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Our latest Cardiff Business newsletter is out - our top story highlights that new rail plans could create 30 new stations and deliver £17bn economic boost. We have a guest column from: Craig Hampton-Stone MA FRSA FCILT of Cardiff Bus discussing "Transforming Cardiff’s Bus Services for the Next Generations" Contributions and mentions in include; Western Gateway, Sarah Williams-Gardener, Huw Thomas, Cardiff Council, Dan Okey, David McCallum, Transport for Wales, Creative Wales / Cymru Greadigol, Simon Baston, Loftco, Inc., Development Bank of Wales, Donna Strohmeyer, Cornerstone Finance Group, Wescom Group, BCB International Ltd, Ross Wilkinson, Andrew Howell, O Constantinou & Sons, Helen Rouse, Gambit Corporate Finance LLP, Simon Gray, Wolseley Group, Nigel Howell, Bluebay Building Products Ltd , Frank Holmes, Sam Forman, Jones Hargreaves, Matthew Jones Read all about it and more here 👇 https://lnkd.in/e-S29Vph Subscribe to the weekly newsletter here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eKYErvy4

Key lesson from the Cornwall Business Fair today: that the appetite for business investment in nature does exist... In fact, many smaller businesses based here want not only to put their money into nature, but their blood, sweat and tears too. They want to see, feel, hear, and smell their impact. They want it local, and they want it effective. It's easy when we work at the national level to get ambitious about scale and reach, and always be looking to do MORE over FURTHER. And there's a place for that - it's vital. But it starts at home, it starts small, and that's key too. My goal going forward: to keep my national head on but with my heart always beating local. National Landscapes Association #landscaperecovery #localnaturerecovery

Keir Starmer has committed to “getting rid” of regulation which blocks growth. David Lawrence and I find that reforming Judicial Review for planning decisions should be at the top of Starmer's list. Protections for litigants have failed to keep pace with increasingly well-resourced and organised opposition groups, who increasingly rely on crowd sourcing to finance legal challenges, often on repeat grounds. ⚖️⚖️⚖️ To get Britain Building 👷🏗️, the new government should seek to: 1. Reform standing rules 2. Introduce higher costs for unsuccessful challengers, especially where crowd funding has been used 3. Automatically expedite cases through special planning courts 🏠🌆 To see all 7 of our recommendations, read the full briefing here UK Day One Project National Infrastructure Commission Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Mustafa Latif-Aramesh Sam Dumitriu John Myers YIMBY Alliance Britain Remade Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Resolution Foundation Global Counsel Neil Amin-Smith Oliver Hamlet Olivia Novick Marley Miller Camilla Cavendish Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School

Latest News - As part of its commitment to support local businesses in the area, Fareham Borough Council has invited Hampshire Growth Hub to Fareham Innovation Centre on 17 December, to talk to businesses interested in receiving free, government funded, business support. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e5K5S9bX

🌍 "Investment, growth, sustainability at UK PLC level and, how we play on the global stage". Convening strategic, public-private and cross-boundary partnership will be crucial over this coming period. ✅ Jason Longhurst @ Prologis UK says for industry, working together at pan-regional level gives scale, the confidence to invest and understanding of how the region will grow. With the great changes that #devolution #strategicplanning #IndustrialStrategy will bring, and recognising the scale of global movements, convening at pan-regional level is critical to how we deliver this all, especially at the pace Government is moving. 👉 The consultation about consequences of ceasing funding for PRPs in March 2025 closes in less than two hours. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Secretary of State, Rt Hon. Angela Rayner and Minister for Local Government and English Devolution, Jim McMahon OBE MP are due to decide in January whether the consequences are great enough to the sustainable growth and development of the #OxfordtoCambridgeRegion #ScienceSuperpower East West Railway Company Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board England's Economic Heartland Arc Universities Group Richard Hutchins Arthur Le Geyt Placi Espejo Alison Bailey Nathan Vear Hilary Chipping Matt Allen FCIM Mike Archer Sarah Haywood Barbara Ghinelli Karen Clarke Alistair Lomax Naomi Green Paul Leinster Lynette Ryals OBE (Professor)

#York businesses - are you interested in innovation? Have your say and influence the future of what innovation support and potential funding across York & North Yorkshire could look like from the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority. SQW on behalf of The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority is conducting research into the current business innovation support landscape across our region. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey which will inform future support programmes: https://lnkd.in/e8VjmRaA #York #innovation #businesssupport

"Working together at pan-regional level gives scale, confidence to invest and understanding of how the region will grow." Final few hours to have your say on the PRPs Consultation 👇🏻 https://lnkd.in/eZV4c7sW #collaboration #innovation #internationalinvestment #global #scale #regionalcollaboration

As we're reading headlines about corporate HQs fleeing NYC, it's also interesting to read about economic development drivers in the city. https://lnkd.in/gsrSBseA

Isaac Tawil’s approach focuses on economic planning and collaborative governance, aiming to lead McAllen into a new era of growth and regional influence. https://lnkd.in/giV4zY_P

Planes, Trains and...Green Book! Whilst the expansion of Heathrow and railway links between Oxford and Cambridge might have hogged the headlines, it was the Chancellor’s commitment to review the Green Book that got us excited! Buried within the Chancellor’s landmark speech to kick start the economy was a pledge to "...review the Green Book and how it is being used to provide objective, transparent advice on public investment across the country, including outside London and the Southeast." For the uninitiated, the Green Book is the government’s guidance manual on appraisal, which you might think is just something techie, but think again. The Green Book dictates how public spending decisions are assessed across Whitehall and in the regions. Many of the metro mayors – with Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region in the vanguard – have long argued that the prevailing Treasury orthodoxy of using techniques, such as land value uplift, principally benefit areas with, well, strong land values. We are naturally Green Book devotees, with live appraisals right across the country, and we look forward to contributing to this debate. We were also pleased to hear the Chancellor confirm that the Wrexham and Flintshire Investment Zone will move ahead. AMION has been supporting Uchelgais Gogledd Cymru | Ambition North Wales, Wrexham County Borough Council and Flintshire County Council in moving this forward. #HMT #GreenBook #Growth #Regions