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Supporting Economic Growth in Norfolk in 2022

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Business | Places | People

Norfolk County Council is committed to making Norfolk a county where businesses, organisations, and communities continue to thrive together. They have done this by allowing better access to services such as rolling out better broadband across Norfolk and building major infrastructure projects to deliver vital growth to the whole of Norfolk. View their full report here 2022-23 Business Rates Report

Business

They have been supporting economic growth in Norfolk. See below some of the ways they have helped businesses this past year.

Place

Norfolk County Council have also been focussing on places, in particular the £21.4 million operations and maintenance campus is a partnership project, in collaboration with Great Yarmouth Borough Council and the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). It is estimated around 650 new jobs will be created by the new Operations and Maintenance Campus.

Norwich Western Link start of construction is currently programmed for late 2024 with the road open for use in late 2025.

Find out more in the video below.

People

Norfolk has had a full year where Apprenticeship starts have increased – for the first time, following five years of a decline. Norfolk has seen 5118 new apprenticeship starts throughout the year. Norfolk has seen over double the growth seen in national England data (8.63%).

Skills bootcamps across Norfolk and Suffolk are currently offering opportunities in a range of sectors/industries. This includes digital marketing, software engineering, web design, construction management skills, CAD for construction and domestic retrofit.

Find out more about below.

 

Cllr Andrew Jamieson, cabinet member for finance at Norfolk County Council discusses what business rates are, and how we use them to grow Norfolk’s economy, as part of the business rate consultation.

Simon George, Executive Director Finance and Commercial Services at Norfolk County Council gives a presentation explaining the Business Rates Consultation 2022.

You can respond to anything raised in the consultation by emailing haveyoursay@norfolk.gov.uk