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Leeds City Region Strategic Investment Framework 6 STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PLAN 2014 PART A: GROWTH PLAN MARCH 2014 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (Separate document) PART A: LEEDS CITY REGION GROWTH PLAN 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SHAPING OUR STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PLAN 3. OUR VISION AND INVESTMENT PRIORITIES 4. THE CASE FOR INVESTING IN LEEDS CITY REGION 5. LEEDS CITY REGION STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK 6. FREEDOMS AND FLEXIBILITIES TO DELIVER OUR VISION 7. ASSURANCE ON DELIVERY PART B: DELIVERY PLAN (Separate document) DELIVERY PLAN FOR 2015/16 PART C: APPENDICES (Separate documents) A. LEEDS CITY REGION LOCAL GROWTH FUND DEAL SHEET B. PAYMENT BY RESULTS MECHANISM C. GOVERNANCE, DELIVERY AND EVALUATION D. RISK MANAGEMENT E. DETAILED EVIDENCE BASE F. LEEDS CITY REGION POLICY AND EVIDENCE G. PARTNER ENGAGEMENT H. DETAILED BUSINESS CASES I. TRANSPORT TECHNICAL ANNEX 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of this document This document presents the Strategic Economic Plan (SEP) for the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The Leeds City Region SEP is the LEP’s long term vision for the City Region economy. It is designed to provide the foundations for growth, aligning our plans with those of public and private sector partners and with government for maximum impact. It demonstrates the opportunities for investment in the City Region and highlights the significant gains that can be made by all who co-invest in Leeds City Region. The SEP is the culmination of many years of collaboration. The Leeds City Region partnership has existed for a decade, and has a track record of delivering on its ambitions. We have been at the forefront of cross-boundary working, from drawing up the first Leeds City Region Development Programme through to our status as a City Region pilot area. With the establishment of the LEP, the partnership has moved to a new level going beyond strategy to delivery of successful interventions that are relevant and enabling to business growth in our area. This SEP aims to build on our previous successes and to achieve stronger growth and prosperity for the City Region. Our SEP also forms the basis of our Growth Deal negotiations with government. As a mature partnership with experience of putting policy into practice, we understand what needs to be done to make the Leeds City Region an even stronger player in the national economy. We have a robust pipeline of projects that will help us achieve this, and have the support of many public and private sector partners who match our ambition to make these projects a reality. Our SEP details what work is already underway to transform the local economy. In many cases, we are making excellent progress and are able to deliver these projects, with public and private sector support, without further government assistance. However, to get some projects and programmes off the ground, or to expand successful interventions that we already know are right for the City Region, we need government’s support. It is for these interventions that we have asked for support through the Local Growth Fund (LGF). The projects included in our SEP have been through a thorough assessment to determine their viability, impact and return on investment. Only interventions we consider vital, viable and good value for money have been included in our LGF bid. 1.2 Structure of this document Our Strategic Economic Plan is structured as follows: PART A: LEEDS CITY REGION GROWTH PLAN Chapter 2 details the process we have followed to develop our Strategic Economic Plan. Chapter 3 sets out our vision, ambitions and priority areas for strategic investment within the City Region. Chapter 4 summarises the evidence base that underpins the investment priorities. It presents the case for investing in the Leeds City Region, given the opportunities we want to build on, the drivers to growth we want to encourage, and the market failures and barriers to growth that need to be tackled. 3 Chapters 5 and 6 introduce the solutions to the challenges we face. They also detail the support we require from government to help us achieve our ambitions, both financially and in terms of greater freedoms and flexibilities. Chapter 7 provides assurance on our ability to deliver the SEP, summarising our governance arrangements and our approach to issues such as risk. These issues are dealt with in more detail in the Appendices. At the end of each chapter in the Growth Plan is a case study highlighting the opportunity on offer in our strategic growth centres. The areas featured are: City Fields, Wakefield (Chapter 2) East Leeds Extension with Thorpe Park (Chapter 3) Bradford-Shipley Canal Road Corridor (Chapter 4) Aire Valley Leeds Enterprise Zone (Chapter 5) York Central (Chapter 6) Leeds South Bank (Chapter 7) PART B: DELIVERY PLAN Part B is the delivery plan for our investment projects and programmes for 2015-16. It identifies financial allocations, and includes details on alignment to wider funding initiatives, national programmes, and our European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) strategy. It also details project outcomes and outputs, and includes profiled spending for our investment plan up to 2020-21 at the programme level. PART C: APPENDICES Appendix A is the “deal sheet” that summarises the financial details of our SEP and our Local Growth Fund ask. Appendix B provides detail on the payment by results model proposed in the SEP. Appendix C describes governance and the delivery arrangements, providing an assessment of deliverability, capacity and risks. It also contains more detail on the Single Appraisal Framework that will underpin future investment decisions and of the approach we intend to take to the monitoring and evaluation of our programmes. Appendix D sets out our approach to risk management. Appendix E presents the detailed evidence base which underpins the projects and programmes in our SEP. Appendix F lists the evidence and policy documents assembled by the Leeds City Region in recent years which form the basis of many of our SEP interventions. Appendix G outlines our partner engagement strategy and the consultation carried out as part of the SEP’s development. Appendix H contains the detailed business cases for the projects in our SEP, including project appraisal and scoring criteria. Appendix I is the transport technical annex, which details the business case for each of our transport projects. 4 2. SHAPING THE STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PLAN 1 6 SHAPING THE STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PLAN 2.1 Introduction The government has asked LEPs to submit their Strategic Economic Plans as a requirement for the agreement of Local Growth Deals with government for each area. This final submission has been agreed by the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership Board. However, the development of the Plan has not been a task for the Board alone. The process has been an invaluable opportunity to involve the business community and other partners in the City Region in drawing up the long term vision for the local economy. We have therefore tried to be as open and transparent as possible in developing this Plan. The process is described in more detail below. 2.2 The SEP has been informed by an extensive engagement process The LEP has initiated a range of consultation activities and events to inform the SEP. We have engaged with local businesses, opinion-formers and the wider community to gather their views. In particular, we have tried to understand 'what works' in terms of policies to promote growth. Over 600 organisations and individuals have been engaged in the development of our SEP to date. Our approach has included: at the end of October, the LEP launched the first of a monthly series of electronic newsletters to communicate progress to key stakeholders, and to external audiences via the LEP website and social media; working with the Yorkshire Post on a series of roadshow events, which will offer further engagement opportunities on the SEP; an event that was held on 5 November for around 170 partners and delivery organisations on both the SEP and our ESIF strategy. We have also held a series of themed workshops which discussed relevant issues and helped to refine the priorities in both our ESIF Strategy and our SEP. Themes included small and medium enterprises (SME) competitiveness, access to finance, employment and innovation.On 26 November 2013, the LEP hosted an innovation workshop at AGFA, Leeds: ‘Roadmap to a more innovative Leeds City Region’. Over 100 delegates attended on the day, two thirds of whom were SMEs, to debate the emerging findings of our new smart specialisation strategy. Universities and local authority partners were also represented. Feedback from the day and subsequent extensive Twitter engagement has led to some refinement of the strategy and proposed interventions in the SEP; online consultation, via our website and social media, have enabled interested parties to contribute their views. As well as overall online consultation on our SEP, digital and social media consultation has focused on specific issues including innovation in the City Region and our economic narrative. Together, these online consultations generated a significant response, including achieving over 560,000 Twitter impressions; speaking to individual business leaders and representatives of business groups such as Chambers of Commerce, Federation of Small Businesses, and Institute of Directors and through a series of one to one meetings and roundtable events; and 7 engagement with local Members of Parliament in our SEP process. The LEP Chair has had the opportunity to discuss our SEP with senior government ministers, and we have also attended two meetings of the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire All Party Parliamentary Group during the SEP’s development. By engaging so widely, we believe we have produced the strongest possible SEP, and that it is a Plan that has broad support across the business community as well as our local authority and other partners.
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