A BID to boost low wages in Ryedale will focus on building on the success of hi-tech industry.
A three-year action plan, run by Ryedale District Council, includes promoting the area’s racing and shooting sector and reviving hopes for a technology park near Malton.
It will also look at providing more industrial units for let and has marked out the dualling of the A64 between York and Malton as crucial to the district’s long-term economic prospects.
Average wages in Ryedale are about £19,000 a year, the lowest in Yorkshire and the Humber, and the council’s head of economy, Julian Rudd, said the plan would concentrate on raising this. “Engineering is a sector which has the capacity and potential to provide additional jobs, including skilled, well-paid work, and we want to support this growth,” he said.
Those who took part in a consultation on the plan said Ryedale’s racing network made it the “Newmarket of the north”.
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