Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership

John Peel OBE - Chairman

High Growth & Innovation

21st June 2012The Arora Hotel, Crawley

C2C High Growth & Innovation• LEPs – Spatial Context

• Coast to Capital LEP

– Spatial Areas

• Focus & Goals

• Growing Places

• The Spine

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•South East LEP

•Enterprise M3 LEP

•Surrey ConnectsSurrey Connects

•Solent LEP

•Coast to Capital LEP

The latest map of all 39 LEPs

100% coverage

Coast to Capital LEP – 5 Spatial Areas

Croydon

(Ravi)

The Gatwick Diamond

(Tim & John)

Rural West Sussex

(Alex)

Brighton & Hove, Lewes

(Phil & Steve)

Coastal West Sussex

(Iain & Juliette)

One 25 year goal

100,000 additional jobs!

The Focus

Entrepreneurship,Enterprise &

Growth

International Trade & Export

Why we focused on these priorities

• Are the three biggest levers in the economy for job creation

• The Creation of businesses• The Growth of businesses• Businesses trading overseas

Coast to Capital – 5-year Goals

• Creation of an additional 4,500 new businesses and

growing them

• Increasing the number of internationally trading

businesses by 4,000

• The creation of 20,000 additional private sector

jobs

“The Spine”

“Growing Places”

“The Supply Chains”

OVER TO PHIL!!

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