Infrastructure & Local Economy Board

This new Board brings together infrastructure, regeneration, business, skills and environmental issues.

Its responsibilities are largely non-statutory but it will be required to have a strong influencing function both locally and with colleagues working on a sub-regional basis.

Its work is both complementary and influential in relation to the development of the new West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

The new Board's responsibilities includes:

• Signing off the Local Economic Assessment
• Developing an Infrastructure and Local Economy Strategy which reflects place, business and skills
• Supporting and providing input to the Local Development Framework
• Overview of transport infrastructure plans
• Overseeing delivery of performance reward grant projects
• Driving up performance

The outcome of these responsibilities will be to achieve:

• Increased business confidence in North Somerset
• A significant increase in the number of local jobs
• Increased employment opportunities for the long-term unemployed
• Development of a workforce with skills that businesses need
• Improved transport infrastructure
• A reduced carbon footprint for North Somerset
• Reduced amount of waste going to landfill
• Address environmental concerns

Membership

There are no statutory membership requirements for this Board. Membership of this Board will be determined in accordance with the outcomes it aims to acheive.