ERDF NW Operational Programme 200713

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ERDF NW Operational Programme 2007-13

• Workshop 4 Action Areas 3.2 4.3
• Greater Manchester Information Day, Friday 17th
  October 2008

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Action Area 3.2

• Forms part of Theme 3 Creating the conditions
  for Sustainable Growth
• Allocated Programme resources of around 32m
  outside Merseyside
• Overall objective of AA3.2 is to drive up
  regional competitiveness and GVA of the region
• Focus is on support for the delivery of the
  Strategic Regional Sites and supplementary sites
  endorsed by the PMC

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Action Areas 3.2, continued

• Investment Framework for AA3.2 approved,
• following partner consultation, and PMC
  endorsement in March 2008
• Adopted approach
• limited bidding for funding for the agreed sites
  identified through a site assessment process

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Action Area 3.2, continued

• Key principles to support project prioritisation
  
• Sites need strong market failure argument for
  intervention
• Sites need to have potential to directly
  encourage the expansion of the regions knowledge
  economy and high value sectors
• Sites should be close to or have potential to
  provide employment to areas of regeneration
  priority
• Sites should be sustainable in environmental and
  economic terms

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Action Area 3.2, continued

• Retained Strategic Regional Sites in GM
  potentially eligible for support
• Ashton Moss
• Barton
• Central Park, Manchester
• Rochdale Kingsway
• Supplementary list of Additional Regionally
  Significant Sites in GM potentially eligible for
  support
• Bolton Innovation Zone
• Manchester Oxford Road / Piccadilly Area of
  Opportunity
• Salford Quays / Irwell Corridor Area of
  Opportunity
• Wigan South Central

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Action Area 3.2, continued

• Progress to date
• Next steps.

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Action Area 4.3

• Forms part of Priority 4 Growing and Accessing
  Employment
• Allocated Programme resources of c41m outside
  Merseyside
• Overall objective of AA4.3 is to directly create
  employment opportunities for residents of target
  areas

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Action Area 4.3, continued

• Focus is upon
• creating local employment opportunities in, or
  very near to, areas of particular regeneration
  need in the region where there are the most
  significant problems of worklessness
• Specifically, to support projects of physical
  investment contributing directly to employment
  creation of target areas
• E.g. development of employment sites brownfield
  land reclamation for employment use and
  projects such as managed workspace which support
  local employment generation and community
  economic development.
• Investment Framework for AA4.3 approved by PMC in
  March 2008.

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Action Area 4.3, continued

• Key principles to support project prioritisation
• Spatial concentration based on RES priorities
• In GM, this comprises the NEM and Central
  Salford URC areas and the Housing Market Renewal
  areas of Oldham/Rochdale and Manchester/Salford
  and
• any additional areas identified by the SRP which
  meet an alternative threshold criterion, namely
  an above regional-average proportion of working
  age population claiming out of work benefits. To
  be eligible, either the entire LA district must
  have higher than the regional average or if a
  smaller contiguous (group of wards /SOA) area,
  must have the above rate and have at least 2,500
  people on these benefits.

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Action Area 4.3, continued
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Action Area 4.3, continued

• Design Principles
• Deliverability
• Scale (projects which need gt1m ERDF resources)
• Fit with SRAPs
• Viability
• Use of ICT and Environmental best practice
• Sustainable buildings
• Sub-Regional Partnership role in establishing
  spatial priorities in line with RES target areas
• Expressions of Interest

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Action Area 4.3, continued

• Progress to date
• Next steps any further EoIs under this first
  call to be submitted by 30.11.2008