Cornwall Expo Zone Information
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Aerohub Zone
Aerohub at Cornwall Airport Newquay
Aerohub is England's only focused Enterprise Zone with significant development land and access to development support, offering aviation and aerospace companies in a unique operational environment. It was awarded Enterprise Zone status in 2011 and is now the largest planning free zone in the UK covering 650 acres.
The Aerohub Enterprise Zone has the opportunity to attract investment, development and jobs through a combination of business rate discounts worth up to £250,000 over five years for each business on the zone and planning free development that can accelerate development timeframes and superfast broadband links.
16 companies are now located at the Airport, including Bristow Helicopters, Apple Aviation, British International Helicopters and AgustaWestland, employing over 450 people at an average annual wage of £33,400.
Aerohub@ Newquay Cornwall Airport is being led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership and Cornwall Council, as the owners of the Airport and surrounding land. They co-commissioned Cornwall Development Company to deliver the Enterprise Zone project alongside Cornwall Airport Limited as the operator of the Airport and CDC’s Aerohub Team are part financed by the European Regional Development Fund Convergence Programme 2007 to 2013.
Specific projects include :
Incubator hangar – the 2,323 sqm hangar, completed in Dec 2014, is now occupied by Apple Aviation
Aerohub Business Park – the £6.3m infrastructure project will complete this year, providing 21.7 hectares of serviced land for development,.
Bristow Search and Rescue Hangar– following the awarding of the search and rescue contract to Bristow helicopters the new £7m will be operational from December 2015 creating 40 new jobs.
Better Business for All Zone
Better Business for All is a partnership between the business community and regulatory services at Cornwall Council. It is led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
Regulation takes many forms. It includes trading standards, environmental health, animal health, licensing, planning and fire and community safety.
Cornwall Council's team of regulators carry out more than 60,000 one-to-one visits to local businesses every year. The vast majority of these visits are to offer advice and guidance to help businesses comply with the law.
Better Business for All is part of a national government initiative to reduce the regulatory burden on business. It is endorsed by the Better Regulation Delivery Office,which is part of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP was been selected as one of the 11 early adopters of the scheme and successfully bid for grant funding to get the project off the ground.
The project is being managed by a steering group which includes small and large regulated businesses in Cornwall, the Federation of Small Businesses, Cornwall Chamber of Commerce, the LEP and representatives from a cross-section of regulatory services at Cornwall Council (including Environmental Health, Licensing, Trading Standards, Fire and Planning).
Better Business for All has a Charter which commits everyone involved to work together to ensure we have a regulatory environment that promotes business success and provides public protection.
It is about working with the business community to improve how regulatory services are delivered in Cornwall. It aims to show how working with your local regulators can save you time and money, improve your competitiveness and help you grow your business.
It's also about encouraging more businesses in Cornwall to seek advice from local regulators by highlighting the benefits of regulation to business, without fear of enforcement activity.
And it's about ensuring that regulatory staff better understand how businesses operate and the pressures they face.
Bus Zone
Cornwall Council wants to ensure its residents and visitors have a public transport network that enables access to essential services.
While a £36m investment in rail since 2000 has seen rail use in Cornwall grow by 8% per year to 6.5m journeys, there has been a reduction in the use of buses.
The recently approved Devolution Deal andthe £8m of Growth Deal funding awarded to the Council in March 2014 provides an opportunity to invest in the bus network, to attract more people onto buses and create links with rail to provide an improved public transport system for Cornwall.
The aim will be to see improvements in roadside infrastructure, better customer-focussed information and marketing, newer appropriately sized vehicles, inter-modal ticketing, and better branding of the product to raise the image and delivery of an integrated public transport network for Cornwall.
Specific projects will include:
- Services and vehicles - new and refurbished vehicles and a network of smaller, more appropriately sized vehicles which will help improve the journey experience and attract more passengers
- Infrastructure – high quality and accessible interchange and waiting facilities improve the waiting experience and connections between services
- Smart ticketing – contactless/cashless ticketing across bus, rail and ferry with a flexible range of projects better suited to the way we travel.
Business Zone
The Business Zonewill allow delegates to network with both the public and private sector
There will be representatives from the following organisations:
- Growth Hub
- Better Business for All
- Cornwall Chamber
- Federation of Small Business
- Islands Partnership
- UKTI Southwest
- European Enterprise Network
CORMAC Zone
CORMAC comprises two companies – CORMAC Solutions Ltd and CORMAC Contracting Ltd. Both companies are wholly owned by Cornwall Council and are designed to deliver value-added services for the Council and to trade in the open marketplace to generate a sustainable financial return to the Council.
Last year CORMAC returned over £6m to the Council which helped to meet budget pressures and support frontline services for the residents of Cornwall.It also spent over £16m with Cornish small and medium sized enterprises, worked with 105 community partnerships and supported community groups providing 100,000 volunteer hours worth £1.45m.
- CORMAC Solutions Ltd provides services to both the Council and its partners. Its purpose is to enhance local communities by delivering innovative services which create a better local environment and contribute to sustainable economic growth, whilst facilitating resilient, self-sufficient and safer communities.
- CORMAC Contracting Ltd is a trading company which acts as a vehicle for private sector growth. Its purpose is to generate revenues by winning work in a competitive environment and partnering with other public or private sector companies to deliver cost effective and sustainable solutions to complex engineering challenges.
CORMAC employs over 1,600 people across seven business divisions who deliver a wide range of services including designing, fixing, building, inspecting, maintaining, gardening, cleaning, landscaping, quarrying, recycling and much more. These include over 700 highly trained cleaning staff working in more than 500 locations; mechanical and Electrical services which maintain, service and install equipment; a Property Maintenance section which provides day to day reactive work, planned maintenance and construction works; a Compliance section and one of Cornwall’s largest vehicle and plant maintenance facilities.
The Design and Build section is one of the South West’s leading Civil Engineering contractors and covers all areas of infrastructure design and development., including major construction, civil engineering and highways projects, marine and coastal works, land remediation, building, property refurbishment and construction, bridge and retaining and retaining wall strengthening and replacement works, footway and cycleway construction, project management and a wide range of consultancy services.
Recent projects include A30 Temple to Higher Carblake, scheme design review; A391 Carluddon Road Improvement, A390 Trafalgar Roundabout, Langarth and Tregurra Park and Ride sites, Union Corner Roundabout, Falmouth, A30 Avers, Tolvaddon and Treswithian junction improvements, Bencolen Bridge, Bude, Newlyn and Bolitho Sea Walls, Jubilee Pool regeneration, and Portreath Sea Wall repairs.
CORMAC continues to win contracts across the UK, as well as offering highways maintenance services to town and parish councils, doubling its turnover in the past three years. It employs more than 50 apprentices and continues to develop skills and training initiatives.
Culture Zone
Cornwall’s creative industries employ 12,000 people and are worth £500 million to the local economy.
The Council’s Culture Team, part of the Economic Development Service, aims to grow the creative and cultural sector in a way that improves the economic, social and cultural well-being of all communities across Cornwall.
The team now encompasses the arts and creative industries; museums; Cornwall Archives and Cornish Study Service; the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site and MAGA – the Cornish Language Service.
The Council has supported a range of cultural projects in recent years. These include:
New workspaces : including new builds such as the Percy William Building at Krowj; repurposing historic buildings such as the Grade 11 Listed old Count House and Carpenter’s Shop at the King Edward None which has been transformed into nine workspaces; conservation projects, such as the historic Porthmeor Studios in St Ives and Poet Charles Causley’s house in Launceston and building on successful foundations, such as Falmouth University’s growing success as a leading specialist in arts courses.
Establishing global connections – including achieving UNESCO World Heritage Site status for the Cornish Mining sites in 2006;developing links between the Leach Pottery in St Ives and Japan; tours by Kneehigh Theatre to America, China and new Zealand and ongoing projects led by Tate St Ives
Enriching the lives of local residents and visitors – through projects such as the Cornwall Museum Partnership, which brings together six museums and develops and manages collaborative programmes of work; the FEAST programme and the successful WildWorks theatre.
Ambitions for the future – including the Kresen Kernow project to create a modern archive and library space at the historic Redruth Brewery site; the development of the Hall for Cornwall building to provide 25% more seats and a fresh front and back of house and cultural sector facilities, and the further development of the Cornish language services.
Cycling Zone
The case for investing in cycling is clear. For every pound invested in cycling in the UK in 2010 there was an economic benefit of £19.
A 10% increase in people cycling to work could save the Cornish economy £16.9m a year in Cornwall from NHS savings and reduced mortality. It could also save £4.7m from reduced traffic congestion and lower pollution levels.
Improved cycling provision will improve access to services, reduce social exclusion and transport poverty. It will also improve physical and mental welling, and create a safer pedestrian and cyclist environment by slowing vehicle speeds to 20mph.
The National Cycle network now passes within one mile of half of all Cornish homes. Leisure and tourism cycling on the National Cycle network supports over 15,000 jobs and directly £650m to the UK economy each year.
Cornwall Council is working with a range of partners to make cycling investment integral to enhancing and regenerating our communities for all.
Highlights of this work include:
- A £7.465 m project to develop Bodmin as Cornwall’s first Cycle Town. The project will build on the success of the Camel Trail, which already attracts more than 500,000 users a year, and the Cardinham and Lanhydrock cycling hubs to re-balance the partnership between pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. Improvements include the development of a comprehensive high quality walking and cycling network; low speed environment at Dennison Road, Turf Street and Church Square junction; improved Camel Trail alignment at Scarlett’s Well; improved connections to Bodmin College, local primary schools and the Callywith employment zone and improved pedestrian and cycling access at the new £2.2m Priory Road roundabout. This will help attract 74,000 new cyclists to the town, generate additional spend of £1.2m in the town centre each year, support the delivery of 536 new jobs and improve traffic flows.
- Community ownership of a cycle village scheme in St Agnes – this project has been driven by local community group “Aggie Cycles” – with the aim of improving the village center for all users, encourage growth in the local economy and provide more inviting, viable and sustainable travel patterns.
- Penzance and Newlyn – the regeneration of Penzance starting with providing a high quality cycle link along one of its greatest assets, the bay. The 10km coastal cycle way from Marazion to Mousehole will act as an economic driver for the area. This is the first phase of a wider ambition for a Bay to Bay cycle route linking Penzance, Newlyn and Marazion with St Erth, Hayle and St Ives. This will provide an additional attraction for the town, improve the quality of the Promenade, create links to the existing transport hub, re-design the street scene, support the regeneration of the town centre, and link key regeneration sites.
Digital and Superfast Broadband Zone
Superfast Cornwall 2011-2015 EU Programme
In 2010 Superfast Cornwall set out to transform lives by creating the world’s biggest rural fibre broadband network.
Since then the pioneering £132m superfast broadband partnership, funded by the EU, BT and Cornwall Council, and managed by Cornwall Development Company, has built a fibre based network that now covers 95% of premises, with nearly 90% able to connect with superfast speeds of over 24Mbps – making Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly some of the best connected places in the world.
Fibre broadband is transforming the way people work and play; boosting the economy, enabling businesses to work more effectively and bringing online entertainment to life.
12,000 business are now connected to superfast broadband. Rural communities are also benefiting from superfast, with more than 3,000 people given their first taste of the internet with help from community venues, CRCC, libraries and Job Centre Plus.
Superfast connections have benefited the economy by £186m and created or safeguarded 4, 500 jobs and start-ups.
The next phase will upgrade about 9,000 premises in 2016 and 2017 with a programme funded by central Government, Cornwall Council, RGF and the LEP’s Growth Deal.
The long term goal is to keep Cornwall at the leading edge of digital connectivity by ensuring that over 99% of premises can connect to 30 plus Mbps superfast speeds.
Electric Vehicle Zone
Cornwall Council received £1 million in Government funding in 2013 to provide electric vehicle charging points across Cornwall.
The aim is to create a reliable charging network to allow drivers of electric vehicles to travel throughout Cornwall and encourage more people to consider owning an electric vehicle; helping to reduce vehicle noise and combat air pollution.
The Council, in partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and Chargepoint Services (CPS), launched their first Electric Vehicle charging point at Eden in August, and are now working to install the charge points at various venues across Cornwall and bordering regions for public use. The new charging are being switched on in batches into the Autumn.
There are two different types of chargepoint; Superfast and Fast.
Superfast “rapid” recharging points (50kW) are being installed to facilitate onward travel recharging . These charging point are located at roadside stops across Cornwall, Plymouth and West Devon.
Fast charging points (7-22kW) are aimed at general day to day use and are being installed at various public access buildings such as Cornwall Council offices, college campuses and the Truro park and Ride sites. .
The Electric Vehicle zone showcases the rapid and fast electric vehicle charging infrastructure, along with a range of electric vehicles, from manufactures including Tesla, BMW, Nissan, Renault, Peugeot and Kia.
Employment and Skills Zone
The Employment and Skills Zone is a great opportunity to network and learn more about how you can develop your business to drive productivity, jobs and growth.
The Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Employment and Skills strategy sets out the priorities for developing the employment opportunities and the skills of our people, bringing together the needs of businesses across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. One of the key principles is to provide great careers here by nurturing and developing the talents of our young people to gain the right skills and ensuring they have access to great career opportunities.
You will also have the opportunity to chat with local FE colleges and training providers about skills requirements within your business.
Exhibitors include:-
Education Business Partnership – with many years’ experience engaging its network of employers in activities, events and motivational programmes which enable young people to broaden horizons and become aware of employment opportunities.
National Apprenticeship Service
Advice and support and how apprentices can benefit your business.
Graduate Recruitment with Unlocking Potential
Brighter Cornwall is run by Cornwall Council in partnership with Unlocking Potential and supports graduates with paid work experience opportunities.
Software Cornwall
Software Cornwall and its members will be promoting and raising awareness on the tech business community and the development of digital skills, showcasing the growing software businesses in the county as well as skills and educational activities.
Environment Zone
The Environment Zone encompasses Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership and Cornwall Sustainability Awards (CSA) with the overall focus being on Environmental Growth.