Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP) is developing one of the country’s first Local Industrial Strategies. One of a family of strategies covering the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, the Buckinghamshire Local Industrial Strategy will set out a programme of activity to ensure that the county’s economic assets contribute more to the national and local economies. In order to help shape this key strategy, the LEP wants to hear from you.

Andrew M. Smith, Chair of Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership, said: “We have embraced the opportunity to work with government in delivering one of the first trailblazing Local Industrial Strategies in the country to help drive the Buckinghamshire economy to further increase innovation, support international trade and improve connectivity to help all businesses deliver their full economic potential. In order to ensure we develop a robust and inclusive strategy for Buckinghamshire, we are keen to hear from everyone who has an interest in the future economic growth of the county to help shape this important strategy.”

The Buckinghamshire Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) will focus on how to strengthen and exploit the county’s most important economic assets, assets that are distinctive to Buckinghamshire and are significant nationally and internationally.

The Buckinghamshire LIS will, in effect, form a local chapter of the government’s national industrial strategy, including its focus on four grand challenges facing the UK: artificial intelligence and the data economy; clean growth; the future of mobility; and the ageing society. The LIS will also exploit Buckinghamshire’s location at the centre of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.

A consultation draft of the strategy has now been produced and the LEP is seeking the views of businesses, communities and individuals from across Buckinghamshire to help shape the proposal to government in March 2019, with a view to the final strategy being published shortly afterwards.

They would like to hear from everybody with an interest in Buckinghamshire’s future growth and prosperity. For further details, consultation questions and downloadable document, please go to: www.buckstvlep.co.uk/our-strategies/local-industrial-strategy/

Responses can be submitted by email to Ian@btvlep.co.uk or Lisa.McCance@sharedintelligence.net. The closing date for responses is midnight on March 8th 2019.

About Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP)

BTVLEP is a business-led Local Enterprise Partnership which promotes economic growth and prosperity across Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire is a significant wealth generator for the UK economy, and the commitment of over £73m in Local Growth Funds is unleashing ambition and creativity in the county. This funding is enabling the delivery of new road and rail infrastructure, better skills and business opportunities and enhanced digital connectivity to support sustainable economic growth in the county which sits at the heart of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.