...and these were our five points to address: 1. Review your Combined Authority/sub-regional and local economic strategies. Ensure their evidence-base is current. Establish what will be needed to refresh them to address national economic and industrial priorities and future Local Growth Plan requirements. 2. Identify major projects that are unequivocally of national significance and likely to be Government priorities. Update their business cases and make them as investment-ready as possible – including determining options for addressing barriers to their delivery. 3. For priority regional and local interventions that might not be on a national priority short-list, consider options for progressing them. Build preferred options into policy negotiations with Government on the next stages of devolution. 4. Reaffirm your approaches to green/blue and inclusive growth – and particularly how your policies will deliver benefits for left-behind communities and disadvantaged groups. 5. Identify development finance options for delivering national, regional and local growth – including your ask of National Wealth Fund, other public investment, and your areas’ ability to attract local and global private capital and revenue funding. An intimidating agenda - but just imagine how confident you will be in discussions with the new government if you make major progress on all of those when you sit down for your next round of devolution discussions with Government...
Chief Executive, Third Life Economics; Visiting Professor, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS)
https://lnkd.in/ePMPigjT The bills announced in the #KingsSpeech will stimulate a flurry of #LED and #placemaking work - some new and some updating existing material - between now and the Budget. Mike Spicer and I considered the post-#GE24 policy agendas in our #LEDConfidential monthly round up and suggested five key tasks in anticipation of the Kings Speech in this blog. They are still now entirely relevant, but are they your priority five? Please let us know...