Business

Category Background

To ensure that the development contributes to the sustainable economic vitality of the local area and region.

While a sustainable development accounts for environmental performance, it also builds a strong economic infrastructure to help support residents and businesses alike. A strong and sustainable economy will attract people and enable places to thrive.

The South West RSS considers the integral role of businesses towards creating sustainable communities:

‘There is a need to build on existing business success and further raise business productivity. Resource efficiency and a low carbon approach will have an important role to play in terms of both boosting business efficiency, and allowing economic development within environmental limits’. SW RSS Section 8: Enhancing Economic Prosperity and Quality of Economic Opportunity (8.2.1)

‘The future economic success of the region is to a large extent reliant upon the SSCTs functioning more efficiently and effectively as places where people and businesses benefit from well-planned urban environments and transport systems.’ _SW RSS Section 5: Regional Approach to Transport (5.2.2)

Supporting local and independent businesses, providing good transport links into towns, creating facilities for learning and making use of local features are all methods to boost a localities economic stature. Encouraging businesses to grow will create jobs, boost trade, encourage tourism and above all, enrich the quality of living in an area.

The Business category will address:

  • Supporting the viability of existing businesses
  • Attracting appropriate inward investment
  • Sustainable business locations
  • Job creation
  • Range of business premises

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