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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Does anyone know the criteria that was supposedbly been used to decide on these enterprise zones?
I am getting more concerned my city is getting no breaks.
It has higher unemployment than both derby and nottingham and has a higher reliance on the public sector. Yet I was shocked to read both derby and nottingham are to be zones and leicester has no mention. So the criteria is obviously different to what I would expect, nottingham I know has many more marginal seats so it wouldnt surprise me if political reasons were a priority. Liverpool another surprise as that is not a poor city. Nothing in the norfolk area which has hideous unemployment.
It seems they going to do quite a lot to selected areas, tax breaks, planning permissions slacking, fibre broadband using public money.
I expected places like hull, newcastle, leicester, blackburn.
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The Tories tried it in the 80's / early 90's and it flopped like a good one.
The South will get the majority of the money and anything North will get nothing.
I was at Boots last week when the 2 clowns were there massaging each others overflowing egos, watching them was cringeworthy to say the least I had to leave before I was sick.
The Company I Sub Contract to were of the same opinion that selected areas will only get the funds and the areas that need the funding will get nothing.