Getting the Best for Coventry
and Warwickshire
Appreciating our local and natural assets
Fantastic cultural assets, incl
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Compton Verney
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Belgrade Theatre
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Culture Coventry
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Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Warwick Arts Centre
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RSC
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Coventry Cathedral
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Warwick Castle
What we have been able to demonstrate in
the SEP process? (1)
Positives
 Coherent plan (first step of infrastructure plan)
 Made agreed priorities
 Demonstrated private/public sector working
Negatives
 Lack of ambition
 Governance – delivery mechanism
 Persistent perception of an alternative agenda
What we have been able to demonstrate in
the SEP process? (2)
Perception of C&W ability to deliver is good: Ambition and rationale for intervention is good
 Value for money is high
 Synergy of Partnership in delivering is high
 Delivery & Risk is well managed
 Costs & Benefits are demonstrated
 Delivery Routes are identified
What do we need to do now?
Delivery & Monitoring
 Deliver against Implementation Plan
 Funding Agreement
 Accountability & Evaluation Framework
Achieve additional conditions for increased
flexibility
 More innovative strategy
 Provide accountable delivery
 Effective working by and between LEP & EPB
How we do things now
LEP
Board
EPB
Executive
Clearing
House
Chief Exec
Group
Admin
Support
Not forgetting
 7 Inward Investment offers
 7 Local Plan areas
- Only one plan adopted
 2/3 Highway Authorities
 2/3 Transport Authorities
 CW Clearing House
 Chamber of Commerce
 FSB
How we recommend to manage the business
Private
Sector
Group
LEP
Board
EPB
Operational
Group
Executive &
Secretariat
Clearing House
Planning &
Housing
• Green Belt Review
• Duty to Cooperate
• SHMA
Transport Group/
LTB
Jobs & Skills
• Agreed Infrastructure
Plan
• Agreed Skills Strategy
Culture & Tourism
• Combined Cultural Offer
A2F
HVM
SME
Inward Investment
• Single Inward Investment
Offer
LA Chief
Executive
Group
Fundamental questions in setting the economic agenda for
Coventry and Warwickshire
LEP
Board
EPB
• Interdependence and complementarity of Coventry and Warwickshire
• A shared ambition to be a top tier, high performing Sub region
• Shared acceptance of the implications of economic growth
We must take this opportunity to create a step change for
Coventry and Warwickshire
Suggested Roles & Responsibilities
LEP
Board
CWLEP could:
• Be accountable for the development
and delivery of the SEP.
• Provide Private Sector Direction to
the economic strategy
• Exercise leadership in the operation
of Coventry & Warwickshire’s
centres of excellence: Growth Hub,
trade and international investment;
employment and skills; culture and
tourism and, research, strategy and
evaluation.
• Publically Stand with EPB in the
delivery of the strategy
EPB
EPB could:
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Be accountable for the delivery of the SEP
Provide streamlined coordinated decision
across the combined administrative area;
mutual co-operation; partnering
arrangements, and added value in the
provision of shared services.
Provide political accountability
Exercise Leadership
Speak on behalf of the Authorities they
represent
A commitment to ensure that any
decisions, proposals, actions are
implemented
Provide financial checks and balances
around use of public funding
Suggested Principal Aims for the whole LEP area
Clearly defined roles and responsibilities of LEP and EPB
resulting in:
• One inward investment offer
• One Policy Plan - employment/housing allocation
• One cultural offer
• One agreed skills strategy
• One integrated Infrastructure Plan
Implementation Timetable
 Determine the LEP/EPB Relationship
 Re-configure the CWLEP Board
 Create the Operational Group and Executive & Secretariat
 Merge offers
 Produce
 Joint Infrastructure plan
 Housing Review
 Local Plans
 Single Inward Investment Offer
 Agreed Skills Strategy
 Combined Cultural Offer
 Merge teams
Recommendations
• Adopt the principles of the amended LEP structure
• Support Chair/OG to engage with EPB regarding roles and
functions
• Ask Chief Executive to formulate draft operational structure
• Adopt agreed response to Fundamental questions
• Adopt the suggested principles of the LEP and refer to the EPB