Infrastructure
To achieve the vision, the region needs to focus on six key factors:
- Developing our Transport infrastructure to connect the region internally and with the rest of the world and using it more effectively.
- Ensuring appropriate Land Use – both in terms of brownfield land and new employment sites.
- Developing Housing to facilitate growth.
- Ensuring Planning supports sustainable growth.
- Developing appropriate use and supply of Energy.
- Encouraging public and private Investment.
Research Programme 2008/9
Manchester Growth Corridor
NWDA wish to commission work to offer an independent and objective view to explore the economic potential of the Manchester Growth Corridor. (There is no exact definition of this area, but could loosely be described as being bounded by Liverpool in the West, Manchester in the East and the M62 / M56 in the North and South respectively.)
There are many key economic developments being undertaken in this area, and it is a corridor with huge potential to drive the economic growth of the Northwest region. But we believe that at present this full economic potential is not being realised, because there is no vision of this corridor as a whole. The economic developments being undertaken are being considered in isolation. By joining up some of these developments into a strategic context the region may be able to get greater economic return from such developments and see potential solutions to problems which are not immediately obvious when each development is considered in isolation.
Aim: To identify the economic potential of the Manchester Growth Corridor