Bolton Community Homes Partnership12 June 2014

Growth and ReformPhil Green, Head of Economic Strategy

This Presentation

• Context and Strategy• Economic Growth– Key sites and town centre– Housing

• Reform of Public Services– Employment and Skills – Working Well Pilot

Growth and Reform – GM Context

“By 2020, GM will have pioneered a new model for sustainable economic growth…where all residents are able to contribute to and benefit from sustained prosperity”Greater Manchester Strategy 2013

•Twin, mutually supportive aims of growth and reform•GM Growth and Reform Plan•Growth Deals with Government from summer 2014, flexibilities, freedoms and resource.

Economic Growth Bolton Context

• Economy challenging for six years• 2007 target - £1bn of investment – unlikely!• affected towns and cities across the UK• Important Council & partners lead a response• Strategy reshaped with renewed focus on:– maximising key sites for jobs and housing growth– investing in Bolton Town Centre– residents’ skills meeting business demand

Key Development Sites

• Logistics North (Cutacre)• Rivington Chase (Horwich Loco Works)• Bolton Town Centre

• Create 4000+ net jobs in Bolton (7750 gross)• Add £229m to Bolton’s economy (£339m in GM)• Start on site this summer – Aldi secured

Rivington Chase

• 1700 houses – 400 construction jobs1700 houses – 400 construction jobs• 379,000sqft commercial – 1350 jobs379,000sqft commercial – 1350 jobs• open space and community usesopen space and community uses• Planning committee June 2014Planning committee June 2014

Bolton Town Centre

• Addressing the Perfect storm• Investment priorities…– office– leisure– living– public realm– campaigns– business support

• Making progress…

Economic Growth - Housing

• Similar story… dramatic decrease since 2007• supply one third of forecast demand• less money to build; less money to buy• Challenges – why intervention is needed– address the widening deficit and gap– demography/stock challenges– vital to regeneration – Town Centre/Loco Works– long term trends – ownership/rent– construction jobs

Housing Growth - Response

• Supply – Allocations Plan final stages• Residential Growth Programme– understanding the market– mapping the sites– lessons - understanding why they are stalled– targeting interventions and empty properties– delivery of new housing

How does it all fit together?

• Bolton Local Economic Assessment in Mar 2013 – an independent evaluation by New Economy

• Considered our key developments from 2013-2027: Logistics North, Rivington Chase, Town Centres and the Skills Strategy

• Modelled 3 scenarios:– Logistics North– Rivington Chase– All developments plus Skills Strategy

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Policy Off Scenario 3

Reform – Strategic Overview• Supporting our residents to be more self-reliant,

reducing demand and cost on public services; building independence and raising expectations

• Growth and reform – two sides of the same coin• Redesign and collaboration - direct benefits for all

partners - housing has a key role to play• Integrated and sequenced whole family support

based on robust evidence• Early Years; Family First; Transforming Justice; Health

and Social Care …

Employment and Skills - Context• …Worklessness and Low Skills… Cross cutting

Supporting our residents to receive skills support and find and sustain work

• Bolton’s Employment and Skills Board• Influencing and shaping GM programmes– ESIF 2014-20 - c.£356m: £195m ERDF £161m ESF– Growth & Reform Plan/Skills Capital (Logistics North)– Youth Contract; Apprenticeship Hub; Working Well

• Leading integration and collaboration across partners and strands

Employment and Skills - Strategy• Significant progress in Skills Strategy delivery• Team Bolton and employers generating shared

outcomes including at Key Sites• matching labour market supply with demand by

raising aspirations, increasing employability skills and improving awareness, quality and access to apprenticeships, training , work experience and sustained employment

• Reaching and supporting the hardest to help and their families

Employment and Skills – 2014/15• The focus in 2014/2015 is on:– Employer ownership - tackling skills gaps and demand – Increasing access to quality and impartial advice and

guidance, esp. in schools– building on apprenticeships momentum– developing Education Zone integration– Increasing the breadth of offer especially for hardest to

help

Working Well

• Ingeus operational and expanding• Governance – GM Programme/Bolton

Delivery• Referrals, Characteristics and Barriers• Service integration – Protocols shaping up• GM Performance and Bolton Progression• Employment Support critical

Questions

• Growth – thoughts on interventions?• Reform – how best can housing integrate?• Working Well – have we captured your support?