Issue - meetings

(Report of Chief Executive)

The report set out the Borough Council’s response to the ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’ Green Paper consultation, which was submitted in advance of the deadline of 17 April 2017. 

A summary of the main points made were set out in paragraph 1.2.2 of the report, with the full consultation response attached as Annex 1.

Members welcomed the Green Paper and supported the aims and objectives of the strategy in stimulating economic growth and prosperity.  However, concern was expressed regarding the requirement for a national infrastructure policy that properly addressed the challenges arising from growth, the delivery of a credible skills and training agenda and the need for clarity regarding the role of the local partnerships and South East Local Enterprise Partnership in implementing the strategy.

Following consideration by the Economic Regeneration Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Economic Regeneration resolved that:

The consultation response to the ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’ green paper, set out in full in Annex 1 of the report, be endorsed.

Decision Notice D170049MEM

The report set out the Borough Council’s response to the ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’ Green Paper consultation, which was submitted in advance of the deadline of 17 April 2017. 

A summary of the main points made were set out in paragraph 1.2.2 of the report, with the full consultation response attached as Annex 1.

Members welcomed the Green Paper and supported the aims and objectives of the strategy in stimulating economic growth and prosperity. However, concern was expressed regarding the requirement for a national infrastructure policy that properly addressed the challenges arising from growth, the delivery of a credible skills and training agenda and the need for clarity regarding the role of the local partnerships and the South East Local Enterprise Partnership in implementing the strategy.

In addition, it was reported that funding had been secured for a Careers and Enterprise Adviser and an individual was expected to be in post by September 2017.  The Enterprise Adviser Network, as reported at the last meeting of the Economic Regeneration Advisory Board in February 2017, would be launched on 28 July.

RECOMMENDED: That the consultation response to the ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’ green paper, set out in full in Annex 1 of the report, be endorsed.