Our plans for the future
Vision and Strategy
An Ambitious Plan
To be the healthiest, most sustainable, inclusive and growing economy in the UK.- Sustainable - Delivering clean growth, becoming carbon neutral, and creating sustainable cities, towns, and places for people to live and work.
- Inclusive - Enabling all residents to live healthy and successful lives, and tackling barriers that may prevent them from doing so - particularly the fundamental inequalities that people face.
- Healthy - Improving the health of residents whilst narrowing the gap between the experience of the richest and the poorest.
- Growing Economy – Increasing the incomes of everyone in Cheshire and Warrington by utilising its economic strengths to increase productivity and build on the area’s status as the second fastest growing economy in the country. We are currently consulting on our draft Strategy - further evidence and information is available on our consultation page.
Cheshire + Warrington has, for many years, been one of the fastest growing economies in the country
Draft Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Strategy
Cheshire and Warrington’s vision is to be the healthiest, most sustainable, inclusive, and fastest-growing place in the UK by 2045. This vision builds upon our region’s long-standing economic strengths, with levels of productivity outperforming the whole of the rest of the North West as well as being consistently higher than the national average. With nearly one million residents and over 41,000 businesses across diverse, high growth sectors - including energy, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing - we are well positioned to achieve this ambition.
Local Industrial Strategy
We finalised a Local Industrial Strategy during 2019/20. The development of the strategy was evidence-led with extensive collection and analysis of a range of economic data. The insights drawn from the data show that the Cheshire and Warrington economy remains strong, but that there are potential challenges to be addressed in achieving our long-term economic objectives. The Local Industrial Strategy aims to deliver sustainable economic growth and in doing so creating a more productive, resilient and inclusive economy.
Strategic Economic Plan
We published a refreshed Strategic Economic Plan in July 2017, which confirmed the revised growth ambition shared across the Cheshire and Warrington sub-region: to grow our economy’s GVA to £50 billion per annum by 2040. The plan is intended to be a high-level, strategic road map to achieving our growth ambition. The strategy has been designed to be flexible and provide a broad framework within which different areas and groups can align their activities.
The Strategic Economic Plan sets out the key opportunities that will drive our growth ambitions:
- The world class science, technology and innovation assets within the Cheshire Science Corridor
- The once-in-a-generation opportunity that HS2 will bring to the Constellation Partnership area and wider region
- The unique cross-border opportunities within the Mersey Dee Economic Axis, and the potential to create Warrington New City
Other Strategies
To help reach the goals of the Strategic Economic Plan and Local Industrial Strategy, a range of supporting strategies and documents were created, providing a framework for their specific area, to help us are supporting strategies that will help Cheshire and Warrington to be the UK’s most sustainable, inclusive, healthy, and growing economy.