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Regional Strategy

Although the legislative basis for Regional Strategies has been withheld and will be withdrawn through the Localism Bill, the consultation work in the region has been used to agree on shared priorities.

Future North West: Our Shared Priorities provides a high level statement of strategic priorities and has been used to inform parts of sub-regional plans and provides a starting point of consensus for regional private, public and third sector partnership work.

Many of it's strongest advocates are the original signatories, mostly from the private sector:

Sir Richard Lees
Councillor Ian Marks
Robert Hough of Peel Holdings
Regional Director of the Confederation of British Industry
Regional Director of the Institute of Regional Directors
Chief Executive of the NW Business Leadership Team
Chair of the NW Chambers of Commerce
Chair of the NW Private Sector Partners
Chair of VSNW

This statement builds on a substantial programme of work by private, public and third sector partners from the length and breadth of the North West. This work was originally undertaken to support the development of the North West Regional Strategy (RS2010) but now underpins Future North West.

Future North West is based on a sound and comprehensive evidence base. It has also benefited from a sustainability assessment and an analysis of the North West’s environmental limits, as well as extensive stakeholder engagement and public consultation.

Third Sector consultation was particularly instrumental in developing strand 3 and its focus on linking growth to local communities.

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