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RECOMMEND
2nd Working Summit
26 – 28 November 2012
Neil Darwin,Chief Executive
Opportunity Peterborough
What does Opportunity Peterborough do?
• Inward Investment – ensure the City is visible
• Economic Development – support local business ambitions
• Create conditions to increase skills levels• Increase our knowledge of the local
economy
- the City’s economic development company
Peterborough
• Population : 185,000
• Well connected!!
• One of the UK’s fastest growing cities
• Appetite to grow even faster
• Environment Capital
An overview of the area
• A population of 1.3 million
• Estimated to grow to 1.5 million by 2031
Currently home to:
• 700,000 jobs
• 60,000 enterprises
• Generating £30billion per annum
Priority areas
• Skills and Employment
• Strategic economic vision, infrastructure, housing and planning
• Economic development and high growth businesses
• Funding, bids and proposals in conjunction with the private/public/voluntary sectors and business; including EU funding, regional growth funding, and private sector
Our barriers
• Infrastructure deficit, especially transport
• Not enough homes• Not enough affordable homes• Skills ‘coldspots’• Loss of funding and capacity to
address these
Our economy
• 5,500 registered businesses• Strong diverse economy• NCL manufacturing history• Strong, modern Environment sector –
300 companies• Large financial services; large
food/drink industry