our priorities business plan multi area agreement financial information

Our Priorities

PUSH is committed to long term, managed and conditional economic growth and regeneration and to the delivery of the housing, infrastructure, facilities and services necessary to achieve it. In order to conserve and enrich our natural and historic environment and enhance the quality of life of anyone who lives in, works in or visits the sub-region our priorities are:

• to promote economic success by seeking to create a diverse economy where business, enterprise and individuals can flourish, underpinned by modern skills

• to provide the homes we need in sustainable communities

• to build more cohesive communities and reduce inequalities, closing the gap between deprived areas and the economic performance of the PUSH sub-region

• to invest in infrastructure and sustainable solutions

• to promote a better quality of life by safeguarding our environment and investing in our urban areas

These are long-term endeavours require a sustained focus over at least the next 20 years. The PUSH Business Plan, the document which sets out how we we will deliver these priorities, explains what we will do in the next couple of years to lay the foundations for delivery. The Business Plan is also underpinned by the South Hampshire Agreement.

Business Plan

MAA

Capital Programme

Multi Area Agreement

The South Hampshire Agreement is a Multi-Area Agreement (MAA) between PUSH, TfSH, Government and its agencies, specifically The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Job Centre Plus (JCP), Learning and Skill Council (now renamed as the Skills Funding Agency) and Business Link. The MAA sets out a range of agreed targets for delivery by 2010-11 (in areas such as employment, economic development, skills, housing and transport) underpinned by a number of enabling measures (often called freedoms and flexibilities) which provide for new ways of working between the signatories to the agreement.

Our spending priorities

Our spending priorities throughout the Business Plan period will be:

• developing the economic agenda and in particular supporting the sub-regional economy during the current challenging economic conditions. With partners, we will prioritise the Eastleigh River Side and initiatives affecting learning and skills and employability

• providing the conditions to facilitate and encourage housing delivery. This means bringing forward urban sites and regeneration initiatives, resourcing preparatory work on urban extensions, the two Strategic Development Areas and meeting milestones in the preparation of Local Development Documents

• enabling transport projects that support the above in line with the TfSH strategy

• preparing non-transport infrastructure projects for the longer term

• measures to ensure quality places for new and existing communities

• exploring innovative ways to secure substantial further resources to ensure the strategy can be delivered in the short, medium and long term