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The Northern Way was a collaboration initiated in February 2004 between the three northern regional development agencies (RDAs),
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and
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at the instigation of the then
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to focus on issues important for the whole of the North of England with a dimension larger than could be tackled by one region alone — for example, transport infrastructure, or marketing the North internationally. The body was tasked to address the £30 billion output gap between the North and the average for England as a whole. Although originally intended to have a twenty-year lifespan, the initiative's activity came to an end in March 2011, when its parent regional development agencies were wound up by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.


Themes

To lead the delivery of its objective, an independently chaired steering group was established whose members had a range of different
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interests. The Steering Group launched ''Moving Forward: The Northern Way Growth Strategy'' in September 2004, which focused on four themes:
  1. Developing new
    City Region City region is a term in use since about 1950 by urbanists, economists and urban planners to mean a metropolitan area and hinterland, often having a shared administration. Typically, it denotes a city, conurbation or urban zone with multiple admi ...
    plans to work across administrative boundaries in the eight major conurbations of the North, namely:
* North East England: **
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, Darlington and Hartlepool) **
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) * North West England: **
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: ** Hull and Humber Ports - (
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  1. Key investment priorities were chosen that could exploit economic activity across all three northern Development Agency regions.
These investment priorities are: * bring more people into employment * strengthen the North’s knowledge base
innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entit ...
* build a more
entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...
ial North * capture a larger share of
global trade International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services. (see: World economy) In most countries, such trade represents a significant s ...
: key clusters * meet employer
skills A skill is the learned ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of w ...
needs * the North’s connectivity * create truly
sustainable communities The term "sustainable communities" has various definitions, but in essence refers to communities planned, built, or modified to promote sustainable living. Sustainable communities tend to focus on environmental and economic sustainability, urban in ...
* market the North to the world.
  1. Working together differently and collaborating to make the most of £100 million
    public sector The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises. Public sectors include the public goods and governmental services such as the military, law enforcement, inf ...
    investment in the North and equivalent
    private sector The private sector is the part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is owned by private groups, usually as a means of establishment for profit or non profit, rather than being owned by the government. Employment The ...
    investment.
  2. Influencing local, regional and national decision-makers to ensure their policies and programmes support Northern Way goals.


Growth fund

The Growth Fund, worth £100 million, was launched in September 2004, and in June 2005 the Northern Way published its
Business plan A business plan is a formal written document containing the goals of a business, the methods for attaining those goals, and the time-frame for the achievement of the goals. It also describes the nature of the business, background information on ...
, setting out how to spend the money. The eight City Region partnerships published their City Region Development Plans to show how they would work together to grow their economies to address the output gap.


References


External links


The Northern Way official site
(Dead link), internet archive image (2004-11-26) https://web.archive.org/web/20041126015635/http://www.thenorthernway.co.uk/
Yorkshire Forward Website

The Northern Way Transport Compact
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The Economic Case for Transport Investment in the North
- retrospective review of activities 2006-2011
Evaluation of The Northern Way 2004-2008 (summary)

Evaluation of The Northern Way 2008-2011 (summary)
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