Mayors unveil 'The Great North'

'THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO COME'

- By ANDREW SPENCE

MAYORS from across the North of England have unveiled plans to drive investment in their regions.

Mayors met in Leeds, at UKReiiF 2025, the UK’s leading investment summit, to announce the new partnership which seeks to unlock the North’s economic potential, potentially adding £118 billion to the British economy through investments in key sectors including clean energy, defence and advanced manufacturing and creative industries.

The Mayors have identified a number of opportunities that they hope The Great North partnership will help them accomplish, such as:

■An energy coast proposition down the East coast powering the “clean energy revolution”

■The Northern Arc and White Rose Plan which are transport initiatives stretching from the North West across the Pennines into Yorkshire, anchored by investment in the Transpennine Route Upgrade

■Advanced materials and manufacturing corridors bringing together Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, with links into key neighbouring economies, or between the North East and Tees Valley

■The One Creative North partnership which will build on and boost the North of England’s creative industries, driving inward investment and economic growth, and delivering new opportunities for creatives and communities to thrive