Chase Chase Chamber Patrons
CONTACT: Chris Plant T: 0845 603 6650
Let’s Do Business
event makes return Businesses are invited to find out what the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is doing to bring jobs and growth to the area at Staffordshire’s largest business event on 29 June. The LEP will be exhibiting at Staffordshire Chambers’ annual ‘Let’s Do Business’ networking event at Uttoxeter Racecourse. The free-to- attend event runs from 10am to 4pm and attracts hundreds of delegates from a broad range of business sectors across the region. The aim of the Chambers’ flagship event is to
create a platform for anyone who wants to promote their business and network with the local business community. The LEP’s stand will showcase the work of the
business-led partnership in areas including opening up new sites for business, industry and housing, from the Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone in the north of our area to i54 and Four Ashes in the south, and Branston Locks in the east. Businesses can also hear about the LEP’s work
to improve skills levels in the region. Chamber director Chris Plant said:
“Staffordshire is spectacularly successful at breeding and encouraging new, small, exciting firms full of dynamism and promise. There is no shortage of enterprise in this county but there is a shortage of shouting about it. So full marks to everyone who is planning to exhibit or attend.”
David Frost takes the LEP chair once more
David Frost (pictured) has been reappointed for a second three- year term as chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). He said the LEP had
already achieved significant success in bringing jobs and investment to Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, and said he was looking forward to maintaining that momentum. "Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire has great
things going for it as an area to live, work and invest – particularly its pivotal location at the centre of the country, its track record of innovation and creativity and its can-do attitude," he said. "The LEP has proved itself as a constructive
and proactive partner for investors and businesses and we are now in an exciting period where we are seeing our plans and investments translating into business growth and more and better jobs for local people.
"This is a great time to be leading the LEP and driving our forward our ambitions for a thriving economy. "However there is still much
to do. We have to steer this economy through the Brexit negotiations and we have to ensure that the LEP reaches
out to local communities." David Frost is a former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce. The LEP is providing more
than £147m of investment over the period to 2021 in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. This includes putting in the infrastructure to
open employment and housing sites, new education facilities and support business growth. Key development sites include flagship
Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone, comprising six strategic sites along the A500, with Meaford, near Stone; Branston Locks, near Burton; Liberty Park, Lichfield; and Four Ashes and Featherstone in South Staffordshire.
Chase candidate goes on pothole patrol
Amanda Milling, the Conservative candidate for Chase in the General Election, used her last few weeks in the previous Parliament to help solve the constituency’s pothole problem. Ms Milling has been an avid pothole campaigner
in Cannock Chase, where for several years she has been running a ‘Pothole Patrol’ initiative. Whilst an MP in the previous Parliament, she
met county councillor Mark Deaville, the highways portfolio holder on Staffordshire County Council and took him on a tour of the constituency to see some of the problem potholes in Cannock Chase. They visited problem sites like Five Ways
island in Heath Hayes and Hill Top in Hednesford and also Church Road in Norton Canes, where council workmen were repairing potholes that the MP has complained about. She said: “I receive numerous complaints
about the state of the roads in the Cannock Chase area and have been running my ‘Pothole Patrol’ campaign for the last few years. “I have reported all the defects to
Staffordshire County Council and sometimes I have reported the same defects several times over. There are some parts of the constituency that seem particularly in need of repair, such as Five Ways island and the double roundabouts at Hill Top in Hednesford.
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Fixing a hole: Amanda Milling and Mark Deaville on pothole patrol
“After visiting these sites with Mark Deaville, he
has confirmed that these sites will now be repaired and works are being scheduled. This is fantastic news and long overdue. I am hopeful that we are
finally beginning to make some progress over getting the potholes repaired, but I will continue to pursue this campaign vigorously until all our roads are maintained to an acceptable standard.”
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