Thriving Economy
Thriving Economy is one of the 5 themes for the Buckinghamshire family of Sustainable Community Strategies. You will be able to track progress in Buckinghamshire on this theme here.
What are aiming to achieve by 2026?
Buckinghamshire’s ambition is to further strengthen its existing prosperity and become an acknowledged global centre for enterprise and entrepreneurship, even in difficult economic conditions.
This means providing support for existing businesses and encouraging inward investment. It means developing world class business clusters and exploiting new technology, particularly IT and broadband. It means creating job opportunities to match the substantial planned population growth. It means ensuring that the right workforce is available at the right time to match local business need. It means developing tourism in the area, and capitalising on the opportunities that London 2012 and Paralympics affords.
Crucial to this step-change in our economic base is appropriate workforce skills development. We must focus on improving opportunities for those with few qualifications and those who need to retrain. We must also provide more support for disabled people to reach their potential in the workplace.
Our plans for a thriving economy will falter unless growth is managed through a careful balance of housing development, new jobs and the skills base to match them. It means making the best use of our existing infrastructure and maximising the benefit of any new infrastructure, including employment land (land used by business and industry for offices, warehousing and technology parks etc). This needs to be achieved without threatening the character, distinctiveness and vibrancy of our towns and villages.
New housing needs to focus mainly on the growth area in the north, but we also need the right mix of housing across the County to provide affordable homes for those who need them.
The voluntary and community sector, and the individual contributions of its volunteers, are a highly valued aspect of Buckinghamshire’s prosperity and of increasing importance to its future economic development.
We aim to:
- Build business, enterprise and innovation and promote global competitiveness
- Develop skills and employment for the future
- Increase affordable housing
- Support strategic infrastructure requirements
- Promote investment in Buckinghamshire
How will we do this?
As the website is developed, we will communicate examples of how a Thriving Economy is being promoted in Buckinghamshire.
For more information call 01296 387831 or email bsp@buckscc.gov.uk
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