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North NDA Funding Priorities Hunterston About Past NDA Funding Employment NDA Funding Awards September 2019

Proposals for New AGD Overview Next Steps Caitriona McAuley, Head of Service, Funding Bids Economic Development & Regeneration Council

Hunterston Employment NDA Funding

• Current employment of: • To mitigate the impact of decommissioning on the • 300 at Hunterston A communities in which we operate through socio-economic • 500 at Hunterston B (impact to NA 1036 support jobs) • Funding available to improve education and skills • Highly skilled and paid employment provision or support local employment, economic • 72% of workforce resident in North Ayrshire diversification or social infrastructure (HNB) • Local/community funding, and funding for investment in • HNB decommissioning 2023 economic structure of area • HNA Care & Maintenance 2025 • Around £15M distributed annually, although around half of this provided to Sellafield on basis of its scale and impact on local area

Past NDA Funding Future NDA Funding

• Hunterston a high priority site within socio • Need for applications to fit with economic strategy for area economic strategy further to NAC promotion • NDA want to contribute to strategic projects with other funding partners of case for area • Projects that deliver transformational change • Previous funding awards in 2015 for: • Suggested future priorities fit with agreed Council priorities • Millport Field Centre £300,000 as part of the Ayrshire Growth Deal, the Local • Quayside Offices £375,000 Development Plan and emerging regeneration plans. • Youth Employment Scheme £250,000 • Mix of economic, social and environmental regeneration that deliver on job creation and placemaking projects • Advice at time to defer further applications • Mix of sectors through business, academic partnerships, commercial, leisure, tourism, etc

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AGD Overview Themes

• Heads of Terms signed March 2019 – ’s first non-city Deal Vision for Ayrshire to be vibrant, outward looking, confident, attractive to • Under development since 2015 investors and visitors, and for it to make a major contribution to Scotland • Commitment to £103m from both UK Government and and the wider UK’s growth. Scottish Government • Local authorities will match this up to up to £45.5m • Total deal £251m, over 15 years • Believe that these interventions will unlock private investment of around £300 million and deliver around 7,000 new jobs across a wide range of sectors

Hunterston - Environmental sustainability and circular economy

• £18m Lochshore • NDA funding sought for 2022-23 Hunterston • Partners incl Strathclyde University, Scottish Enterprise, Peelports • Focusing on 2 aspects: Marine Tourism Ardrossan C-NOW - Centre for Next-generation Offshore Wind C-REED - Centre for Research in Ecology and Great Harbour i3 Economic Development

Advanced Technology & Digital Automation Environmental Sustainability & Circular Economy Tourism & Creative Arts

Ardrossan Coastal Regeneration Lochshore • £120m+ investment programme • National scale regeneration project within • Former steelworks with associated loss of deprived area employment • Large number of nuclear industry staff resident • Site remains largely derelict within area • Ownership of Scottish Enterprise and NAC • Main components: • Proposals for major tourism and placemaking • Harbour investment project in Garnock Valley including: • Extended marina, Scotlands biggest • £3.5M Garnock Visitor and Community • New campus developing on North Shore site Hub comprising secondary, primary schools, • Pathworks including links to , swimming pool, library Garnock Campus, employment areas • Marine Sciences centre of excellence and station • Commercial leisure development • Kilbirnie Loch circular route • Coastal path • First phase would unlock longer term £7- • Hotel operator interest 8M investment and housing development • NDA Funding sought in 2021-22 • NDA Funding sought in 2020

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Next Steps

Progress Lochshore Ayrshire college NDA Socio bid for September proposal Economic Strategy 2020 start

Formalise a socio Identify specific NDA Monitor the economic funding opps at economic impact of partnership with Ardrossan and changes at HNA and NDA Hunterston HNB

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