Have Your Say on Greater Lincolnshire’s Local Industrial Strategy
Do you want to help shape the future the Greater Lincolnshire economy?
To kick off the new year, the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership is calling for businesses, public sector organisations, education providers, councils and third parties to submit their views on the evidence base used to develop the Local Industrial Strategy last month.
As part of the process, the LEP wants to hear from stakeholders across Greater Lincolnshire.
The call has been made after the LEP was given the go-ahead by the Government to develop its own Local Industrial Strategy last month.
Once implemented next year, the Local Industrial Strategy will set out the LEP’s economic priorities through to 2030 and beyond.
Ruth Carver, LEP Director, commented: “Our Local Industrial Strategy will transform the Greater Lincolnshire economy, so it’s important we take on board the views of the area’s businesses and organisations.
“This call for evidence is a very important step in ensuring our Local Industrial Strategy matches the needs and priorities of our economy. The feedback we receive will help us to make a compelling case to the Government and private sector when attracting investment into the area.
“The Local Industrial Strategy is a long-term strategy to support our growing business sectors and we will also be refreshing our Strategic Economic Plan over this year.”
As part of the strategy’s development, the LEP has published two new documents:
- Lincolnshire’s Evolving Opportunities – this will highlight many compelling opportunities within the Greater Lincolnshire economy
- Local Industrial Strategy: Framework – a summary of the findings from the evidence-gathering phase
Following stakeholder input, the LEP expects to produce the first version of a local industrial strategy by the summer of 2019 for further discussion.
To have your say, you can submit your response directly through the LEP’s website here.
For more information, the LEP encourages those responding to review the documents before answering one or more of the questions.
The LEP will also be hosting several workshops across the area to seek further input and information on these will be announced soon.
The closing date for responses is 1st March 2019.
Notes for editors:
- The UK’s Industrial Strategy white paper was published by the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in November 2017.
- The Government’s Local Industrial Strategy Policy Prospectus, outlining the vision for Local Industrial Strategies, was published in October 2018.
- The Greater Lincolnshire LEP was set up in 2010 and works with businesses and local authorities to develop and grow Greater Lincolnshire’s diverse economy.
- It is a public / private partnership led by the private sector.
- It works with central government and the private sector to invest in infrastructure, skills, innovation and productivity.
- More than 100 businesses are involved in its strategies, and 80 business people sit on its boards.
- The LEP has an ambitious and balanced strategic economic growth plan for Greater Lincolnshire.
- The LEP’s six priority sectors are agri-food, the visitor economy, manufacturing, logistics, health and care and low-carbon energy.
- The LEP has invested £307 million in local economic growth schemes in Greater Lincolnshire since 2014.
- The Greater Lincolnshire LEP covers an area including North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and the administrative county of Lincolnshire and is led by a LEP board made up of leading figures in the public and private sector.
- To find out more visitor follow the LEP on Twitter: @greaterlincslep.
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