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We don’t just offer strategies for economic development, we change the way our clients think about it. 

  • Innovation, Sector Development & Business Growth
  • Placemaking, Regeneration & Housing
  • Net Zero & Climate Resilience
  • Skills & Inclusive Growth
  • Infrastructure Planning & Finance

Innovation, Sector Development & Business Growth

Working across sectors and all aspects of innovation and business support policy we:

  • Help our clients to understand the implications of market and technology drivers for firms and places and how best to drive frontier innovation alongside the adoption of new technologies, skills and processes; 
  • Facilitate collaboration across business, academia and public sectors in order to maximise opportunities for innovation driven growth, smart specialisation and cluster development; and 
  • Secure funding and evaluate the implementation and impact of programmes designed to promote entrepreneurship and firm growth through targeted business support.
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Our Innovation & Enterprise projects

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UK Research & Innovation

Conducting the Evaluation of the Small Business Research Initiative

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Liverpool
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The University of Liverpool

Developing the Liverpool City Region+ Science & Innovation Audit

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Bruntwood SciTech/Stanhope consortium

Supporting Bruntwood’s submission to the international ID Manchester Competition

Placemaking, Regeneration & Housing

Learn more about how we work with clients to unlock the value of the cities, towns, and metropolitan areas where they live and work.

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Net Zero & Climate Resilience

Find out how we help our clients accelerate climate change action, decarbonise economies, communities, and sectors, and build climate resilience.

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Placemaking, Regeneration & Housing 

Working nationally in towns, cites and metropolitan areas we:

  • Help our clients to develop and implement sustainable placemaking strategies that improve the investment potential of local areas and quality of life of local residents;
  • Support delivery of complex, mixed use regeneration schemes through strategic investment in urban centres, brownfield sites, and Enterprise & Investment Zones; 
  • Unlock and accelerate new housing supply.
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Our Regeneration & Housing projects

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Leyland town centre plan
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South Ribble Borough Council

Supporting the development of the Leyland Town Investment Plan

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North East Local Enterprise Partnership

LGF and EZ Programmes Interim Evaluation

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Construction of new homes
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Homes England & MHCLG

Acting as lead consultant for the Housing Infrastructure Fund

Innovation, Sector Development & Business Growth

Learn how we are delivering innovative solutions to leading industry challenges.

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Net Zero & Climate Resilience

Find out how we help our clients accelerate climate change action, decarbonise economies, communities, and sectors, and build climate resilience.

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Net Zero & Climate Resilience

Working at community, local, regional and national levels we:

  • Help our clients to accelerate action on climate change, supporting the decarbonisation of economies, places and industries, and creating greater resilience to climate change impact;
  • Deliver evidence-based strategies across heat, mobility and power and integrating clean growth objectives into wider economic strategy in order to enable local economies to achieve both their net zero and growth ambitions; and    
  • Secure funding for new and innovative environmental sustainability initiatives and evaluate the carbon savings and wider impacts of net zero projects and programmes.
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Our Net Zero & Climate Resilience projects

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BEIS

Conducting the Evaluations of the North East & Yorkshire and Midlands Net Zero Hubs

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Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland Executive

Ex-post Evaluation of the Northern Ireland Renewables Obligation (NIRO)

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Queen’s University Belfast

Assessing the feasibility of a Zero Carbon Cooperative in Mid & East Antrim

Placemaking, Regeneration & Housing

Learn more about how we work with clients to unlock the value of the cities, towns, and metropolitan areas where they live and work.

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Skills & Inclusive Growth

Discover how we help our clients to adopt a more inclusive approach to economic strategy.

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Skills & Inclusive Growth

Working with local and regional partners we:

  • Help our clients to adopt a more inclusive approach to economic strategy by developing a better understanding of how growth can benefit local communities and creating a more integrated approach across business, people, infrastructure, and place-related policy.
  • Convene stakeholders and lead conversations to determine what inclusivity means to local areas, and co-create strategies and action plans to improve access to opportunities for all.
  • Analyse local labour markets and support the development of skills strategies designed to meet current and future business needs and provide well-defined skills pathways for local people.
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Our Skills & Inclusive Growth projects

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Cheshire West & Chester /Council

Co-creating the West Cheshire Inclusive Economy Strategy & Action Plan

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Newcastle City Council

Developing the Newcastle Inclusive Economy Strategy

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Wigan Borough Council

Developing a Skills Strategy for Wigan

Net Zero & Climate Resilience

Find out how we help our clients accelerate climate change action, decarbonise economies, communities, and sectors, and build climate resilience.

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Infrastructure Planning & Finance

Find out how we help investors, companies, and the public sector with infrastructure projects.

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Infrastructure Planning & Finance

As part of Steer, we work locally, nationally and internationally with colleagues:

  • In our Planning and Advisory divisions providing market-leading cities, infrastructure and transport planning, design and advisory services
  • At Amberside, who provide specialist financial and commercial infrastructure advisory expertise to public and private sectors;
  • Across Steer offering an integrated economic, finance and infrastructure advisory services to our clients to develop strategy, secure funding, and evaluate impacts across strategic connectivity, net zero and economic infrastructure initiatives.
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Our Infrastructure Planning & Finance projects

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World Bank

Emerging Lessons from the World Bank’s Quality Infrastructure Investment Program Portfolio

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The Northern Powerhouse Partnership

Reviewing the economic benefit of HS2 for the North of England

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Construction of new homes
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Homes England & MHCLG

Acting as lead consultant for the Housing Infrastructure Fund

Skills & Inclusive Growth

Discover how we help our clients to adopt a more inclusive approach to economic strategy.

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Innovation, Sector Development & Business Growth

Learn how we are delivering innovative solutions to leading industry challenges.

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