hidden potential: supporting growth in sunderland and similar cities paul swinney centre for cities
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Hidden potential:
Supporting growth in Sunderland and similar
cities
Paul Swinney
Centre for Cities
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Sunderland’s pattern of spatial development has been surprising…
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…and business movements have reflected this pattern
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City centre still has the most private sector jobs, but only just
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Price doesn’t seem to be a factor in business location decisions…
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…but weak demand doesn’t appear to be the driver of this
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The weak urban core has wider implications
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Lack of career progression is stark
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A reconfiguration of the urban core is required
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Principles of City Deals
• Need to “demonstrate strong, visible and accountable leadership and effective decision-making structures”
• Have to take on a greater degree of the risk
• Have to work across their natural economic footprint with neighbouring local authorities
• Have to show that they can either deliver better outcomes for the same spend (or less) or deliver the same outcomes more efficiently if powers and spending are devolved to a city level.
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1. Support for office development
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2. Short term office space provision
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3. Transport and 4. Skills
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• There are likely to be efficiencies in dealing with cities facing common issues and similar economic performance
• Mid-size cities are more likely to require public sector intervention to support future growth
• A key issue for mid-size cities is the strength of their urban core. The creation of a mid-size cities investment fund could help address this
• But the philosophy City Deals have been set out as bespoke arrangements with individual cities – a grouping should act as a way in, rather than a ‘batch processing’
Implications for wave 2