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Parker & Co
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Clearly there are advantages to Newport for the relief road. Just look at what happened in July when the Brynglas Tunnels were closed – chaos! On a good day it’s just congestion on a bad day its gridlock Newport! The M4 is the main artery to South Wales but I hope that if it happens one day Newport won’t be bypassed in more ways than one.
Brain drain – ah that old problem. We need high-quality, well-paid jobs to keep the graduates here. That means high-quality companies who will only come if there are high quality graduates. The chicken and the egg. We need to encourage the chickens to roost in Wales.
Purnells
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I am in favour of the M4 relief road. If it had gone ahead it would have relieved the bottle-neck which is the Brynglas Tunnels and would, no doubt, have encouraged investment into South Wales. The M4 running through Newport has difficulty in sustaining the current levels of traffic, which will only increase in years to come so I believe that the Welsh Assembly are just delaying the inevitable.
I am not surprised that Gwent is experiencing a brain drain. Businesses in Gwent are closing at a rapid rate and people are moving out of the area in order to seek better employment. I am encouraged, however, by the new Newport University Business School which has recently opened which may encourage the students who come from outside of Gwent to remain here.
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Dr Peter Noyes, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Newport There is little doubt that we are coming to the end game in the need for a more settled solution to the issues with transport in and through Newport. While the relief road seems dead and buried, something has to be done to deal with the logistical issues caused by the pinch point at the Brynglas tunnels. The Llanwern solution to local traffic flow will help but there are wider issues to deal with to put an end to the economic crises that we see every time there is an incident. We also need to ensure that the upgraded rail links to Blaenau Gwent are finally realised quickly.
Professor Stephen Hagen, Deputy Vice- Chancellor, University of Wales, Newport Preventing a brain drain from any city or region requires good job opportunities for graduates, but it also requires a steady stream of top quality, entrepreneurial graduates in the first place. A strong university is essential to deliver that. Newport’s University is remodelling itself with a strongly entrepreneurial focus and embedding employability and business skills across the curriculum. By getting our students interested in business during their studies and giving them the opportunity to work with local businesses, the chance of them staying, working and setting up their own firms is much enhanced.
Cardiff has to be the natural choice for a business hub in Wales. It is the capital and has excellent road and rail connections as well as an international airport. Cardiff was recently rated one of the top 10 worldwide city holiday destinations and also became a major new hub for creative industries with the new Research and Enterprise in Arts and creative Technologies Hub (REACT). Besides it’s just a great city!
Being born and bred in Newport, of course, I will say that a Wales Business Hub should be in my home town. A hub to support up-and- coming businesses in the area is desperately needed to encourage growth and could have the effect of reducing the ‘brain drain’ that we are experiencing.
Dr Peter Noyes, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Newport Gwent is a place situated on the main arterial transport route into South Wales, a place with a ready supply of entrepreneurial talent and a university focused on delivering graduates and services aimed at businesses. Gwent is in a unique position, able to look eastwards across the water to our partners in England, as well as westward towards Cardiff, Swansea and wider Wales. It would be a missed opportunity, not just for Gwent, but for the whole Welsh economy, if this region was not at the very top of the list for potential sites for an entrepreneurial business hub for Wales.
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