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Our Connectivity Our People and Places Airports in the South Core Settlements West Major Settlements South West Regional Ports Association (ports and members) Other Settlements Rural Hubs Main Train Stations in the South West Urban Areas Highways England - RIS1 Junction Schemes Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Highways England - RIS1 Major Schemes National Parks Transport Development Sources: Consent Orders Office of National Statistics 2011 and mid-2017 estimates Barton Willmore national constraints map 2019 Sources: https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate. gov.uk/projects/ http://www.gis.co.uk/latest/ Greater Connected, Transforming Strategic Connectivity in South West England. ‘An opportunity for local and national government and business leaders to work together to significantly accelerate economic growth’ https://swrpa.org.uk/ https://travelwest.info/projects/metrowest/ metrowest-phase-1 https://www.southwesternrailway.com/ https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/ who-we-are/our-future https://www.exeter-airport.co.uk/about-us/ One Powerhouse Towards a Spatial Blueprint South West A vision for Britain. Planned. Power Stations Research, Professional, Creative Design Wind Development Advanced with a capacity of more Manufacturing than 15MW Transport Logistics Solar Development with a capacity of more than 15MW Energy Hydro Power Visitor Economy Battery Storage with a Traditional Industries capacity of more than 20MW Universities / Further Education Energy Development Consent Orders Sources: https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/lep/ Sources: SD15B West of England Economic Development Needs Assessment (EDNA) https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.g West of England Partnership (2016) ov.uk/projects/ https://swlep.co.uk/ http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/map/ Swindon and Wiltshire Strategic Economic https://theenergyst.com/net-zero-bristols-5 Plan (2016) -billion-decarbonisation-plan/ https://www.cioslep.com/vision/vision-2030 https://www.westernpower.co.uk/ 10 Opportunities Towards a Local Industrial Department for Business Energy and Strategy – Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Industrial Strategy Enterprise Partnership (2018) https://www.somersetenergyinnovationcentr Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Employment and e.co.uk/ Skills Strategy 2016-2030 Nuclear South West Strategy 2017 - Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated https://heartofswlep.co.uk/wp-content/uplo Territorial Investment Strategy (2016) ads/2017/05/NSW-Govt-Strategy-Green-Pap er-Response-FINAL-.pdf https://dorsetlep.co.uk/ Dorset Horizon 2038: A Vision for Growth (2018) https://www.gfirstlep.com/about-us/our-vis ion/strategic-economic-plan/ Strategic Economic Plan for Gloucestershire 2.0 (2018) https://heartofswlep.co.uk/ Our Environment and Energy Our Economy 20 A Vision for Britain. Planned. Challenges SW context 20 The One Powerhouse Consortium, supported by The Sir Hugh and Lady Ruby Challenge 1 - Connectivity and Challenge 5 – Social Inequality and Midlands. However, the spatial areas The region’s economy is worth approximately £127 billion (House of Commons Congestion in the Region: The region Isolated Communities: The location of between the core settlements are Sykes Charitable Trust, believes that a substantial part of the problem of is strong and vibrant, attracting start the core cities and major settlements rural and less prosperous, with ageing 2018). It is home to clusters of world leading sectors ranging from aerospace to regional inequality in the UK can be solved not just by money, but by the up and inward investors from across populations and poor retention of a digital and creative. There are several prosperous areas within the region with the world and comprises rural areas of the south coast and Devon. The One Powerhouse transformative potential of spatial planning. some, such as Gloucestershire, showing an above average growth in productivity and coastal towns and cities, many of region has a ranging population and create disparity of place in the region which are popular tourist destinations. placement of core economic areas, with which is a challenge that needs Connecting a diverse and dispersed the GDP per capita varying from below addressing. With population clusters Towards a spatial blueprint economy and population within and average in Cornwall to above average dispersed across the region, as well Spatial planning is the ‘where’ of decisions. It looks at a The value of place and scale beyond the region remains a key in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. as poor public transport connectivity, challenge. The region has the lowest The more prosperous regions attract it is harder for goods, people, and The region has a high concentration of There are opportunities to tackle the Climate change is the issue of our everything contained in that area – towns, cities, housing, There is evidence that spatial planning has already begun regional infrastructure spending per a skilled workforce, with businesses knowledge to move around easily. demographic and spatial disparity in time, and the complexity of climate South West to deliver results in the UK. We are not alone in recognising head in the country. in the northern part of the region Infrastructure investment has a notable clusters in Gloucestershire the region through providing a greater change means that it touches upon all hospitals, energy sources, museums, parks and leisure that the two ‘regional economies’ that have the highest and Bristol. Aerospace and advanced mix of housing in areas with aging other themes and interventions in this activities - and makes a plan to develop those assets for the levels of productivity are those where there are coherent pressures of the South East and West this challenge. manufacturing are integral report, from reducing the emissions regional economic plans: London and Scotland. components of the South West cluster family housing. This will of course associated with travel, to adapting Homes. future. and key to delivery of the UK Aerospace need to be linked to employment to changes in sea levels, to reversing Resident Population in Employment Indeed, in England, there is good work taking place through Cheltenham industrial strategy. opportunities. harmful trends in biodiversity, to the needs of all, and located in the aged 16-64 NVQ4+ Tewkesbury some Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and Combined Gloucester innovating in the development of Regional inequality in the UK right places. The South West is ideally located for Unless there is a change in policy Authorities and Mayoralties but not all. In strategic planning Forest Cotswold energy generation. The South West 31.0 - 36.0 of Dean Stroud research and energy development. direction economic inequalities and investment terms, these tend to be rather small and the Challenge 3 – The Skills Gap in has both leadership on and remains Today, just under half of the UK population live in regions 36.1 - 41.0 It also has a strong manufacturing will grow, and the South West will outcome is rather patchwork. the Region & Retention of Skills/ vulnerable to, and therefore forms a with a comparable productivity to the poorer parts of South 41.1 - 46.0 City of Gloucestershire Swindon base in marine, food and drink, and experience increased problems of Attracting Talent. Despite recent Bristol focal point for all other interventions. former East Germany – and comparable living standards growth and its economic specialisms, engineering. The visitor economy 46.1 - 51.0 North Bath & are worse. According to the recent UK2070 Commission, Our Plan Somerset North East sector plays an important economic existing infrastructure. House prices the South West’s economy makes up Somerset Wiltshire the UK today is more intraregionally unequal than Germany 7.3% of the UK’s total GVA. This is one 51.1 - 56.7 and rents are high, yet house building Mendip The clear ‘gap’ in terms of economic planning in the UK, Sedgemoor of the lowest of England’s regions, and Source: ONS, Annual Somerset West source of employment. is low indicating that the regional itself together, through decisive investment programmes therefore, is at the level of the English regions. Any spatial is due to several reasons including lack Population Survey, 2018 North Devon housing crisis will worsen. Taunton Deane South underpinned by visionary spatial planning. During a similar strategy needs to bring together the best local industrial of productivity and skills gap, high Somerset There are also opportunities to direct Torridge period the UK, on the other hand, has fragmented. strategies and plans within a wider regional strategy house prices and a low wage economy, Mid Devon some housing growth to more isolated Dorset framework. The foundations of how this can be achieved are poor transport and infrastructure, gaps East Devon parts of the region and stimulating The nature and extent of the so-called ‘North-South’ divide already present. The regions of England are already coming in high speed broadband coverage and West Devon economic activity in the west of the Isles of Scilly Exeter can be presented in many forms. Maps showing economic together: The Northern Powerhouse, The Midlands Engine, Teignbridge peninsula, realising the potential of Cornwall productivity, educational attainment and poor health all Bournemouth, The Great South West and The Wider South East all exist as in retaining and attracting talented Christchurch & Poole present sharp disparities between regions and nations. Torbay functional identities. people and a high proportion of