally strategic gateway port at Holyhead has routes to Ireland for both freight and passengers. London is just 3.5 hours

8 by train and the nearby Cambrian So, whatever your business needs to Coast Mainline railway connects to the grow, you’ll get tailored support from major conurbations and markets of the our team to make sure our enterprise Midlands, while the A55 expressway meets yours in Anglesey Enterprise Zone. across north Wales quickly connects you to the UK motorway network. Manchester and Liverpool and their Why Anglesey? airports are less than 2 hours’ drive, • World-class low carbon energy while flying from Anglesey’s own airport generation to Cardiff takes just 40 minutes. • Significant supply chain Then there’s the private sector-led opportunities for major, long-term Anglesey Enterprise Zone Board projects which helps us meet all your business • Ten key sites needs, and directly advises the Welsh Government and Ministers. • Skilled workforce Confirming Anglesey as a centre of • Some of the highest levels of grant excellence for low carbon energy funding in the UK (Tier 1 Area) generation is our ambition and your • A great place to live success here is key to achieving it.

anglesey-ez.gov.wales 9 10 Cardiff Airport and St Athan A 50+ year aerospace and defence heritage, a rich pool of manufacturing and engineering skills and an international airport on site.

At Cardiff Airport and St Athan Frequent flights to the Amsterdam, Enterprise Zone we’ve got everything Dublin and Paris hubs will connect your business needs to take off: choose you easily and conveniently to the from three distinct sites, all within rest of the world from your doorstep, easy reach of the centre of Cardiff, making this site ideal not only for MRO the nearest capital city to London. (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul), storage and salvage businesses and cargo Join us here and you’ll not only have operations but for any business with a the facilities, skills, experience and significant international dimension. local supply chain that come with over 50 years’ aerospace and defence St Athan Aerospace Business Park is heritage, but you’ll also become home to state-of-the-art workshops part of a truly leading location and hangars which contribute to within the UK aerospace industry. Wales’ 20% share of the UK’s MRO market. In February 2016, this site beat Cardiff Airport is fully within the off competition from more than 20 Zone and serves passengers and worldwide locations to secure Aston freight worldwide, while its 2,392m Martin as its next resident. The iconic (7847ft) runway can accommodate luxury car manufacturer announced its all generations and sizes of aircraft, plans to take over the Superhangar to including the A380. Over 40 direct produce the new Aston Martin DBX; destinations include other cities full production is expected to begin in throughout the UK and Ireland, 2020 with the creation of 750 new jobs mainland Europe and beyond. and a further 1000 in the supply chain.

cardiffairport-ez.gov.wales 11 The nation’s longstanding manufacturing Cardiff (BAMC). High-security projects and engineering heritage means your aren’t an issue either – the MOD already workforce here is highly skilled and has a major base here, making the experienced: productivity levels are business park a totally secure site. higher in Wales than the UK average Whether you need accommodation for and we have particularly loyal workers. civilian or military use, you can move The skills and research you need to straight into ready-built hangars and grow your business are bolstered workshops ideal for ancillary MRO by the Zone’s great links with our services, manufacture, NDT (Non- universities who produce over 2,000 Destructive Testing) or R&D. If you have engineering graduates every year particular requirements, we’ll develop and whose commercially focussed to your specifications – including academics are already collaborating on airside access if you need it – and the industry research. World-class aerospace site has a newly resurfaced 1,800+m education is literally on the doorstep runway and full airfield support. with CAA and ESEA-approved training Our plan is to develop an Airport providers operating from a purpose- City - high quality offices as well as built centre next to the airport. education, training and leisure facilities We’ll deliver property and support for - on the Gateway Development you in the Zone just as we have for Zone, which is next to the airport. some of the world’s biggest operators, including British Airways Maintenance,

12 We’ll make sure your move into the A private sector-led Board helps us meet Zone is straightforward and, once all your business needs, with strong you’re here, our great connections support from the Vale of Glamorgan will help you nurture and grow Council, and directly advises the Welsh your great connections, putting you Government and Ministers. within easy reach of customers and Confirming the Zone as a true leader suppliers across the UK and beyond. within the UK aerospace and defence The M4 is within easy reach, while industries is our ambition and your London is a comfortable two-hour success is key to achieving it. So, drive or train journey from Cardiff whatever your business needs to grow, – and just 100 minutes by 2018 you’ll get tailored support from our with the electrification of the Great team to make sure our enterprise Western line. And, of course, Cardiff meets yours in Cardiff Airport Airport provides on-site connectivity and St Athan Enterprise Zone. to other parts of the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and beyond.

Why Cardiff Airport and St Athan? • Extensive local and regional supply chain • Two runways • 24-hour operation and the • Unrivalled aerospace heritage highest levels of security • Future-proof local skills and R&D • On-site international airport and • Ready made accommodation excellent connections to the rest and opportunities to develop of the UK, mainland Europe and bespoke facilities beyond by road, rail and air

cardiffairport-ez.gov.wales 13 Central Cardiff A premier 56.7 hectare (140 acre) business district in the closest capital city to London with around 50% lower property costs.

Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone is a And you’ll notice that lower 56.7 hectare (140 acre) business district property costs don’t mean you at the heart of the closest capital city have to compromise on space: we to London with around 50% lower are facilitating the development of property costs1 and up to 30% lower Grade A office accommodation and salary costs2. access infrastructure. Over 52,000m² (560,000ft²) of new and redeveloped Take a train from Paddington and in office space was made available in the just two hours -100 minutes in 2018 Zone’s first three years alone, with more after rail electrification - you’ll arrive in the pipeline at Central Square, Capital at the city’s central station, which is Quarter and Callaghan Square, plus a within this ultra-central Zone. Stroll new central transport interchange with through the capital and you’ll see a host plans to include a new city/bay metro. of familiar names, including the AA, Admiral, Deloitte, Eversheds, ING Direct, Legal & General, Zurich and more.

14 1 BNP Paribas Real Estate 2014 2 Robert Half Salary Guide 2015

cardiff-ez.gov.wales 15 3 UK’s best city to live in Power supplies won’t be an issue for you a new FE campus right at the heart (Moneysupermarket survey 2014); top UK in Cardiff as the city continues to grow. of the Zone is not just delivering city for quality of life, Our resilient power infrastructure and commercial and professional services European Commission’s 2013 Urban Audit support means our utilities are geared courses to its students, it is also working 4 Going Shopping 2013: for the most power hungry businesses. with businesses in the Zone to create the definitive guide to bespoke training programmes. shopping centres You’ll draw from a talent pool of 1.4 million people living within 30 minutes’ Your growth will be fuelled by commute – set to grow with the established, strong links with academics imminent electrification of the urban and students at our three universities, rail network. And they’ll have the skills which include three business schools you need: half of Wales’ 140,000 skilled and three law schools. They deliver a financial and professional services steady stream of graduates from their workers are based in the Cardiff region, pool of 70,000 students, and Cardiff’s while 30% of the city’s entire workforce strategic location means the 50,000 is qualified at least to degree level. strong student populations of Bath, Bristol and Swansea are also accessible. Besides our support to hone the skills you need to grow, our focus remains firmly on growing your talent pool:

16 You’re more likely to keep the people you invest in here too, as graduates tend to stay and our workforce is particularly loyal. This may be because Cardiff regularly features in the UK and Europe’s best cities to live in surveys³, we’re a UK top five retail location4, and host world-class cultural and sporting events in our jaw-dropping venues, while the city centre and the bay combine to offer a cool, urban lifestyle, with incredible coast and countryside on the doorstep, all underpinned by an affordable cost of living. Our local connections will help you stay close to your global connections, with the M4 touching the north of the city and easy motorway access to Bristol, London, and the Midlands. Cardiff Airport is a half-hour drive, Bristol an hour and Heathrow just 90 minutes, while Birmingham, Manchester and other London airports are all within easy reach. 5 ONS; Welsh Government Why Central Cardiff? There is an array of potential digital benefits for any business located within • Closest capital to London with Grade A office rental the Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone. costs less than 50% of the Companies have access to competitive average London rates and up broadband speeds, including Superfast to 30% lower salary costs and Ultrafast broadband, allowing businesses to reach their full digital • Resilient utilities infrastructure potential. Furthermore, the area • Cardiff Internet Exchange offers boasts availability of both local and secure, reliable and cost effective secure data centres and a burgeoning data transit, internet peering, and internet exchange making Central advantages to local businesses including more bandwidth Cardiff the virtual capital of Wales. available at lower costs, faster Cardiff is predicted to be the UK’s links due to reduced latency in fastest growing city over the next traffic, amongst many others twenty years, and our ambition is to • 1.4m workers live within confirm it as the UK’s premier business a 30-minute commute location outside London. Your success • Three universities; 70,000 is key to achieving that. So, whatever students; three business your business needs to grow, you’ll schools, three law schools; get tailored support from our team to and 30% of the workforce make sure our enterprise meets yours qualified to degree level in Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone.

cardiff-ez.gov.wales 17 18 Deeside A 2,000 hectare (4,942 acre) home to cutting edge manufacturing – and the highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in the UK.

At Deeside Enterprise Zone we have the We achieve this by working closely highest concentration of manufacturing with and supporting the Zone’s jobs in the UK – it’s in our DNA. More existing residents, who have helped of our people work in manufacturing sustain and drive our expert skills than in any other field, playing a big part for decades, including Airbus, in achieving Welsh productivity levels Tata Steel, Toyota and UPM. that are higher than the UK average. Your business, like theirs, will be Take a look around our 2,000 supported as you hone your employees’ hectare (4942 acre) zone in north skills through apprenticeships and east Wales and you’ll see a real bespoke training from our established partner colleges and universities, diversity of sectors - from aerospace who are already delivering workforce and automotive to electronics and development programmes for pharmaceuticals to construction, food our resident companies. And and sustainable energy. The one thing we’ve been investing in advanced they all have in common is highly manufacturing for years, so we can skilled, contemporary manufacturing. introduce you to the right academic But it’s not just about our heritage, partners for your business. it’s also about blazing a trail – move The Zone’s Advanced Composites into Deeside Enterprise Zone and you’ll Research, Training and Development see first-hand how we always want Centre, which helps thousands of Airbus to make things better. So there is a employees to develop their skills, was continual drive to develop cutting edge the result of a partnership between new materials and techniques, through Glynd ˆwr University, Airbus, Coleg innovation, research and collaboration. Cambria and the Welsh Government.

deeside-ez.gov.wales 19 Today, it also works with businesses focussed on R&D, skills development and and academia on R&D projects. the commercialisation of technology. Coleg Cambria itself delivers bespoke Plus, we can tailor your accommodation, workforce training and development from an unparalleled selection for employers across the Zone and of new, ready-to-go buildings to has even developed a dedicated large development sites ideal for Centre for Aerospace Training in major, complex projects, with response to local employer demand. simplified planning processes in So you can expect a highly skilled talent place to fast-track your move. pool born into a manufacturing tradition Our great connections will help and developed through constantly you nurture and grow your great evolving productive environments. connections, putting you within easy And you can choose among a working reach of customers and suppliers across population of over two million living the UK and beyond by road, rail, air within a 30-minute commute. and sea. Deeside lies on the TEN-22 Your ambition to grow will be met by route, well positioned to access both our great space – and lots of it. In fact, Irish and mainland European markets, the Zone is the only location in the and the wider UK motorway network. north Wales/north west England area There is an airport within the Zone, that can accommodate a 92,900m² Liverpool’s docks and airport and (1,000,000 ft²) industrial unit. Manchester Airport can all be reached You’ll know which part of the Zone is in 35 minutes. The Port of Mostyn is for you as soon as you look around - also half-an-hour away, and it’s just there’s a development-ready 90-hectare over an hour to the Port of Holyhead. (222 acre) site here with full planning A private sector-led Enterprise Zone permission, for instance, while another Board helps us anticipate and meet all area is focussed on sustainable energy your business needs, and directly advises businesses. And we’re planning an the Welsh Government and Ministers. Advanced Manufacturing Institute,

20 Confirming Deeside as a globally recognised centre for advanced manufacturing and technology excellence is our ambition and your success is key to achieving it. So whatever your business needs to grow, you’ll get tailored support from our team to make sure our enterprise meets yours in Deeside Enterprise Zone.

Why Deeside?

• Large areas eligible for ECAs (Enhanced Capital Allowances) for capital investment support

• Over two million people living within a 30 minute commute

• Strong manufacturing heritage, forward-looking manufacturing skills and technology

• World-class manufacturing skills development and research by local colleges and universities

• Located on the TEN-22 route, 30-60 minutes to several ports and airports and UK motorway network

• Range of affordable accommodation, from new, ready-to-go buildings to large development sites

deeside-ez.gov.wales 21 Ebbw Vale Strong manufacturing skills availability, 40 hectares (90 acres) of development land with 100% expansion space and fast-tracked planning, plus excellent connectivity to the Midlands.

Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone has a You will be among good company here: rich international and indigenous the area is already the location of choice manufacturing heritage, contributing for international leaders such as Tenneco, to Welsh productivity levels that Yuasa Battery, Continental Teves, G-TEM, are higher than the UK average. Northern Automotive Systems, PCI Pharma Services and Monier Redland. Your workforce here is not just already So you’ll not only have an existing supply skilled but also keeps growing and chain and potential customers, but also developing: our local universities deliver world-class manufacturing research at 2000 engineering students every year, Cardiff and Swansea Universities, plus while our local Shared Apprenticeship applied research at Cardiff University, Scheme (SAS) is currently swelling the University of South Wales and the the talent pool for manufacturing, University of Wales Trinity St David. engineering and food businesses here.

22 With Tier 1 Area status ensuring some of the UK’s highest levels of financial support are available here, your investment in your workforce delivers strong returns too, with high levels of staff retention. This is largely down to the local quality of life (all underpinned by a very affordable cost of living). With incredible coast and countryside on the doorstep, including the Brecon Beacons National Park. Ebbw Vale is just half an hour from Cardiff, our capital, which regularly features in the UK and Europe’s best cities to live in surveys1 and is a UK top five retail location2.

ebbwvale-ez.gov.wales 23 40 hectares (98 acres) of development The Zone has established links land across five distinct sites offering with our universities’ and colleges’ 100% expansion space. The choice is yours, from temporary accommodation commercially-focussed academics and modification of existing buildings who are already working with right through to speculative new-build. The Zone has outline planning businesses here, not just on permission throughout, while research but also to develop and fast-tracking means any planning decisions are normally made within deliver bespoke training. An on- just eight weeks, and initial studies have already been completed to site e-learning zone is also planned, speed up your time to site. to further develop the skills You’ll have strong road, rail and air links to customers and suppliers in the required by resident companies. UK, mainland Europe and beyond. Just

1 30 minutes from Cardiff and a couple UK’s best city to live in And there are major opportunities (Moneysupermarket for local businesses in the pipeline, of hours from London, you’re within survey 2014); top UK with plans for a £325m motor racing easy reach not just of their airports but city for quality of life, also those at Bristol and Birmingham. European Commission’s track over 335 hectares (830 acres) 2013 Urban Audit within the Zone. The Circuit of Wales It’s under an hour to the M5 and M6, 2 Going Shopping 2013: is set to host the MotoGP™ from linking to the West Midlands and other the definitive guide to UK manufacturing hubs in just two shopping centres 2017 - potentially until 2024 – and is projected to bring 750,000 visitors a hours. And, with £800 million invested year to the area. The associated major in developing the A465 and an extension regeneration plans include commercial of the railway line, direct access into and and retail opportunities, a hotel and out of the Zone is only getting faster. a motor sports industries centre. Our private sector-led Board helps us Even your utility costs could be lower: meet all your business needs, with one of our sites has its own Energy strong support from Blaenau Gwent Centre – one of just three in Europe County Borough Council, and directly – which is already reducing energy advises the Welsh Government costs and carbon emissions by up to and Ministers. And whatever your 20% via a district heating system, business needs to grow, you’ll get which we are planning to extend. tailored support from our team to make sure our enterprise meets yours Your growth plans can be realised over in Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone.

Image credit: Circuit of Wales.

24 Why Ebbw Vale?

• Some of the highest levels of financial assistance in the UK (Tier 1 Area)

• Five key sites

• 40 hectares (98 acres) of development land with 100% expansion space

• Some Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs) for capital investment support

• Fast-tracked planning decisions – usually within eight weeks

• Range of spaces from temporary accommodation to modified properties and speculative new-build

• Strong manufacturing track record and skills availability

• World-class manufacturing research at local universities

ebbwvale-ez.gov.wales 25 Haven Waterway Longstanding energy heritage and diversity and innovation across a range of sectors at the heart of the UK’s only coastal National Park.

When it comes to business, collagen happened here – with the Pembrokeshire is all about company responsible now moving diversity and innovation. to larger scale extraction to support groundbreaking medical applications. Our varied landscape continues to provide a stunning backdrop for a And, while Pembrokeshire’s thriving tourism sector and energy reputation as a world-class tourism generation, as well as a rich environment destination is long established, for all sorts of food producers. we’re still opening up new markets, seeing massive growth currently in And this environmental diversity the international cruising sector. is matched only by the variety of commercial sectors already Our local workforce is not only flourishing in the Haven Waterway skilled but also adaptable: there is Enterprise Zone: life sciences, ICT and a longstanding energy heritage - manufacturing firms are growing 20% of the UK’s energy is supplied alongside new and established from here - with today’s focus energy, food and tourism businesses on renewable technologies. and their extensive supply chains. In fact, the Zone is rapidly becoming Join us at the heart of the UK’s a base for both wave and tidal only coastal National Park and stream technologies. Marine Energy you’ll be in the company of world- Pembrokeshire is a partnership between leading businesses, ranging from technology developers, suppliers, software developers to high-precision academia and the public sector manufacturers, who are truly innovative. working together to establish a centre of excellence for sustainable marine You may be surprised to learn, for energy generation here. A new zone has example, that heating equipment been established 13km (8 miles) off the for new housing developments in coast to support the demonstration of China is exported from here. And wave arrays with a generating capacity that the UK’s first harvest of jellyfish of up to 30MW for each project.

26 haven-ez.gov.wales 27 Skills diversification is part of life for us too - so we do it very well. You’ll have lots of support from our local universities and colleges who are already delivering bespoke training to businesses, ranging from degrees to tailored work- based learning - and Pembrokeshire College, with its 14,500 students, is located right at the heart of the Zone. Equally, if specialist R&D is key to unlocking your business’s potential, we’ll introduce you to the relevant experts. With Tier 1 Area status ensuring some of the UK’s highest levels of financial support are available here, investing in your workforce pays dividends, too, as they are particularly loyal, not least because of the enviable lifestyle. Pembrokeshire regularly tops tourism polls worldwide for its beautiful coast and countryside, activities and attractions. And when you add in the affordable cost of living and range of education opportunities, it’s clear why people love to live here too. Join us and you’ll have the space to grow, whether you’re after an industrial starter unit, offices, farmland or access to one of the world’s deepest natural harbours at Milford Haven. Our business parks have outline planning consent as well as development land, and we can create bespoke accommodation or refurbish. All with simplified planning processes in place so we can act fast for you. Our great connections will put you within easy reach of customers and suppliers across the UK and beyond. The M4 is within an hour by car, and Cardiff with its international airport is just two hours’ drive away. There are two regular ferry routes directly to Ireland while Milford Haven is the UK’s fifth busiest port. Pembrokeshire’s energy heritage means your business will be powered via our own 400 KV National Grid connection. And our energy infrastructure doesn’t end there: we have connections directly into the national high-pressure gas transmission network and into inland oil distribution terminals.

28 Then there’s the private sector-led Haven Waterway Enterprise Zone Why Haven Waterway? Board which helps us meet all your • Some of the highest levels of grant aid business needs, with strong support and support in the UK (Tier 1 Area) from Pembrokeshire County Council, and which directly advises the Welsh • Sector and skills diversity Government and Ministers. • Variety of space and tailored accommodation Confirming Pembrokeshire as one of the UK’s best places to do business and live • Access to markets via sea, road and air is our ambition and your success here • Direct National Grid, is key to achieving it. And so whatever gas and oil infrastructure connections your business needs to grow, you’ll • 14,500 students and tailored get tailored support from our team to skills support within the Zone make sure our enterprise meets yours in Haven Waterway Enterprise Zone. • A great place to live

haven-ez.gov.wales 29 Port Talbot Waterfront A longstanding manufacturing heritage and unique well-connected location make this one of the most accessible and unique business destinations in Wales.

Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone Port Talbot is a major manufacturing is located on the eastern edge of location with long established strengths Swansea Bay in south west Wales, and in manufacturing and steel production is home to a highly skilled workforce - innovators in the area include in a wide diversity of sectors. A TATA Steel, BOC, SPECIFIC, TWI and deep water harbour, excellent rail ThyssenKrupp. The area is steeped in and road links makes this is one industrial heritage, but with a firm focus of the most accessible and unique on continuing to develop cutting edge, business destinations in Wales. world-class industries in sectors such as Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Construction and Green Energy.

30 • Baglan Energy Park is one of • Harbourside Park is part of Wales’ premier business and industrial the Harbourside project which is locations, with opportunities for both redeveloping the town’s former docks manufacturing and service industries quarter and transforming the area on the site. The Energy Park is home into a new business hub. A new R&D to more than 1,800 people, with Village, located in the Park, is already the capacity to accommodate 3,000 home to leading global innovators jobs. The Park is the first stage in the such as Tata Steel and TWI UK Ltd, regeneration of Baglan Bay - a single which specialises in the development development site that will eventually and application of state of the art total some 1,500 acres (607 hectares). non-destructive testing methods. • Baglan Industrial Park is located in • Port Talbot Docks is one of very few a prominent position adjacent to the harbours in the UK capable of handling M4 motorway and with direct access vessels of up to 180,000 deadweight to junction 42 giving good access to tonnage (dwt) (290m length/ 16.7m the West, Cardiff, Bristol as well as draft), and located within easy reach southern England and the Midlands. of the open sea and benefiting from An excellent main line rail service is access to direct mainline rail and the available from Port Talbot to London, M4. It comprises of the Tidal Harbour, whilst major port facilities are nearby. which handles cape-size bulk vessels, and Docks, which accommodate smaller heavy-lift and general cargo vessels.

porttalbot-ez.gov.wales 31 Images credit: Good infrastructure, planning Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. designations and positive landowners ensures that Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone can accommodate expanding businesses, new start ups and inward investors. Whether you’re looking for space to develop bespoke facilities or to move straight into new, ready-made accommodation Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone has ready availability of large areas of development land and a wide selection of high quality buildings. The area benefits from world-class industry led commercial research; nearby is Swansea University’s Bay Campus which focuses on science and innovation and is one of the biggest knowledge economy projects in Europe. Other energy related research projects include The Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre and SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre at Swansea University amongst others.

32 Your connections at Port Talbot couldn’t be better - situated on the eastern edge of Swansea Bay, Port Talbot is only 15 minutes from Swansea, 45 minutes from Wales’ vibrant capital city, Cardiff, and 3 hours from London. A new £107m peripheral distributor road - currently the largest transport project in Wales - delivers a direct five minute link from Junction 38 of the M4 straight into Port Talbot and Harbourside, and an £11m investment in the redevelopment of Port Talbot Parkway train station is making Harbourside a key location for further commercial developments. The area boasts the seaside at Aberavon Beach, mountain biking at Afan Forest Park and Waterfall Country right on its doorstep. To the west of Port Talbot lies the Gower Peninsula, Why Port Talbot Waterfront? which was the UK’s first Area of • A loyal and skilled • World-class advanced Outstanding Natural Beauty, while to manufacturing pool manufacturing the north are the Black Mountains living within a 30 skills development and Brecon Beacons National Park. minute commute and research by Businesses moving to the area are set • Strong manufacturing local colleges and to profit from the inherent strengths heritage, forward universities and the existing growth potential looking manufacturing • Range of affordable of the region, and the momentum skills and technology accommodation, of the Economic Regeneration from new, ready-to- Strategy of Swansea Bay City Region • Government and local go buildings to large which is a catalyst to improving authority support development sites the prospects of communities, for business needs businesses and the economy.

porttalbot-ez.gov.wales 33 Snowdonia Home to two truly unique sites tailor-made for low carbon energy, ICT or aerospace-related businesses.

At the heart of the Snowdonia National home to one of Wales’ largest lakes - a Park, this Enterprise Zone’s two truly natural, low-cost source of cooling – but unique sites offer the ideal environment also has its own grid infrastructure that for the growth of your low carbon delivers a reliable, green energy supply. energy, ICT or aerospace related This sustainable power source plus business. All with Tier 1 Area status established, high-level security are ensuring some of the UK’s highest levels the ideal combination for your ICT of financial support are available here. business. Add in the distance from Join us in Snowdonia - either as an major conurbations plus access operator or part of the supply chain – to wider fibre optic services, and and you’ll be part of the significant low Trawsfynydd becomes the ideal data carbon energy cluster we form with centre location with its natural energy, the neighbouring Anglesey Enterprise natural cooling and natural security. Zone, already home to some of the Your local workforce here includes major utilities’ investments in biomass, technically skilled professionals - many wave, wind and nuclear power. qualified to degree level – who are You’ll find exceptional infrastructure becoming available as the nuclear plant at Trawsfynydd, our 50 hectare (123 is decommissioned. And they have acre) site around the former nuclear already been redeveloping their skills power station which offers first-of- for new employment under a tailored its-kind Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programme, Shaping the Future. development potential. The site isn’t just

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The Zone’s airfield at Llanbedr has into the Zone’s 7,100km² of segregated all the attributes you’d expect of a airspace, stretching over Cardigan Bay. former MoD site, plus state-of-the-art Combining airfield infrastructure with facilities following significant investment airspace management to form a world- with more already underway. It’s class turnkey solution for developing been developed into the second site, and testing RPAS, Snowdonia Aerospace Snowdonia Aerospace Centre and, set Centre, Llanbedr, has the potential on a coastal peninsular, its winning to meet operator and regulator feature is its segregated airspace: unique requirements for a UK Spaceport. in the UK and the first of its kind in And just a couple of hours away are Europe, it allows simultaneous access the complementary facilities of Parc by both civil and military operators Aberporth, the UK’s only technology for the routine testing of Remotely park dedicated to the development Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). of technologies for the unmanned Now tailor-made for the aerospace systems industry and an integral part of Wales’ RPAS ecosystem. and associated industries, the To help you stay ahead of the game, site comprises dedicated MRO the Zone has established links with the commercially-focussed, key (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) research departments of our local universities, Bangor and Aberystwyth, and RPAS areas, and a business and others, with specialist areas park dedicated to R&D technology including ICT, Renewables, Space and Electronic Engineering. and light industrial uses. Our great connections will help you Your recce of this 227.8-hectare (562- reach customers and suppliers across acre) site really is best done from the the UK and beyond. The main A470 air. Take off from one of three runways trunk road linking north and south

36 Why Snowdonia? • Some of the highest • Snowdonia levels of grant aid Aerospace Centre: and support in the − access to 7,100km² UK (Tier 1 Area) of segregated • Two truly unique sites airspace unrivalled across Europe • Trawsfynydd: − dedicated RPAS − offers first-of-its-kind and MRO areas and SMR development business park potential − state-of-the-art − has its own nationally infrastructure important energy infrastructure − ultrafast broadband connectivity − unique location for data centre with natural energy, natural cooling and natural security

Wales runs close to the Zone and Anglesey Airport gives you a 40-minute hop to Cardiff, while Liverpool Airport is just two hours away. Good rail access via the nearby Cambrian Coast Mainline connects to the major conurbations and markets of the Midlands, supported by good arterial road links east to Birmingham. The Zone has its own helipad, plus its own railhead, directly linking to the north Wales rail network, and to Deeside Enterprise Zone, a hub for advanced manufacturing. And it’s just 88 km (55 miles) to the internationally strategic gateway port at Holyhead and a 90-minute journey-time to Ireland for both freight and passengers. A private sector-led Board helps us meet all your business needs, with strong support from Gwynedd Council, and directly advises the Welsh Government and Ministers. And whatever your business needs to grow, you’ll get tailored support from our team to make sure our enterprise meets yours in Snowdonia Enterprise Zone. All information in the brochure is correct at time of print, June 2016