Annex A: Annex A CYC’s response to the Local Growth Plan Priorities 

1. Infrastructural enablers of success

Creating the right conditions for an exceptional quality of life, with good jobs at all levels and safe, affordable homes for everyone, attracting investment into the city

Proposal	About All areas to include supportive, inclusive, employment pathways	Government growth pillar	Local Growth Plan Priority	Link to York pipeline approved July 2024	Council Plan action
Unlocking the Local Plan	Identification of strategic sites that require additional funding to unlock, either because land locked and need ORR improvements, such as junctions or sites are banked / blocked for development. Ensure a quality development so leisure, green space, community facilities and education is recognised as critical. With a focus on lifelong accommodation and housing based on need	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning Place	Accelerate Place-Based Sustainable Development	Affordable homes growth Safe, green affordable housing	E1.1 E2.1 E2.2 F1.1 F4.2
Accelerating Brownfield and Greyfield Site development	Identification of the next tranche of brownfield / greyfield (linked to emerging NPPF policy) development sites with a focus on sustainable, affordable housing (including for key workers and linking to the work of the adult skills centre described below) that embeds accessible, affordable, sustainable transportation options to places of work and learning	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning Place	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development.	Affordable homes growth Affordable keyworker housing Safe, green affordable housing	E1.1 E2.1 E2.2    F1.1 F4.2
Optimising One Public Estate	Develop a business case for optimising One Public Estate in York to maximise its potential to benefit the city (affordable housing, health services, economic development and active sustainable transport options).	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning Place	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development	Healthy places infrastructure Housing Strategy Y/NY Affordable Homes Growth Affordable keyworker housing Safe green affordable housing	E2.1 E2.2 F1.1
Enhancing the Digital technology landscape	Digital Connectivity connecting businesses and communities to digital opportunity across York, enhancing the offer still further. · Develop a strategy to attract private sector and Whitehall funding · Remove barriers to complete city connectivity including in unusual street arrangements · Support early intervention and prevention across services · Prepare high streets for their evolving profiles · Act as a digital enabler through help and support to help business realize the potential · Future proof and provide affordable digital connectivity across the city and region to address coverage and choice gaps · Implement data hot spots for high density, high deprivation areas to support those on low-incomes who may otherwise run out of data (i.e for work).	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning Place	Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development	Digital connectivity	A5.3 A5.5 63.a 6.5.a 6.5.b
Become the first UK 100% self-generating/self-consuming energy city	Invest in the infrastructure and renewable energy sources that would lead to York being a 100% self generating/self-consuming renewable energy city. York will become a world-leading exemplar of a self-sustaining, net zero historic city that utilises technology and regional natural assets to overcome historical and infrastructural barriers to achieving climate change goals. Aligned projects may include · Green energy parks – Harewood Whin, Elvington Solar, Monks Cross Solar, exploring wind, hydrogen and other renewables · Retrofit / ROSY advice and guidance · Home energy retrofit grants for householders · LEAP Accelerator inc, heat networks · Attracting new models for investment for retrofit · Setting a strategy for community (re)generation across the city	Investment, infrastructure and planning Place Innovation Net Zero	Create economic opportunities through the need to transition to Clean Energy Maximise our science, knowledge, innovation and research strengths to drive growth in an Engineering Biology northern cluster	Decarbonising and adapting new and existing infrastructure (b, c, d, e, f) Renewable energy (a, b, c) Food redistribution	E1.1 E2.2  E3.1 E3.2 F1.1 F1.2 F2.4 F3.4 F4.2 F5.1 F5.2 F5.3 F5.5 6.4a
Outer Ring Road	Improve the Outer ring road with active travel schemes and dualling where funded as an enabler of economic growth, reducing congestion and providing enhanced access to the city.	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development	Strategic road capital upgrades	D1.1 D1.2 E1.1 6.4a
Local Transport Strategy – Our journey to be healthier, more sustainable and better connected.	Deliver the transport schemes that would lead to a 20% reduction of cars/fossil-fuelled transport on York’s roads as part of the wider transport settlement · Movement and Place plan schemes/corridors · Infrastructure improvements · Aligned to the emerging Local Plan	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development	Strategic road capital upgrades	D1.1 D1.2 E1.1 6.4a
A regional circular food distribution network	Build community capacity to create a circular food redistribution network in York and the wider region, aiming to eliminate food waste and support those in most need whilst reducing the city’s carbon footprint.	Innovation	Increase productivity and innovation within the Food and Farming Sector	Food redistribution	F3.3 F.3.4

2. Skills Pathways to success

Supporting people to achieve their ambitions and creating the right skills environment for future and existing businesses to thrive

Proposal	About All areas to include supportive, inclusive employment pathways	Government growth pillar	Local Growth Plan Priority	Link to York pipeline approved July 2024	Council Plan action
National centre for heritage retrofit skills	a combination of aligning pathways, school and adult skills outreach, sector support, business growth, web and marketing	People / Trailblazers	Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills	Regional adult learning centre Business support	B2.2 B2.4 B4.1 B4.4 C3.1 C4.2
Centre of excellence for digital heritage and Media Arts	a combination of aligning pathways, school and adult skills outreach, sector support, business growth, web and marketing	People / Trailblazers	Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills	Regional adult learning centre Business support	B2.2 B2.4 B4.1 C4.2
STEM route to bioscience and bioengineering	a combination of aligning pathways, school and adult skills outreach, sector support, business growth, web and marketing	People / Trailblazers	Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills	Regional adult learning centre Business support	B2.2 B2.4 B4.1 C4.2
Centre of excellence for rail innovation - STEM route to rail tech and network productivity	a combination of aligning pathways, school and adult skills outreach, sector support, business growth, web and marketing	People / Trailblazers	Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills	Regional adult learning centre Business support	B2.2 B2.4 B4.1 C4.2
Celebrate Lifelong learning with an accessible regional Adult Skills Centre (part of the lifelong Innovation campus – see below)	Embed a world-leading skills centre in the heart of York that provides a focal point to inspire inclusive (and supported) lifelong adult learning for residents, targeting hidden talent from deprived communities. It will also host an array of services that support people into work and provide advice to help people stay in work (health clinic etc) and act as a one stop shop for business support. It will not replace skills provision in local neighbourhoods that will act as a gateway in, so the start of pathways through adult’s skills through to apprenticeships and potentially onwards into further education. To help build confidence and inspire future generations.	People	Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills	Regional adult learning centre Green Construction Skills Initiative Business support Early years training VCSE and Social Care sector support	A2.3 B2.3 B2.4 B3.1 B3.2 B3.4 B4.4 C2.1 C2.3 C3.1 C4.2 E3.3
Construction Skills Village Network	Establish the construction skills village, supporting the development of construction projects across the city, with on-site skills development training. Capital requirement for construction of modular training centres with revenue to continue maintenance of facility.	Place People	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development	Green Construction Skills Initiative	B2.2 B2.4 B4.1 B4.4 C3.1
BREC – Bioresources Engineering Centre	Contribute to the development of a new anaerobic digester incubator as part of a consortium bid to transform bioresources processing and renewable product manufacturer.	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning	Maximise our science, knowledge, innovation and research strengths to drive growth in an engineering Biology northern cluster	Green economy	B2.4  C2.1 C2.3

3. A world class destination of choice enabling the city, region and country to thrive

Proposal	About All areas to include supportive, inclusive, employment pathways	Government growth pillar	Local Growth Plan Priority	Link to York pipeline approved July 2024	Council Plan action
Developing York city centre as a world-class economic and cultural centre	Invest in the opportunities set out in the City Centre Spatial Plan to ensure that York City Centre delivers our City Centre Vision, and fully maximises its economic, social, and cultural potential as the key urban centre in York and North Yorkshire. This includes · the reconfiguration of Castle Gateway to create new public realm · maximising the opportunities contained within the Movement and Place Plan in the city centre · Delivery of the infrastructure regeneration plans set out in the City Centre Spatial Plan · Continuing to shape an accessible city centre, including exploring a mobility hub with adequate and accessible toilets and benches, etc.	Place Innovation	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills	Our City Centre Cultural funding Cultural heritage skills UNESCO City of Media Arts Green, cultural and sport prescribing Tourism and cultural offer Economic Space for high growth sectors	A3.2 C5.2 D3.2
Business Enterprise Zone	Build a world-leading sustainable business enterprise and conference zone, comprised of · Start-up space for 20-30 enterprises to incubate for 18 months prior to spin-out, · Conference space Aim for the site to generate and consume its own energy, working closely with Harrogate to provide a complementary conference venue	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning Place Industrial Strategy and Trade Net Zero	Maximise our science, knowledge, innovation and research strengths to drive growth in an Engineering Biology northern cluster Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills	Business support Inward Investment Suite of tech accelerators Economic space for High Growth Sectors	C2.1 C2.3 C4.2
Lifelong learning and Innovation campus @ York Central Aligned to the Trailblazers programme recently announced	Build an Innovation campus on York Central to celebrate and enhance York’s status as a world-leading centre of rail, bio, agri-tech, creative and medtech to design, test, engineer and build the future. Act as a foci for knowledge exchange, complemented by the Business Enterprise Zone conference facilities – as a pipeline of regional, national and international opportunities, Embed accessible and inclusive skills and business support available for the disabled community. Build on an evidence base of skills needs for the region with management information about labour market driving skills pathways through entry level and beyond, connecting routes into employment for everyone. The Innovation Centre will connect (physically and through shared learning experiences) directly with the Lifelong Learning Centre to inspire and create pathways for residents.	Innovation Industrial Strategy and Trade	Enable technological and digital transformation through investment in Digital Infrastructure and Skills Maximise our science, knowledge, innovation and research strengths to drive growth in an Engineering Biology northern cluster	Economic Space for High Growth Sectors Suite of tech accelerators International relationships	B2.4  C2.1 C2.3
A station fit for the future	Support a vision and masterplan for the station that unites York Central, York Station Gateway  and creates a station fit for the future.  As well as supporting those schemes that contribute to the whole including: · Station masterplan · Station gateway · Western station access · Central Hall funding · Bus interchange	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development		D1.1 D1.2 E1.1 6.4a
A world leading centre for culture and heritage	Work closely with partners, to deliver a world leading cultural area action plan that transforms this area of the city’s cultural, heritage and conservation offer for residents and visitors and connects into strategic spatial and transport priorities such as Movement and Place	Investment, Infrastructure and Planning Place	Accelerate Place-based Sustainable Development	Tourism and cultural offer Cultural funding Transport connectivity	63.a D1.1