COUNCIL leaders from the Leeds City Region will discuss next week what their role should be within the new Local Enterprise Partnerships.
The city region partnership is holding its next leaders’ board, which includes City of York Council leader Andrew Waller, Coun John Weighell, leader of North Yorkshire County Council as well as Couns Mark Crane and Michael Gardner, respective leaders of Selby and Harrogate District Councils, next Thursday in Leeds.
Andrew Waller said the big issue of debate will be the role the city region partnership within the new LEPs, the government is consulting on at the moment to replace regional development agencies, like Yorkshire Forward.
“Clearly with the changes to Yorkshire Forward, the need to ensure that there’s an organisation working on behalf of the region which is democratically accountable is a key point.”
The meeting will also include reports into the progress of the city region partnership’s transport governance arrangements, its green infrastructure strategy, innovation capital programme and progress in establishing the Employment and Skills Board, of which Stephen Kennedy, chief executive of York-based CPP Group is a member.
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