| Enable Economic Recovery from Covid-19 ensuring all residents benefit from growth |
- Ensure our borough becomes stronger post Covid-19 by supporting businesses to recover, adapt and build resilience.
- Work with partners to facilitate a high skill, high wage, low carbon workforce.
- Develop opportunities to ensure the new economy is greener, sustainable and more resilient.
- Work with our partners to enable Colchester town centre to be a more vibrant, resilient and adaptable to future change.
- Transform the Northern Gateway as a hub for improved wellbeing, physical activity, jobs, housing and renewable energy.
- Address the inequality of access to Gigabit Broadband in communities.
- Tackle local skills shortages working with businesses, University of Essex, Colchester Institute and other partners.
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| Work with partners to deliver a shared vision for a vibrant town |
- Agree a Town Deal with partners and the Government to attract significant new investment.
- Collaborate with the town centre Business Improvement District (BID).
- Continue to regenerate Colchester Town Centre using Council assets, aligned private investment, the Town Deal and Town Investment Plan.
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| Create an environment that attracts inward investment to Colchester and help businesses to flourish |
- Ensure our strategy for inclusive economic growth supports the ambitions outlined in the North Essex Growth Strategy, the Local Industrial Strategy and our Town Deal.
- Ensure a good supply of employment land and premises to attract new businesses and allow existing firms to expand and thrive.
- Encourage green technologies and innovative solutions to the Climate Emergency.
- Maximise the Social Value benefits derived from third party contracts.
- Ensure the Council’s assets continue to contribute to economic growth and opportunity.
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