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Berkshire Local Industrial Strategy Framework Consultation

Meeting: 27/06/2019 - Executive (Item 18)

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Additional documents:

Decision:

That:

 

1)        the work the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership has done to date on the Berkshire Local Industrial Strategy Framework Document be endorsed;

 

2)        the responses from Wokingham Borough Council to the consultation questions posed on the Berkshire Local Industrial Strategy Framework Document be approved.

Minutes:

(Councillor Haitham Taylor declared a personal interest in this item)

The Executive considered a report relating to a proposed response to the consultation questions posed on the Berkshire Local Industrial Strategy (BLIS) Framework Document.

 

When introducing the report the Executive Member for Business and Economic Development highlighted that in the past Wokingham had benefitted from over £70m out of the £180m that was available for the whole of Berkshire which had been spent mainly on undertaking improvements to roads. 

 

Councillor Haitham Taylor informed Members Central Government wanted to fast track the BLIS which would be one of the first in the UK.  It was hoped that the Government would complete the BLIS process earlier than the 2020 date mentioned in the report.

 

In relation to consultation response 4-2 Councillor Murray wanted to ensure that more emphasis would be placed on climate change and environmental sustainability issues in the framework and any funding that was handed down would be done on condition of there being an element of climate change and environmental sustainability responsibility.  Councillor Murray was advised that this was repeated in a number of the consultation responses, was being picked up the LEP and would be reflected in the document coming back in the autumn.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

1)        the work the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership has done to date on the Berkshire Local Industrial Strategy Framework Document be endorsed;

 

2)        the responses from Wokingham Borough Council to the consultation questions posed on the Berkshire Local Industrial Strategy Framework Document be approved.