Mayor Houchen’s plan for Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool is a plan to create good quality, well paid local jobs for local people.
At Teesworks, schemes are already underway that will create thousands of jobs in the cleaner, safer and healthier industries of the future.
Elsewhere:
- More than 1,000 business have engaged with our Business Compass support service this year, with 700 companies electing to receive intensive face-to-face support
- £6million of direct grant support for capital investment provided to business which will create and safeguard 700 jobs
- A pipeline of new private sector investment of more than £3.5 billion, with the potential to create and safeguard more than 9,700 jobs
- £13million of additional funding launched to help Tees Valley’s small and medium sized companies to grow
- Invested £2.4million for superfast broadband
- More than £32million of private sector capital investment supported
- A £1million apprenticeship support scheme to fund 100% of the apprentices’ wages in their first six months of employment, and 50% for the remainder of the apprenticeship, up to a maximum of two years to encourage businesses to offer employment to more 16-20-year-olds
- £183,000 for Central Park infrastructure improvements in Darlington
- £8.3 million for the new Northern School of Art campus in Hartlepool
- £3.2million for Salters Lane Ingenium Park in Darlington
- £17.5million for the new National Horizons Centre in Darlington
- £7.6 million for a new dock bridge in Middlehaven, unlocking brownfield land for development
- £7.6million for the new Tees Advanced Manufacturing Park in Middlesbrough
- £370,000 for the Rail Heritage Quarter in Darlington
- £6.3million for the Kirkleatham Catering Academy in Redcar
- £300,000 for infrastructure improvements between Offshore Structures Britain and Wilton Engineering in Redcar
- £830,000 for NETA skills centre refurbishment
- £9.7million for the CPI Healthcare Futures Centre
- £4million for A689 Wynyard improvements
- £1million for South Bank Wharf roundabout
- £2million for the Kirkleatham walled garden project in Redcar
- £1million for the Billingham bio-pharmaceutical campus
- £3.2million for Feethams grade A office space in Darlington
- £3million for the new open-access technology centre for MPI
- £100,000 to kick start plans for Boho Next Generation
- Launched a £8.3million Sustainable Access to Employment programme
- Established a £7.5million Routes to Work programme to support 2,500 disadvantaged people back into employment
- Launched a £1.3million Apprenticeship Fund
- £200million investment deal with the Teesside Pension Fund to support local projects
- £12.8million secured from the Housing Infrastructure Fund for two schemes unlocking 3,350 homes in Darlington and Stockton
- £4.6million for Liberty’s ground-breaking powder metals project, boosting our research credentials while creating good quality jobs
