HULL CITY PLAN
Since the launch of the City Plan in 2013, Hull has seen significant economic benefits with thousands of jobs being created for local people and unprecedented levels of investment; a rapid growth scenario that many cities can only aspire to.
The plan is overseen by the Business Leadership Board (BLB), a ‘guiding coalition’ of the leaders of the private, public, voluntary and community sectors, charged with helping to shape the city’s long-term future direction. By bringing expertise, drive and leadership credentials, BLB provide the focus for pursuing projects on a citywide scale and impact; projects that will make a tangible and lasting difference. Acting as city-ambassadors, BLB Members bring creativity, resources and presence to an already rich pool of expertise helping to ensure that the city can play a full and meaningful role in a UK and international context.
The ambitions of the City Plan continue to cover the themes of:
Delivering Economic Growth
ENERGY CITY
Hull, through its prime economic and geographic location on the Humber energy estuary, has placed the city firmly at the heart of the UK hub for new and emerging industries focusing on renewable energy and the transition to a low carbon economy. Green Port Hull, which delivered Siemens Gamesa, Europe’s largest wind turbine production and installation facilities at Alexandra Dock, is just the first step. Capitalising on the initial Siemens’ investment, the Green Port Hub programme has delivered a local co-located value chain, establishing Hull, and the Humber, as a world class centre for renewable energy, delivering a capable workforce to meet the challenges of the new industry. Thereby, this project is making a major contribution to the ambitions of the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, underpinning a new plan for the next phase of growing the UK’s Energy Estuary, critical to the Local Industrial Strategy for the Humber[1] and the benefit of our residents.
DESTINATION HULL
Hull, a gateway to Yorkshire, the UK and to Europe, which as UK City of Culture 2017, delivered the wider Destination Hull capital programme of major cultural and transport infrastructure projects, firmly grasped this once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a sustainable thriving visitor economy; building on its rich heritage, culture and diversity, whilst embracing the future and the opportunities that it will bring.
Putting Hull on the map provided opportunities for all our residents, communities and businesses not seen for generations whilst refocusing the city towards the legacy of building on what has been achieved and sustained. That legacy focus is the key to the future, building on the physical, cultural and social steps forward that have been achieved, not least, by our residents.
[1]The Government has stated its desire to grow and ‘rebalance’ the economy, recognising that whilst many people, places and businesses are thriving, opportunities and growth continues to be spread unevenly across the country.
Delivering Fair Growth
A PLACE OF COMMUNITY AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL
Hull aims to be a place of opportunity for all and looking to ensure that everyone in the city can benefit from its recent economic success. Fair Growth, often referred to as inclusive growth, will now be a key development area in the next stage of our City Plan journey.
The City Plan will seek to support everyone to achieve their best by:
- Ensuring people receive the services they need as early as possible through prevention and early intervention
- Helping provide a city-wide coherent education system that enables every child and young person in Hull to fulfil their potential and talent
- Encouraging entrepreneurial skills and attitudes, recognising the contribution that enterprise activity can make to people’s lives, particularly the young and the very young
- Providing opportunities to maximise people’s personal income and reduce outgoings to make money go further with access to good jobs, training and skills development
- Help with safeguarding the most vulnerable in our society, offering extra support where needed, helping them to live independently, leading to a happier, healthier, longer life
- Encouraging fair growth across all the city’s businesses, organisations and institutions, to support the collective wellbeing of the city’s people
- Helping to build strong, active, empowered and engaged communities