EEDA - East of England Development Agency

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Regional planning and delivery

EEDA is working with local authorities and regional partners to ensure that funding is directed where it is most needed and will have the greatest economic impact.

For maximum impact, it is important that all public and private investments are coordinated and combined for greater effect.

Integrated Development Programmes

Infrastructure planning needs to consider its impact on a wide geographical area.  A number of Integrated Development Programmes (IDPs) are being prepared in some of the region's economic centres.  These will identify the infrastructure investment priorities in specific places that all interested parties will agree to and follow.

The East of England includes all or part of the four nationally identified growth areas:

• The Thames Gateway
• Milton Keynes South Midlands (which includes Luton and South Bedfordshire)
• London, Stansted, Cambridge, Peterborough

The Thames Gateway is the largest regeneration project in Europe.  It covers an area that includes parts of Essex, Kent and a number of London boroughs.  EEDA has been working with the Department for Communities and Local Government, South East England Development Agency and the London Development Agency to produce an Economic Development Investment Programme (EDIP) for the Thames Gateway.  This identifies investment priorities across the gateway to enable more strategic and targeted investments are made. 

Delivery

EEDA provides funding to a number of delivery partners across the region to ensure there are sufficient skills and capacity to deliver the high levels of growth.  These provide expert knowledge in their 'local' area and ensure investments are coordinated and targeted where most needed. 

We work closely with sub-regional economic partnerships (SREPs) to understand and support activities to tackle area-specific economic issues.

Other key sub-regional partners include local delivery vehicles (LDVs).  LDVs seek to achieve big physical transformations of specific areas. They coordinate investment plans from both the public and the private sectors, and attract new investment through promotion and regeneration of their areas.

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