North East England unveils UKREiiF programme
Urban regeneration, clean energy, and an AI Growth Zone are top of the agenda for the region, which will be holding events profiling its pipeline of development opportunities.
Led by North East Mayor Kim McGuinness, the delegation will aim to drive long-term growth and will profile an investment portfolio of more than £14bn development opportunities, launched at last year’s event.
The focus will be on supercharging the region’s creative industries, doubling the number of green energy jobs in the region to 50,000, unlocking multi-billion-pound clean energy investments, creating an affordable world-class public transport network, and establishing a pioneering AI Growth Zone set to create more than 5,000 jobs and attract a further £30bn in investment.
Highlights from the programme will include events such as: The Green Energy Revolution: Scale of investment opportunity; In conversation with Kim McGuinness, Mayor of the North East and Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire; an interactive session on Innovation Districts: What actually matters, what gets measured and what we’ve all been missing; and A Place to Call Home: Building communities, not just houses.
Speakers on the programme will be from Lloyds Banking Group, the BBC, British Property Federation, Office for Investment, QTS, Homes England, and British Esports Federation, among others.
The delegation to date includes Arup, FaulknerBrowns, Legends Global, Universities North East England, Atkins Realis, Avison Young, British Esport, Kada Research, Knight Frank, Muse, Newcastle International Airport, North East Housing Partnership, Pegasus Group, Robertson Group, Square One Law, The Glasshouse, Urban Foresight, Ward Hadaway, Port of Tyne and WSP.
North East Mayor, Kim McGuinness, said: “North East England is a region where we make it easy to invest and develop new opportunities – and where investment makes a real difference.
“The banks of the Rivers Tyne and Wear are the sites of the most ambitious programme of urban regeneration in the UK, in the cities of Newcastle, Sunderland, and Durham.
“Meanwhile our unique location facing the North Sea and strengths in advanced manufacturing are attracting billions of new investment in green energy and AI.
“For us, investment today is not just about the buildings, it’s about the people that make our region special: their talent, their ambition, creativity and skills. That’s how we are creating the home of real opportunity. We make things happen fast through public and private businesses working as a team to unlock new development.
“We’ve got a brand-new energy, and we don’t do things quietly, so I invite everyone to come and see what’s going on in the North East at UKREiiF.”
The full programme can be viewed here.
