Local economy development
Local Economy Development
Economic Action Plan Consultation
The Council wants to hear from businesses in all sectors from
tourism to farming, high technology to craft enterprises, self
employed and social enterprises. The Council also invites
views from landowners, developers, relevant public sector and
community organisations. The plan is available to view or
download on line to the right of this page and comments should be
forwarded by 25 May 2012 to
Economy and
InfrastructureCreating jobs and supporting businesses are key issues
to the Council's role in economic development.
Council Priorities
Council Aim 2: To create the right conditions for economic success
in Ryedale:
To have economic structure an supporting infrastructure in
place,
Opportunity for people; increasing wage and skill
levels.
These are our current activities to meet the
priorities:
Creating Economic prosperity in the
place
Infrastructure - road, energy,
communication
Infrastructure - employment land
Industrial Units
Tourism product
Employment / investment land
Capital projects
Ryedale Folk Museum
Milton Rooms
Malton Museum Foundation
A64 Brambling Fields
Market towns
Creating economic prosperity for people
Key Account Management (talking directly to key businesses
and employers in Ryedale)
Work and Skills partnership activity
Opportunity Knocks project (linking
young people to employers locally)
University Fast Track (linking
businesses to northern university networks)
Step Up Learning Programme (adult
basic education)
Business Forum / Federation of Small Businesses
Tourism delivery (Marketing, Tourist Information Centres and
special projects)
LEADER - 2 European programme areas (funding for community
projects)
Town Teams - Community Economic Development
LEP Liaison
Social Enterprise
Creative Economy (Arts and Heritage)
Business advice and referrals. Previously a business
grant scheme
Current Opportunities
Broadband
Green Jobs
Off shore wind energy
Local initiatives / projects eg local food
Capital development - Rural enterprise centre
Skills development - meeting local needs
LDF - 45ha new employment land over next 15 years
Connections with Science City York - FERA
Broadband
Ryedale suffers from poor quality broadband throughout the
District. NYCC, through the Connecting North Yorkshire
Partnership, are administering Central Government Funding to bring
High Quality Broadband (>2Mbps) to as much of North Yorkshire as
possible.
We are working with partners (including Ryedale Voluntary
Action) to identify the aspirations of both businesses and
communities that are seeking to improve their broadband connections
in rural areas of Ryedale.
Three local steering groups have been established in
the Ampleforth, Great Wolds Valley and Southern West Ryedale
areas. They are completing the application forms for grant
aid to attract an Internet Service Provider to design, build and
operate high speed broadband schemes locally - likely to be
wireless systems.
We are partners in 'Connecting North Yorkshire' a partnership to
bring high speed broadband to all of North Yorkshire by 2017.
More details can be found on the NYCC website NYCC . and look for the 'Go On'
brand.
If you are experiencing poor access to broadband, please log
onto the broadband questionnaire (link given to the left) to
highlight your current speeds and register your interest in a new
scheme.
Alternatively email us at Economy and Community. to put
you in touch with your nearest local scheme.
A pilot project to encourage businesses to use high speed broadband
has been launched at the York Road Industrial Estate in
Malton, in partnership with the Local Enterprise Partnership.
Business advise regarding the contribution that high speed
broadband can make to reducing costs or growing your business,
coupled with a grant to implement the advice that are on offer.
Contact us at Economy and Community. to learn
more about this time limited scheme.
Community Investment Prospectuses /
Market Town Masterplans
Thanks to funding from North Yorkshire County Council’s Single
Regeneration Budget Round 6 (SRB6), and from Yorkshire Forward’s
Market Towns Initiative and Renaissance Market Towns programmes,
each of the four market towns in Ryedale now has a Local Area
Partnership and a comprehensive plan for their town for the next
ten to fifteen years. Originally these plans were known as
Community Investment Prospectuses; now they are often referred to
as masterplans or action plans.
The partnerships form part of the Ryedale Strategic
Partnership, which gives each partnership financial support to
enable it to hold and service meetings, to produce publicity
material and to update their plans from year to year. The
plans form part of Yorkshire Forward’s sub-regional investment
plan.
The four partnerships are,
- The Malton and Norton Area Partnership
- Pickering Town Team
- Kirkbymoorside - Our Future
- Future of Helmsley Group (an advisory committee of Helmsley
Town Council)
Details:
Malton and Norton Area Partnership
Chair: David Lloyd Williams
Pickering Town Team
Chair: William Oxley
Kirkbymoorside - Our Future
Chair: Joe Coughlan
Future of Helmsley group
Chair: Martin Vander Weyer
York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise
Partnership
HM Government have invited the YNYLEP to form a Board.
By doing this, they have recognised the LEP as one of the 30 now in
existence. The press release and HM Government letter are
available to download here. The LEP also now has a public
website, detailing progress:
YNYLEP.