Greater Brighton Economic Board 2015-16 Annual Report
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13 Greater Brighton Economic Board Annual Report 2015/16 1 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2015/16 This year marked the Greater Brighton 5 Local Authorities Economic Board’s second year of operation Adur District Council Brighton & Hove City Council and, under the excellent chairmanship Lewes District Council of Councillor Neil Parkin, the partnership Mid Sussex District Council Worthing Borough Council continued to develop and mature. 3 Business Partnerships The purpose of the Greater Brighton Economic Board (‘the Board’) Adur & Worthing Business Partnership is to protect and grow the Greater Brighton Economy. By bringing Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership together all of the City Region’s key ‘players’ as a formally constituted Coastal West Sussex Partnership partnership, the Board is able to formulate economic policy and coordinate economic activities and investment at City Region level. 2 Universities The aspiration of the Board is for Greater Brighton to become the University of Brighton 14 South East’s most successful economy, connected to London. The University of Sussex Board’s strategy for growth is to raise the City Region’s productivity – whilst comparable to the UK average; this is not where it should be 4 Further Education Colleges when considering the area’s proximity to London, its rich asset base and its highly skilled workforce. City College Brighton and Hove Northbrook College The focus of the Board is to create the right balance in the City Region Plumpton College economy, between traditional and coastal industries such as tourism, Sussex Downs College retail and the public sector (which currently provide over 50% of all jobs in Greater Brighton) and modern, high-tech and high-value industries in Local Enterprise Partnership key growth sectors. For Greater Brighton, these sectors are: Creative Digital and IT; Low Carbon and Environmental Goods and Services; Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership Advanced Engineering in marine, aviation, automotive, defence and electronics, and; Health and Life Sciences. National Park Authority South Downs National Park Authority 2 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2015/16 Gatwick M23 To support the City Region in reaching East Grinstead its economic potential, the Board works A23 collectively to build on its economic assets Crawley and unblock its barriers to growth by: Greater Brighton is home to 695,800 people, 445,800 of whom are of working age. There are 29,490 VAT/ Shaping and delivering the Greater Brighton PAYE businesses Investment Programme; a co-ordinated Horsham located within Greater Balcombe programme of regeneration and infrastructure Brighton – an 8.1% projects that support the creation of a The City Region provides increase since last network of high-value growth centres in key 278,500 jobs – 3,400 more Mid-Sussex District year, with a total locations across the City Region that deliver than last year. The Centre new jobs, employment floorspace and homes of 34,640 active for Cities has rated Greater Haywards Heath business units. Brighton in the top 5 for jobs Continually developing a programme of growth in the last 10 years and future delivery through the A23 Uckfield Greater Brighton 37,000 more jobs are expected and securing the necessary 15 Project Pipeline funding and investment to unlock these to be created by 2030. Burgess Hill projects, primarily via the Local Growth Fund East Sussex Henfield Developing and implementing City Region Hassocks policy and initiatives and South Downs National Park securing new local Barcombe flexibilities, freedoms and funding in the key Plumpton areas needed to drive growth and increase Pyecombe South Downs National Park Steyning Ringmer productivity: strategic transport; local Fulking West Sussex Lewes District Lewes Patcham transport infrastructure; housing and growth Glyndebourne sites; skills for employment; enterprise and smart specialisation, and; digital. Shoreham Brighton Kingston by Sea & Hove Adur South Downs National Park A27 Lancing Sompting Shoreham Portslade Worthing by Sea Rottingdean Peacehaven Biosphere border A259 Newhaven 3 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2015/16 At the start of this year, the Board strengthened highly skilled workforce. Through its devolution new starts per 10,000 working-age residents – its evidence base on the Greater Brighton proposals, the Board has committed to the highest start-up rates per head of population economy, housing market and transport delivering 22,500 homes in the next 10 years outside of London. However, 2,945 businesses system. This evidence endorsed the notion of – while within existing Local Plan numbers, this failed in the same year and while the business Greater Brighton as a true functional economic represents a 55% increase in the current rate failure rate dropped from 65.9 to 63.4 per market area and the Board’s polycentric of completions. To achieve this, the Board is 10,000 working age residents, there is a clear approach to growth. doing all that it can to find and bring forward need to provide relevant and practical business sites, deal with blockages such as transport and support within the City Region; other infrastructure, ensure a flow of finance and Greater Brighton & Coastal developing new delivery mechanisms; for the City West Sussex Background Papers Putting in place specialist support Background Paper 1 Economy Region’s high growth sectors – Creative Digital May 2015 Greater Brighton & Coastal West Sussex Background Papers Targeting investment and putting in place and IT; Low Carbon and Environmental Goods Background Paper 2 Housing Market the infrastructure to unlock the City Region’s and Services; Advanced Engineering, and; May 2015 Greater Brighton & Coastal key growth centres, to build new homes and Health and Life Sciences, to raise productivity West Sussex Background Papers Background Paper 3 Transport System regenerate communities and to create much and output and create more graduate and May 2015 needed employment floorspace and jobs so high-value jobs, thereby reducing levels of that businesses can locate and grow within under-employment and out-commuting, and; 16 the Greater Brighton and that the benefits of high-growth clusters and innovation are spread Improving transport infrastructure and across the City Region; developing effective transport networks, to reduce congestion and increase access to Creating skills for employment, to meet employment, learning and products and the growth needs of the City Region’s services whilst also improving air quality. businesses and to give all residents equal access to education, training and employment The role of the Board is to develop a opportunities; Throughout this year, the Board has continued complementary growth offer across all parts of to tackle these medium to long-term objectives the City Region and to support this by: Developing a coherent package of enterprise by progressing three key areas of work: support for all businesses across the City Region, providing the right tools and support 1 The Greater Brighton Investment Programme Enabling delivery of the City Region’s ambitious – from digital connectivity to business finance – housing plans, broadening the choice and for them to survive and thrive. Greater Brighton 2 The Greater Brighton Project Pipeline and affordability of housing types across Greater is an entrepreneurial place, with 4,235 new Growth Deal Round 3 Funding Applications Brighton to meet the needs of different groups businesses having formed in 2014. Business and varying life stages and thereby retain its start-up rates also improved, from 88.3 to 88.9 3 The Greater Brighton Bid for Devolution 4 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2015/16 Gatwick M23 East Grinstead A23 Crawley Horsham Balcombe Mid-Sussex District Haywards Heath Gatwick M23 East Grinstead A23 A23 Crawley Uckfield Burgess Hill East Sussex Henfield Horsham Balcombe Hassocks South Downs National Park Mid-SussexBarcombe District Plumpton Haywards Heath Steyning Ringmer West Sussex Lewes The Greater Brighton A23 Glyndebourne Uckfield 3 15 Investment Programme Burgess Shoreham 4 Hill by Sea Brighton Overseeing the delivery of a co- 1&2 East Sussex Adur & Hove 5Henfield ordinated programme of regeneration 9 A27 Lancing Hassocks and infrastructure projects that support South Downs National Park 6 Sompting Shoreham Barcombe the creationWorthing of a network of high-value Plumpton growth centres in key locations across Pyecombe South Downs National Park Steyning Ringmer Fulking Peacehaven the City Region West Sussex Lewes District Lewes Patcham Glyndebourne Biosphere border A259 Shoreham BrightonNewhaven Kingston The Board has been enormously successful by Sea & Hove Adur 13 in obtaining Government funding – through 12 7 8 South Downs National Park A27 Lancing both the Greater Brighton City Deal and the Sompting Shoreham Portslade 17 Worthing 14 by Sea Coast to Capital Growth Deal – for projects within the Investment Programme. A total of Rottingdean Peacehaven approximately £90m was allocated to projects 10 11 Biosphere border A259 across the City Region. Newhaven These projects will deliver a total investment of approximately £376m into the City Region, unlocking an estimated 14,000 jobs, 8,200 homes and 450,000sqm of employment 1. New England House Creative Tech 8. Brighton & Hove Intelligent Transport floorspace. Growth Centre Systems Package 2. Digital Catapult Centre Brighton and 5G 9. Brighton Valley Gardens An overview of each