LEP seeks feedback on new strategy
The York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership (YNYER LEP) has launched an online consultation to gather views on a major plan for growth.
Following a public engagement programme in 2019 to identify priorities, the YNYER LEP has now written a first draft of its Local Industrial Strategy. The strategy is due to be submitted to the UK Government in March. It will determine the next 20 years of productivity and growth across the LEP’s economic area. Now, the LEP is inviting businesses and the public to comment on the draft vision and help to shape the final document.
David Kerfoot, chairman of the YNYER LEP, said: “The Local Industrial Strategy presents an unrivalled opportunity to reinvent and rebalance our economy. It will transform our economy through greater use of digital technology, and create clean growth based on our natural assets in rural and coastal areas in combination with our innovation assets in York.”
“We need to make more of everyone’s potential to achieve a step change in our productivity. Ultimately, this will result in higher wages locally. We will do that by putting our people, their needs, well-being and potential at the centre of our approach.
“This type of Good Growth can only be delivered by good businesses. Collaboration within our business community will be the difference in leading the transformation of our local economy. The world is changing, demands on our economy are changing.
“What people want is business that is good – good for people, good for the planet and good for the growth and celebration of every place – whether that be the centre of a city, the deeply rural village or the small coastal town. We are creating a process to make that happen.”
The survey, can be accessed through the YNYER LEP’s website and is open until the end of January.
