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| newsletter update: AUGUST 2012 | |
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| Special Notice | |
| Upcoming LEP Network Chairs' Dinner and Summit Both of our LEP Chairs' events this year will be focussing on how the Network can evolve to better serve LEPs. Make sure your LEP Chair or senior board member is registered to the events! |
| | | | National/Policy News | |
| Defra creates toolkit to better the relationship between LEPs and the environment During 2011-12 the Defra-family (Defra, Natural England, the Environment Agency and Forestry Commission) have been developing a toolkit which is designed to support Local Enterprise Partnerships... | 
| County Councils Network looking for LEPs to share their views on City Deals The County Councils Network will put together a pamphlet in the Autumn drawing together a range of views on the future of City Deals. In particular this will look at the potential to extend them to different geographies, allowing more areas of England to benefit from the flexibility to deliver growth... |
| First Local Nature Partnerships announced The ambition for LNPs is that they will help their local area to manage the natural environment as a system and to embed its value in local decisions for the benefit of nature, people and the economy. To do this effectively they will need to be self-sustaining strategic partnerships of a broad range of local organisations... |
| fDi report looks into how well LEPs are faring A team of Financial Times investment analysts and experts, fDi Intelligence, has released a report looking into how well LEPs are faring and ranking them accordingly... |
| | | | LEP Life - news from around the Network | |
| Business to shape the future of local economy says Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough LEP Local businesses, social enterprises, voluntary organisations and the public sector are being asked for their views on how to support the growth of the local economy in the future... |
| Air Products to build the world's largest advanced gasification energy-from-waste facility in Tees Valley The Tees Valley plant, located at the New Energy and Technology Business Park, near Billingham, Teesside, will be the first of its kind in the UK, and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world with an approximate capacity of 50MW... | | Brand new website to market Dorset's investment opportunities
A major new website is being launched globally to promote Dorset as the place to do business Set up by the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership, www.investindorset.co.uk showcases Dorset... | | Slice of �10m for Hertfordshire towns Green Travel Schemes The Department for Transport has confirmed that Hertfordshire has successfully secured �9.7million from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) towards the BIGHERTSBIGIDEAS project... | | New Charter to deliver better regulation for businesses in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP
Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership is pioneering a new relationship between business and local regulators to help encourage economic growth... | | New Anglia programme launches to turn vision of companies into reality
A new programme to help companies with high growth potential expand launched today in Norfolk and Suffolk GrowthAccelerator is delivering tailor-made, cost-effective support packages... | | Gloucestershire LEP launches retail newsletter as part of its retail pathfinder scheme | | ENTERPRISE ZONE UPDATE: �10m science and research investment in Harlow welcomed by the South East LEP
The announcement by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, this week that a new national state-of-the-art medical research centre is to be opened in Harlow, Essex... |
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| | LEP Community: Forum | Have your say! Top discussion topics this month... ENTERPRISE ZONES COMMUNICATIONS FORUM: LEPs' role in Enterprise Zones
TOURISM: Visitor economy bulletin for LEPs
ENTERPRISE ZONES COMMUNICATIONS FORUM: Forecasting business rates relief uplift
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| | LEP Events | | APPG on Local Growth, LEPs and EZ first annual reception Parliamentary reception which will feature the launch of the report from the group’s recent inquiry into the effectiveness of LEPs. It will be hosted by the APPG's chair, Brandon Lewis MP... DCLG and LEP Network planning workshop Following recent interest in strategic planning and possible roles for LEPs, DCLG and the LEP Network have agreed to run a workshop on Monday 15th October... | | More events › | |
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