“I’m looking for funding to develop an innovation centre so I can work with other businesses. Automation is a big area we are moving into.
“We’re talking to clients about some really interesting products, introducing autonomous vehicles and robotics. It is about how they can improve the workload, freeing up people to do more skilled work.
“Part of the reason for the innovation centre is that people can touch and see and feel, because it’s very difficult look at something and say, ‘This is how it can transform your business,’ if it’s just a 3D computer model.”
Simon Lawrence, director of growth and regeneration at Lancashire County Council, says there is support out there. He points to the work of Boost, Lancashire’s business growth hub and Rosebud, which has provided thousands of loans to businesses in the county.
Then there are the ‘bootcamps’, bespoke training programmes for specific skills to either get people into sectors or to strengthen the skills of those already in there.
He says: “There’s a whole range of different bootcamps, for instance around forklift truck driving. It’s a multi-pound funded programme that started life here in Lancashire.”
Simon believes the council’s economic strategy also provides an opportunity to promote the sector.
He says: “It is something that ought to feature heavily, alongside some of the other big hitting sectors whether that’s aerospace, cyber coming into Salmesbury and also nuclear.”
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Lancashire County Council
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Mark Davies Legal director, Backhouse Jones
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Award-winning Backhouse Jones (BHJ) is a leading firm of solicitors which has built an unrivalled reputation representing the commercial road and passenger transport industries.
BHJ is known for being at the forefront of transport related legislation and undertaking the lion’s share of Public Inquiries before the Traffic Commissioners of the UK.
Our achievements
Proud Red Rose Award winners for ‘Professional Services’ in 2023 and Legal 500’s Northern Powerhouse ‘Transport Firm of the Year’ in 2024, BHJ continues to dominate the transport sector and disrupt the legal market with innovative approaches.
Training (through BHJ’s dedicated company ‘BACK Academy’) along with compliance reviews and tailored approaches for clients of all sizes continues to play a large part in our growth strategy.
Who we’re looking to connect with
Any business with transport at the heart of it! BHJ works with a full range of companies ranging from SME to large blue-chip organisations.
Our aim is to provide businesses with immediate, practical and industry specific advice leaving others to concentrate on the running of a successful operation.
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We provide a whole range of products and services to make warehouses smarter. The challenges our customers face are around people, cost of space and warehouse optimisation. We help with that in a range of ways. Our racking ensures they can store more, more efficiently. Our racking compliance work protects lives and reputations. And our automated mobile robots (AMRs) and autonomous vehicles transform productivity.
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The AMRs and autonomous vehicles we’ve added to our portfolio bring a new generation of shuttle systems and cage movers to our clients, enabling them to maximise floor space usage and minimise rack spend. Later this year, we’ll be introducing a purpose-built ‘innovations hub’ to showcase these latest developments and give customers a real understanding of how they can apply automation to drive greater efficiencies.
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