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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #292 Place is the Space for Growth
Description: How should local and regional leaders encourage investment in their communities? Around the world, cities struggle with a legacy of industrial decline. In England, devolution of planning policy to mayoral combined authorities has allowed for regions like Greater Manchester to outpace national growth. But within regions, local areas can themselves fall behind, and require a joined up approach to planning and investment.
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, and Susan Hinchcliffe, leader of Bradford City Council, joined Tim Newns, MD for Levelling Up at the UK Department for International Trade’s Office for Investment, and Richard Robinson, pr...