Introduction

Investment planning is a new approach to joining up public sector funds to maximise their impact on delivery of the Regional Economic Strategy (RES).  This investment plan reflects the sub-region’s best judgement of the economic development actions needed to radically improve West Yorkshire’s fortunes. Each of the four sub-regions in Yorkshire and the Humber – North, South and West Yorkshire and the Humber – have produced Investment Plans agreed by their Sub Regional Partnership. In West Yorkshire this is the West Yorkshire Economic Partnership. 

Investment Planning is designed to build on the previous sub regional action planning (SRAP) approach to ensure a more open, inclusive and integrated programme of economic development.  The Partnership laid the foundations for the Investment Plan in the strategy-building, master-planning, feasibility and early delivery programmes begun in the first two years of SRAP and will take these forward over the next five years.

A Strategic Economic Analysis of West Yorkshire (SEA) has been produced to support the Investment Planning process in the sub-region.  This, together with supporting documents can be downloaded from the Document Library (see link in right-hand column).