Issue - meetings

Report No:   CAB/SE/17/054 TO FOLLOW

Portfolio Holder: Alaric Pugh           Lead Officer: Andrea Mayley

RESOLVED:

That:

(1)     the Norfolk and Suffolk Economic Strategy be endorsed, as contained in Appendix A to Report No: CAB/SE/17/054, as guidance to support the strategy for growth in West Suffolk; and

(2)     the next steps for the delivery of outcomes for West Suffolk communities be agreed, as set out in Section 3 of Report No; CAB/SE/17/054. 

The Cabinet considered Report No: CAB/SE/17/054, which sought endorsement of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s (NALEP) Norfolk and Suffolk Economic Strategy.

Local authorities, businesses, universities and colleges had been working together with NALEP to develop a new economic strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk, the final version of which was attached as Appendix A. Itprovided a clear and comprehensive framework for the next steps towards delivery.

Section 3 of the report provided details regarding the implications the content of the strategy would specifically have on West Suffolk.  Paragraphs 3.5 to 3.27 inclusive explained the contribution West Suffolk could make to achieving the aims and also what impact those aims would have.

Councillor Alaric Pugh, Portfolio Holder for Planning and Growth, drew relevant issues to the attention of Cabinet including that the benefits of this Strategy were recognised in setting out the ambitions for the East (of England).  It was complementary to West Suffolk’s own aspirations in terms of delivery without being inhibiting, as described in the report.

RESOLVED:

That:

(1)     the Norfolk and Suffolk Economic Strategy be endorsed, as contained in Appendix A to Report No: CAB/SE/17/054, as guidance to support the strategy for growth in West Suffolk; and

(2)     the next steps for the delivery of outcomes for West Suffolk communities be agreed, as set out in Section 3 of Report No; CAB/SE/17/054.