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Priority 3 - Action Area 2 (AA3-2)

Developing High Quality Sites & Premises of Regional Importance

Funding for projects which support the development of Regional Strategic Sites, specifically projects that develop high quality environments using: landscaping; public realm, including gateway features; ICT connectivity; energy management; green infrastructure; and transport plans.

AA3-2 focuses on: knowledge-based businesses and high value added sectors; creating the right “sense of place”; and tackling of brownfield land issues.

Rationale

Regional Strategic Sites in the Northwest are focused on: regional investment sites; knowledge nuclei; and inter-modal freight terminals. The sites provide opportunities to support: knowledge-based growth; a range of key sectors; and the economic restructuring of particular locations.

These sites have the potential to: drive up regional competitiveness and Gross Value Added growth; and help to tackle sub-regional economic disparities.

Although the private sector is often a willing partner in these types of schemes, it would not necessarily bring forward the optimum mix, scale or spatial pattern of regional employment sites to meet the economic development requirements of the region.

Eligible Activities

There are three approaches to determining which sites should be supported under AA3-2

  • Where there is a strong market failure argument for intervention
  • Where the intended end use is not general industry and distribution, but sites which have the potential to encourage the expansion of the region’s knowledge economy and high value sectors
  • Where there is the potential to provide employment to areas of regeneration priority in the region

Eligible high quality sites and premises of regional importance

  • Ashton Moss
  • Barton
  • Basford, Crewe
  • Birkenhead Docklands
  • Blackburn Centre: Freckleton District
  • Bolton Innovation Zone
  • Carlisle City Centre (Caldew Riverside and Rickergate)
  • Central Chester (Rail Gateway Area of Opportunity)
  • Central Park, Manchester
  • Daresbury
  • Ditton, Widnes
  • Dunningsbridge Corridor (Port of Liverpool access)
  • Estuary Park, Speke, Liverpool
  • Lancaster University Bailrigg Site
  • Lillyhall Business Park, Cumbria
  • Liverpool Northshore
  • Liverpool Pall Mall extension (Commercial District)
  • Liverpool Science Park
  • Liverpool University Edge
  • Manchester Piccadilly Basin/Oxford Road Area of Opportunity
  • Omega, Warrington
  • Parkside, St Helens
  • Preston Central Business District
  • Rochdale Kingsway
  • Samlesbury BAE Site
  • Salford Quays/Irewell Corridor Area of Opportunity
  • Sport City
  • Warrington Waterfront (Bank Quay Area of Opportunity)
  • Westlakes Science Park, Cumbria
  • Whitebirk, East Lancashire
  • Wigan South Central
  • Wirral International Business Park

For more information on the sites covered, download the Investment Framework.

We are currently operating a reserve list of projects for this AA. To discuss your project idea please contact Hazel Catt.

Notes

Activities within AA3-2, AA4-2 and AA4-3 should be developed as integrated projects where appropriate.