Regeneration in Yorkshire and Humber

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Regeneration in Yorkshire and Humber

• Trevor Shaw
• Executive Director, Finance
• Yorkshire Forward

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What is Yorkshire Forward?

• Yorkshire Forward is the Regional Development
  Agency within Yorkshire and the Humber, a
  Non-Departmental Public Body established by the
  Regional Development Agency Act in 1998. The
  Agency is tasked with 5 key purposes
• to further the economic development and the
  regeneration of its area
• to promote business efficiency, investment and
  competiveness in its area
• to promote employment in its area
• to enhance the development and application of
  skills relevant to employment in its area and
• to contribute to the achievement of sustainable
  development in the UK where it is relevant to its
  area to do so
• In order to achieve the above, the Agency is
  tasked with a 6th purpose to formulate, and keep
  under review a strategy in relation to its
  purpose. The RDAs achieve this through the
  production of the Regional Economic Strategy, a
  document produced by the RDAs, but owned by the
  Region

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Regeneration in Yorkshire and Humber

• Yorkshire and Humber has benefited over the last
  seven years from coherent and holistic
  regeneration programmes within its major urban
  areas, towns and local centres and within its
  myriad of rural communities.
• With our local authority partners and other
  stakeholders, we are involved in 16 major urban
  regeneration programmes, regenerating 24 market
  towns and a key partner in 22 rural renaissance
  schemes.

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Yorkshire Forward Spend and Outputs 1999/2006
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Top Regeneration Success Stories

• Sheffield Yorkshire Forward, working closely
  with Sheffield City Council, is a key partner in
  the ongoing transformation of Sheffield. Through
  projects like the Winter Gardens, the Heart of
  the City and (most recently) Sheaf Square, we are
  successfully changing the outlook for Sheffield,
  with over 1bn of investment already secured.
• Barnsley The remaking Barnsley programme is to
  ambitiously redevelop the whole of Barnsley town
  centre over the next decade. Initial projects are
  already under way, with the towns new transport
  interchange due to be completed in 2008 and the
  development of its new markets districts due soon
  afterwards.
• Scarborough Scarborough is currently undergoing
  a redevelopment of 18 strategic sites across the
  town. Three of these sites have recently been
  completed, including the new look Trafalgar
  square and the South Bay Pool star map. A new
  museum, shopping centre, redeveloped harbour and
  business park are all due to be completed in
  2008.

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Top Regeneration Success Stories

• Bradford Bradford is currently in the middle of
  its most significant physical development in 30
  years. Centred on an internationally recognised
  masterplan, the city currently has 500 million
  of approved development being undertaken, with a
  further 1.5bn under negotiation.
• Leeds Working closely with Leeds City Council,
  Yorkshire Forward is jointly taking forward the
  development of Holbeck Urban Village and
  assisting in the continued development of Leeds
  City Centre. Key projects like Tower Works, the
  Carriageworks and the redevelopment of Briggate
  are adding and complementing Leeds existing offer
  and reinforcing its role as the financial capital
  of the North.
• Hull Hull Citybuild, working with Yorkshire
  Forward and Hull City Council, has managed to
  secure 670 million of additional investment into
  Hull over the last five years, with a 50
  increase in commercial planning applications. New
  developments like St Stephens are indicative of
  the change in fortunes occurring within the city,
  with 840 million of further development
  currently planned.

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• Leeds

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Barnsley
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Not just about buildings.

• Though Yorkshire Forward is fully committed to
  the physical development of its regions cities,
  towns and rural places, it is also vital to
  ensure that development ensures sustainability
  and inclusion and that our approach to
  regeneration is holistic in nature. This is
  achieved through our wider complement of
  activity, which includes
• Jobs Yorkshire Forward is currently undertaking
  a range of worklessness pilots across our most
  deprived communities, attempting to link those
  who want to work back into the employment
  opportunities created by our renaissance
  activity. Pilots are currently active in South
  Yorkshire, Hull and Bradford.
• Communities Yorkshire Forward is working with
  its voluntary and community sector partners to
  support a range of community based economic
  activities across the region, from social
  enterprises to childcare services, from
  employment support to basic skills training.
• The Environment Working with our environmental
  partners, Yorkshire Forward is leading on
  developing exemplar developments on emissions and
  energy efficiency across Yorkshire and Humber.
• Transport Through working closely with DfT and
  its stakeholders, Yorkshire Forward is
  strategically investing in increasing capacity
  and quality on the regions rail and public
  transport networks, better and more sustainably
  linking our core cities and key economic assets.
• The Knowledge Economy Yorkshire Forward is
  leading with its private sector partners in the
  development of both our regions highest value
  sectors and its world class knowledge base.
  Projects like the Advanced Manufacturing Park,
  our regions 11 Centres of Industrial
  Collaboration and the development of Science City
  in York are all contributing to the continued
  shift of our economy up the international value
  chain.

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Regional Funding Allocations in Yorkshire and the
Humber 2005 - 2008

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Challenges for the Future?- CSR07- SNR
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Objectives for Sub-National Review (SNR)

• To identify ahead of CSR 07 how to better
  increase economic potential of English regions,
  cities and localities and to more effectively
  respond to the ongoing challenge of tackling
  pockets of deprivation to
• strengthen economic growth in all regions and to
  reduce disparities in support of the regional
  PSA and
• Deliver regeneration and neighbourhood renewal
  to meet objectives set out in the neighbourhood
  renewal PSA.

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What is SNR likely to focus on?

• Strengthen local authority incentives and powers
  to improve economic outcomes
• Develop mechanisms to drive sub-regional
  collaboration across functional economic areas
• Improve the economic planning and decision-making
  processes at the regional level
• Ensure clearer integration between regenerating
  deprived areas and meeting economic objectives
  and
• Improve the interface between the public and
  private sectors

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Local Government Accountability

• Earlier this year, the English Regions Network
  submission to the SNR called for greater
  involvement by local councils at the regional
  level to improve leadership and accountability.

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Engineering Employers Federation response to SNR

• It does not seem sensible to us that these
  regional bodies (RDAs) are asked to look at
  improved economic performance and yet have no
  remit over transport, skills or planning.

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Other Comments

• Various partners and thinks tanks have put
  forward a variety of solutions to achieve this
  goal. The New Local Government Network (NLGN),
  for instance, has suggested nine models which
  could be considered within the regions, both
  simplifying structure and creating new
  efficiencies. These range from the current status
  quo to a governor for Yorkshire, responsible for
  some form of Regional Executive Agency (an RDA).

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Regional Government Too Complex?

• The Audit Commissions submission to the
  ongoing Sub-National Review of Economic
  Development and Regeneration (SNR) has said
  that regional government is complex and
  confusing. The submission says roles and
  responsibilities need to be clarified, while
  incentives are needed to encourage regional and
  sub-regional bodies to work together.

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Government responses to Report on Future of
Regional Government

• The Government welcomes the Committees
  endorsement of the Regional Funding Allocations
  (RFA) process. It believes the exercise did
  indeed significantly enhance the influence of
  regional stakeholders over long term public
  spending decisions. For example, the fact that
  the Department for Transports (DfT) July 2006
  responses largely accepted each regions advice
  provides concrete evidence of the exercises
  impact. Preparations for a second RFA transport
  round are already underway.

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Government responses to Report on Future of
Regional Government

• In their formal responses to the regions in
  August 2006 Communities and Local Government,
  DfT, Department for Trade and Industry and HM
  Treasury Ministers undertook to consider
  extending the scope of the Regional Funding
  Allocations exercise to other expenditure streams
  as part of the wider discussions in the Sub
  National Review. The outcome of these
  discussions will be announced as part of CSR 07.

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Government responses to Report on Future of
Regional Government

• The Sub National Review is also looking at ways
  to continue developing regional accountability.
  The Government, however, believes it is important
  not to confuse scrutiny with either day-to-day
  management and expenditure responsibilities of
  RDA Boards and their Chief Executives or with
  wider parliamentary accountability.

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Future of Regeneration? Business as Usual

• It is likely that in the upcoming Comprehensive
  Spending Review or Sub-National Review will see
  changes to the way that the sub-national level
  carries out regeneration activity, with a mix of
  new roles and responsibilities and potentially
  new or merged agencies.
• However, the basic plans and structures to take
  forward regeneration activity across Yorkshire
  and the Humber are now in place, with shared
  responsibilities between local, sub-regional and
  regional partners. Regardless of structural
  changes to come, it seems likely that the
  approach to renaissance and regeneration in the
  region is now set for the foreseeable future.