The Role and Achievements of Tees Valley Unlimited

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The Role and Achievements of Tees Valley
Unlimited

• Ada Burns, Chief Executive,
• Darlington Borough Council

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What is a city region?

• Its not a new tier of government
• Its not a talking shop
• Its not going to take local determination away
  from your Council
• It is the way in which economies work
• It reflects travel to work patterns, supply
  chains, labour pools, communications.
• It describes the inter-relationship between the
  economies of the five boroughs

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Why is Tees Valley a city region?

• Polycentric a word for the jargon lovers
• An economy reaching 875,000 people
• Common labour market, housing market and retail
  catchment areas

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Strong History of Joint Working

• Nothing new in our collaboration
• 1996 Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit
• 2000 The Tees Valley Partnership
• 2001 Tees Valley Baseline and
• Scenario Study (GHK)
• 2003 Tees Valley Living
• 2005 Tees Valley Vision

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By working together across the Tees Valley we
can..

• Exploit our unique assets to improve our economic
  performance
• Create the conditions for business to bring
  prosperity for our citizens
• Create places where people want to live, work and
  invest

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Our Economic Assets

• 3rd largest Port in the United Kingdom Teesport
• 2nd largest Petrochemical Complex in the UK
• Advanced Engineering Industry e.g. Amec,
  Cleveland Bridge, Whessoe
• Europes largest, non-military research centre at
  Wilton

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Continued growth even in a time of recession

• Worlds largest polyethylene plant, produced by
  SABIC, will open at Wilton in 2009
• Europes largest wheat based bioethanol plant,
  also at Wilton, being constructed by ENSUS
• The establishment of the National Skills Academy
  for the Process Industry at the University of
  Teesside

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4 billion of large investment projects in the
pipeline in renewable energy and biofuels
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Excellent transport connections

• Good road connections A1, A19
• East Coast Main Line
• Durham Tees Valley Airport
• links to Heathrow, Amsterdam
• Freight connections through the Port
• to Europe and Asia

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Vibrant and diverse landscape towns
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Whats been achieved

• Reversed the trend in Gross Value Added, and
  narrowed the gap between Tees Valley and the rest
  of the country.
• Reversed the decline in population .
• More jobs (35,000 over mid 1990s) less
  unemployment.
• 16 more businesses since 2000.
• 28 increase in earnings of full-time workers
  since 2000.
• Rise of over 30 in tourist visitor numbers since
  2003.
• Narrowing of the skills gap for Levels 2 , 3 and
  above.
• 11,500 new homes in the last 5 years.
• Major investment in our town centres, in parks
  the public Realm.
• National reputation for ambition and partnership

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Middlesbrough College opened in September
2008, on time and within budget
and a central part of Middlehaven
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• Further growth of office development in
  Darlington at Lingfield Point

and the new Darlington College at Central Park
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PD Ports has planning permission for a deep sea
container terminal which could provide 5,000 jobs
in the long term
Walmart Tesco are making their mark on Teesport
by developing import centres that will
employ1,000 people
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Hartlepool Marina is planning ahead for the Tall
Ships in 2010
Able UKs Teesside Environmental Reclamation
Recycling Centre facility at Seaton Port
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Planning consent for the Skylink International
Business Park at Durham Tees Valley Airport
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Stocktons Infinity Bridge nears completion,
as100 architects applied to the RIBA 'Make me a
Home' competition for North Shore.
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July 2008 The Multi-Area Agreement

• A means of using public funding efficiently to
  create
• The right conditions for growth
• A joined up approach to regeneration housing,
  transport, places.
• The scope to respond locally to opportunities
  or to unforeseen events
• Better quality of place and better connectivity
  for our residents and for investors
• Covers 4 place-making funding streams
• One NorthEast Single Programme
• Housing Market Renewal Programme from CLG
• Housing Growth Point Initiative
• Transport RFA allocation from DfT

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How would it work

• We would have
• A five year investment plan
• A common appraisal system
• Ability to re-profile funds between years to
  respond to local needs and opportunities
• Local decision making on schemes and funds
• Ability to move funding within between capital
  programmes

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Pre-budget report City Region Forerunner Pilots

• Already made good progress implementing the MAA
  Common appraisal system trial from March 09
• Housing funds managed to respond to current
  market conditions
• Investment Plan being negotiated with ONE BUT
  reduced allocations
• Pilot bid allows progress on local decision
  making, forward planning and 5 year plan.

27th February 2009 Submitting our proposal to
become a City Region Forerunner.
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Tees Valley Unlimited
Governance
A New Way of Joint Working through MAAs
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What can we deliver for Tees Valley

• Infrastructure to enable 4 billion of private
  sector investment to deliver jobs
• Better quality places for future investors
• Progress in tackling worklessness
• Progress in building a bigger pool of people with
  high level skills
• Ready for recovery

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In Summary

• We have come a long way in 30 months since the
  Business Case was published
• We continue to achieve real outcomes for the Tees
  Valley and its communities
• We need to be able to take advantage of the
  upturn with sites and infrastructure ready for
  development
• The Tees Valley continues to move forwards with
  strong leadership from the Local Authorities and
  politicians
• Looking to the future, the economic downturn
  should not deviate us from our overall ambition

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The Role and Achievements of Tees Valley
Unlimited

• Ada Burns, Chief Executive,
• Darlington Borough Council