Greater Brighton Economic Board Annual Report 2016/17 CITY REGION HIGHLIGHTS OUR FUTURE Our Barriers to Growth TOP TOP TOPfor jobs growth 5 10 over last 10 years urban life Highest start-up rates satisfaction for qualified per head of population levels workforce outside London Housing Transport Digital Infrastructure Inequality Our Opportunities for Growth OUR SUCCESSES SO FAR Over Advanced Engineering Building Delivering 750,000m2 & Quantum Technology Flood 30active Creative Digital employment projects & IT £1bn & defences floor space Health & expected to Life Sciences Making double Unlocking better use £ in next... Low Carbon Environmental £2bn of our assets Goods & Services in private sector Modernising Our Future City Region investment our town Quality, affordable homes to buy or rent centres 5years SMART transport systems Less congestion ? Knowledge intensive growth Improving Space for businesses to grow our road Creating Building Inclusive growth network 24,000 18,000 Ultrafast broadband for businesses and homes jobs homes Better air quality 2 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2016/17 The Greater Brighton Economic Board (‘the Board’) 6 Local Authorities was formed as part of the City Region’s 2014 Adur District Council Brighton & Hove City Council City Deal with Government. This year marked Crawley Borough Council Lewes District Council the Board’s third year of operation and, under Mid Sussex District Council the Leadership of Councillor Daniel Humphreys Worthing Borough Council and Councillor Andy Smith, the partnership has 3 Business Partnerships continued to develop and mature. Adur & Worthing Business Partnership Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership The aim of the Board is to protect and grow the Greater Brighton economy. Coastal West Sussex Partnership By bringing together all of the City Region’s key stakeholders as a formally constituted partnership, the Board is able to co-ordinate economic 2 Universities development and investment activities across the City Region. Only by working collaboratively to maximise the opportunities and remove the University of Brighton blockers for growth will the City Region fulfil its full economic potential. University of Sussex The Board believes that the creation of the Southern Accelerator, similar 3 Further Education Colleges to the Northern Powerhouse and the Midlands Engine, would provide an Greater Brighton Metropolitan College overarching vision for the region within which other structures, strategies Plumpton College and bids would sit. With relatively modest interventions in the City Region’s Sussex Downs College road, rail and digital infrastructure and with the tools to unlock the essential housing and employment floorspace, Greater Brighton can deliver improved productivity and growth. Local Enterprise Partnership Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership The focus of the Board is to create the right balance in the City Region economy, between traditional and coastal industries such as tourism, National Park Authority 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 key South Downs National Park Authority growth sectors. For Greater Brighton, these sectors are: Creative Digital and IT; Low Carbon and Environmental Goods and Services; Advanced Gatwick Airport Ltd Engineering in marine, aviation, automotive, defence and electronics, and; Health and Life Sciences. 3 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2016/17 To support the City Region reaching its • Targeting and directing investment into Throughout this year, the Board has continued economic potential, the Board works infrastructure to unlock the City Region’s to tackle these medium to long-term objectives collectively to build on its economic assets and key growth centres, to build new homes by progressing five key areas of work: unblock its barriers to growth by; and regenerate communities and to create 1 Greater Brighton’s offer to Government – much needed employment floorspace so • Shaping and delivering the Greater Brighton Enabling the Industrial Strategy Investment Programme; a co-ordinated that businesses can locate and grow within 2 The Greater Brighton One Public Estate programme of regeneration and infrastructure Greater Brighton, spreading the benefits of Programme that supports the creating of a network in high- high growth clusters and innovation across value growth centres in key locations across the the City Region; 3 The Greater Brighton Investment City Region that deliver new jobs, investment, • Creating skills for employment, to meet the Programme LGF Growth Deal Rounds 1& 2 employment floorspace and homes growth needs of the City Region’s businesses 4 The Greater Brighton Investment • Continually developing a programme of future and to give all residents equal access Programme LGF Growth Deal Round delivery through the Greater Brighton Project to education, training and employment 3 Funding opportunities; pipeline and securing the necessary funding 5 The Greater Brighton Project Pipeline and investment to unlock these projects, • Developing a coherent package of enterprise and Growth Deal Projects from primarily via the Local Growth Fund (LGF) support for all businesses across the City Unallocated Funds Rounds 1 & 2 • Developing and implementing City Region Region, providing the right tools and support policy and initiatives and securing new local – from digital connectivity to business finance In 2015, Greater Brighton started a dialogue flexibilities, freedoms and funding in the key – for them to survive and thrive. with the Government about how we could areas needed to drive growth and increase • Putting in place specialist support for the deliver more if the Government devolved productivity: strategic transport; local City Region’s high growth sectors – Creative further powers and funds to the City Region. transport infrastructure; housing and growth Digital and IT; Low Carbon and Environmental This led to the development of the Greater sites; skills for employment; enterprise and Good and Services; Advanced Engineering, Brighton Devolution Prospectus, published smart specialisation, and; digital. and; Health and Life Sciences, to raise in September 2015, which was followed by productivity and output and create more Ministerial and Government official challenge The role of the Board is to develop a sessions in January 2016. complementary growth offer across all parts of graduate and high-value jobs and thereby the City Region and to support this by: reduce levels of under-employment and out- commuting, and; Towards the end of 2016 we reviewed the • Enabling delivery of the City Region’s Devolution Prospectus, and in January 2017 • Improving transport infrastructure and ambitious housing plans, broadening the we published the Greater Brighton City developing effective transport networks, to choice and affordability of housing types Region Revised Devolution Proposal, which across Greater Brighton to meet the needs of reduce congestion and increase access to restated what the City Region is offering to do, different groups and varying life stages and employment, learning and products and and the help that is needed from Government thereby retain its highly skilled workforce; services whilst also improving air quality. to deliver our ambitious programme. 4 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2016/17 Welcome to Crawley and Gatwick Greater Brighton is home to 820,000 people, 525,700 of For the first time since the Board was whom are of working age There are 35,565 established, the membership will soon be VAT/PAYE businesses extended, with Crawley Borough Council located within Greater and Gatwick Airport Ltd being invited to Brighton join during the summer. The Centre for Cities has rated Greater The City Crawley is home to around 111,000 people and Brighton in the top 5 for Region provides to over 3,000 active businesses. Gatwick Airport jobs growth in the last is one of the South East’s most high profile and 360,000 jobs 10 years and 48,000 important anchor businesses, with 24,000 direct employees and 13,000 indirect employees from more jobs are expected across the region. It is a major investor in growth to be created by 2030 – having invested £1.3bn since 2009 with plans to invest a further £1.2bn before 2021. Extending the membership to Crawley and Gatwick Airport presents Greater Brighton with tremendous opportunities in relation to economic regeneration, growth and strategic presence. It will allow the Board to focus on the A23/M23 growth corridor – linking Brighton, Gatwick and London. The corridor has been identified as one of nine in England to have been at the heart of growth over the last decade and likely to maintain a pivotal role in shaping growth in the future. This will strengthen the Greater Brighton voice to Government and the case for continued investment – both public and private. 5 Greater Brighton Economic Board | Annual Report 2016/17 3 City Halls for Business - Creating the right institutions to bring Greater Brighton’s offer to Government – together sector and places Enabling the Industrial Strategy The Board is ready to pilot a ‘City Halls for Business´ model, using Brighton’s Town Hall as a multi-agency hub to support business The Greater Brighton Economic Board welcomed the growth, attract inward investment and promote trade. publication of Government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper and the renewed emphasis on improving productivity