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Thames Gateway Kent Partnership Delivering sustainable growth in North Kent opportunities and challenges for business Rob Bennett Chairman, Thames Gateway Kent Partnership North Kent B2B 2016 www.tgkp.org Thames Gateway Kent Partnership

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Thames Gateway Kent Partnership

www.tgkp.org

Delivering sustainable growth in North Kent – opportunities and challenges for business

Rob Bennett

Chairman, Thames Gateway Kent Partnership North Kent B2B 2016

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Thames Gateway Kent Partnership

Going to cover:

  • News since last time:
  • our Enterprise Zone bid for North Kent approved
  • Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission announced
  • Key issues for business:
  • Infrastructure
  • Sites and premises
  • Support and advice
  • Education and skills
  • Are these the issues that concern you? We want your

views.

www.tgkp.org

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Thames Gateway Kent

www.tgkp.org

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North Kent Innovation Zone

  • Multi-site Zone comprises three schemes:
  • Ebbsfleet Garden City (Lead: Ebbsfleet Development Corporation)
  • Kent Medical Campus (Lead: Maidstone BC)
  • Rochester Airport Technology Park (Lead: Medway Council)
  • Total 64 hectares
  • 230,000m2 new development floorspace for start-ups and SME

expansion

  • Building on existing specialisms – life-sciences, medtech,

advanced manufacturing and engineering, digital technologies

  • Up to 9,900 jobs by 2025/26
  • Strengthening the Kent Innovation Corridor
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Heart of the Kent Innovation Corridor

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Ebbsfleet Garden City

Ebbsfleet Valley - Northfleet Rise

  • 4.1 ha, 30,000m2
  • Digital and creative industries,

environmental technologies, medical and healthcare

  • 2,500 jobs by 2025/26

Northfleet Riverside

  • 22.4 ha, 54,000m2
  • Advanced manufacturing, digital

technologies

  • Innovatory space / workshops
  • 2,400 jobs by 2025/26
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Rochester Airport

  • 21 hectares, >48,000m2
  • Advanced manufacturing and

engineering, R&D and prototyping Re-configuration of the operational airport (LGF2 funded)

  • Innovation ‘campus’ extending from

Innovation Centre Medway

  • 1,700 jobs by 2025/26

M2 Junction 3

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Kent Medical Campus

  • 16 hectares, 98,000m2
  • Adjacent to Kent Institute for

Medicine & Surgery

  • Medical and life-sciences,

complementary medicine, neuro- rehabilitation centre, HE medical and healthcare training facilities

  • Links to Biogateway Network
  • 3,300 jobs by 2027

M20 Junction 7

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North Kent Innovation Zone (NKIZ)

  • Business benefits – business rate discounts worth up

to £55,000 a year for 5 years

  • Enterprise Zone goes live from April 2017, but
  • First premises likely to be available late 2017
  • 31 March 2022 – final date for businesses to occupy

premises and secure incentives (but benefits run for up to five years from that date)

www.tgkp.org

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Thames Gateway Kent Partnership

Contacts

If you want to explore further, or register an interest, please contact TGKP or one of the three areas: EZ Coordinator: Richard Longman - TGKP

 Richard.longman@thamesgateway-kent.org.uk

Ebbsfleet: Jennifer Hunt – Ebbsfleet Development Corporation

 Jennifer.hunt@ebbsfleetdc.org.uk

Rochester Airport: Richard Kidd – Medway Council

 Richard.kidd@medway.gov.uk

Kent Medical Campus: Karen Franek – Maidstone District Council

 Karen.franek@maidstone.gov.uk

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Thames Estuary Growth Commission

  • Lord Heseltine to lead the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth

Commission.

  • “The Commission will develop an ambitious vision and delivery

plan for North Kent, South Essex and East London up to 2050. This will focus on supporting the development of high productivity clusters in specific locations. It will examine how the area can develop, attract and retain skilled workers. It will also look at how to make the most of opportunities from planned infrastructure such as the Lower Thames Crossing. It will report back at Autumn Statement 2017 with a clear and affordable delivery plan for achieving this vision.”

www.tgkp.org

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Thames Estuary Growth Commission members

  • Rt Hon Lord Heseltine
  • Rt Hon Greg Clark MP
  • Lord (Jim) O’Neill of Gatley
  • Lord (Andrew) Adonis
  • Sir Edward Lister
  • Sir John Armitt
  • Lord (Norman) Foster
  • Rt Hon Mark Francois MP
  • Prof. Alice Gast
  • Sir George Iacobescu
  • Prof. Dr Uwe Krueger
  • Sir Stuart Lipton
  • Sadie Morgan
  • Tony Pidgley
  • Nicola Shaw
  • Geoffrey Spence

www.tgkp.org

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Thames Estuary Growth Commission

  • Commission launch expected in mid-July
  • Scope and remit still to be announced – but will cover

Canterbury and Thanet as well as North Kent

  • Will be opportunities to submit evidence/views
  • Commission to deliver its final report by Autumn 2017
  • Huge opportunity to make the case for investment in Kent and

wider Thames Gateway

  • Commission will want to hear business views - TGKP will

publicise how to respond on our website

www.tgkp.org

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Key issues for business - infrastructure

  • Key opportunities / investment decisions needed:
  • Lower Thames Crossing
  • Crossrail extension to Ebbsfleet and Gravesend
  • M2 junctions:
  • Bean/Ebbsfleet junctions to open up the Garden City
  • Junction 5 improvements to support growth in Swale
  • Need to continue to press Government for early decisions

www.tgkp.org

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www.tgkp.org

Highways England consultation on the Lower Thames Crossing This was their proposed solution – at Location C Government decision awaited

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C2G: Extension of Crossrail to Gravesend

www.tgkp.org

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Crossrail Extension to Gravesend (C2G): Realising the potential for growth in the Thames Gateway

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Key issues for business – sites & premises

  • Commercial space
  • Growth and investment being hindered by a shortage of premises of the

right type, size and quality

  • Particularly for start ups and SMEs – high occupancy in existing business

and innovation centres

  • Growing demand for smart and flexible space to meet changing working

conditions – hot desking, meeting rooms, business clubs, networking

  • Enterprise Zone opportunities
  • As already mentioned, the North Kent Innovation Zone will offer

incentives for businesses including business rate discounts of £55,000 per year for 5 years

www.tgkp.org

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Key issues for business – support and advice

  • Ensure coherent and well-signposted business support offer –

companies want simple / single point of access and clarity of

  • ffer
  • The Kent and Medway Growth Hub is now in its first ‘pilot’ year
  • f operation, offering sign-posting and impartial advice
  • Local authority economic development teams have detailed

local knowledge and expertise

  • Locate in Kent, inward investment agency, is able to offer expert

advice and support for companies seeking premises

  • See TGKP website for contact details

www.tgkp.org

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Key issues for business – education/business links

  • Businesses stress need to strengthen links with schools - explore ways
  • f getting more companies involved and better / meaningful

engagement (from both sides)

  • We have initiatives doing good work eg Young Chamber, the Medway

and Kent Education Business Partnerships, Young Enterprise

  • But is there more we should do?
  • Also vital to strengthen links between businesses and our Universities
  • Universities and businesses are represented on the key partnership

Boards – LEP, KMEP, TGKP etc

  • But again more to be done – eg currently working with the HE sector to

ensure universities fully involved in implementation of the North Kent Innovation Zone

www.tgkp.org

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Key issues for business – skills, qualifications and employability

  • Issues raised by business:
  • Work with national agencies to ensure programmes address North

Kent priorities

  • Develop support to increase number and take-up of Apprenticeships

and in-work training

  • Help secure employer-responsive skills training provision/courses
  • Work underway:
  • Kent and Medway Skills Commission has established Guilds to

support skills and training needs of specific industry sectors

  • TGKP skills task group set up to identify action at the North Kent

level that can add-value to what is being done at district, County and LEP level.

www.tgkp.org

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www.tgkp.org

To be continued…

  • Long term venture
  • Huge opportunities, but

investment still needed

  • Business feedback crucial –

do you agree with these key issues?

  • What have we missed?
  • Let us know how we can

help Visit TGKP at Stand 3

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Thames Gateway Kent Partnership

www.tgkp.org

Delivering sustainable growth in North Kent – opportunities and challenges for business

Rob Bennett

Chairman, Thames Gateway Kent Partnership North Kent B2B 2016