goverment's enterprise zones

Canary Wharf is/was only a small part of the Docklands development.

When I worked down there in the mid 90's, there was lots of active development and businesses outside Canary Wharf (Limeharbour, etc), and as for now, the whole area is like a mini-city.

Much the same experience on Merseyside, where the work done by the MDC has created an attractive zone for further commercial development. The ferry terminal, the Echo Arena, the Museum of Liverpool, the Leeds/Liverpool canal extension to name but a recent few - none of these were done by the MDC but arguably they would all have been impossible without the MDC's initial regeneration of the Wirral and Liverpool waterfronts.

Wish we could have one in this town..we are virtually a dormitory town where the local council allows so much new housing that we have a surplus of youngsters with no work. and no new business's are opening up and there are many closing or leaving the area.

We have MOD properties such as Deadelus being decommissioned and therefore whole swathes of land to be redeveloped but we don't need new housing as we have so many already.

But I suspect that apart from London all the enterprise zones will be north of Watford.

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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.

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.