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• Our Long term Plan

◼ Process of preparation (engagement, partnership working, evidence-based
etc)

◼ Policy alignment (text and diagram including Industrial Strategy, UK Digital
Strategy, Post 16 Skills Plan, Cumbria LIS, Local Plan etc)
◼ Our Plan (holistic long-term economic strategy for Barrow over a 15-year
timeframe with a focus on the immediate opportunities for action as funded
by Town Deal and aligned bids)
◼ Anchored in a spatial context plan identifying opportunity areas for the holistic
strategy
• Our Town Investment Plan

◼ We want to build on and support our successes and strengths and the work
of private, public and third sector

◼ What are our asks of government (£) and collaborative asks (support for
aligned initiatives i.e. Future High Street, DfT, Homes England etc)

◼ Benefits (what will the Towns Fund projects deliver (£ in GVA, FTE jobs…and
outputs/wider benefits)

◼ Our priority projects (projects linked to Town Deal themes) including the
process by which these were selected (long list to short list) to include
persuasive double-page spread per project summary with visuals

◼ Other projects which came forward through the Long List which we will seek
to implement in another way

◼ Other projects funded by other sources
• Our Approach to Delivering Stronger Towns Fund

◼ Delivery roadmap

◼ Critical success factors (partnership, monitoring and evaluation etc)
◼ Performance indicators

◼ Governance structure
◼ Timescales

◼ Appraisal, assurance and scrutiny
• Acknowledgements (thanks and steer to more information)
• Annexes

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