Lancashire County Council
Key Competitive Attractions
Lancashire has a lot to offer new businesses, from our expanding creative industries sector, to the booming tourism market and high quality of life. We maintain high-quality managed workspace for companies, regardless of size, offering planning guidance for relocating businesses and developers.
Businesses located here benefit from excellent communications links several major population centres, international airports and freight ports via the M60, M65, M6 motorways, with Manchester within half an hour's drive.
Assistance and Support For New Business Investors
- Cambridge City Council owns a number of light industrial, office suites, business centres and retail units available to rent.
- Business signposting for advice relating to environmental sustainability, data and research, training and education services, business events and funding.
- Licences.
- Planning services.
- Advice, inspections and signposting to training relating to Food safety, Health and Saftey and Pests.
- Considerate contractor scheme and awards.
- Information on new development/growth areas.
- Love Cambridge - trading name for the Cambridge City Centre Partnership, it brings together a wide range of interests, across both the public and private sectors and encourages them to work together proactively on a range of projects to improve the city. http://www.love-cambridge.co.uk/
Other business assistance in the area includes well established Business Support Networks, such as Cambridge Network and St John's Innovation Centre, which provide early stage knowledge-based companies with business advice, strategic consultancy, introductions and flexible accommodation. The soon to be completed Hauser Forum, (due to open in early 2010) will be a mixed-use development at the University’s West Cambridge site. The Forum will be home to Cambridge Enterprise, the Ideas Space and Seminar Centre. The Ideas Space will serve as a space for innovators to come and exchange ideas, aiming to create a virtual community across the region.
