Strategic economic development reports

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This report summarises the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan's, response to the Government White Paper: The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union.

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Mayor of London

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This report, through a range of stakeholder interviews and case studies, examines the existing context of meanwhile uses in London, its challenges and opportunities and how the practice can be better supported, and its valuable assets and outcomes recognised and harnessed.

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Arup (for Mayor of London)

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The Mayor’s vision of ‘good growth’ is set out in the draft New London Plan and draft Mayor’s Economic Development Strategy. It recognises that London needs to grow in a different way from how it has done in the past. This report focuses particularly on outlining plans for a ‘New London Mix’ of housing and commercial space, which could support growth and provide much needed workspaces - increasing current industrial floor space supply by up to 20 per cent.

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LEAP

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In 2018, the Mayor of London commissioned leading economic analysts Cambridge Econometrics to study the potential impact of different Brexit scenarios on London and the whole of the UK. The aim of the study was to develop scenarios to model five possible outcomes for the UK and London of the UK leaving the European Union Customs Union and Single Market.

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Cambridge Econometrics

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Productivity, or the efficiency with which production inputs (e.g. labour and capital) are being utilised to produce a given level of economic output. Increasing productivity is widely seen as a key enabler for improving living standards in the long term and as a necessary (but not in itself sufficient) condition for inclusive economic growth. It is therefore a key topic in any industrial strategy, including the Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) for London.
This paper summarises the findings a literature review on the effectiveness of policy levers to enhance productivity at a regional level.

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GLA Economics

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This report reviews the latest evidence to understand why labour productivity is so high in London overall and why its growth has stalled recently. This is a critical issue because, in the long-run, increasing productivity is crucial for economic growth and improving living standards. Boosting productivity growth is
unsurprisingly at the centre of the Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) for London.

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GLA Economics

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Open workspace providers want to provide the right space, for the right people, in the right place at the right price. They need to make their spaces work for all Londoners. Recent rises in rents and rates have significantly affected both open workspace
provision as well as micros and small businesses in the capital. This paper explores the unintended consequences of recent changes to business rates and how they affect London’s open workspaces.

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Capital Enterprise, WorkWILD, Nordicity and Original Futures, for LEAP

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Many small, community focused workspace providers offer significant community benefit but increasing costs mean that they are at risk of being squeezed out of the market by larger,
more commercial providers.

Open workspace providers and other stakeholders engaged in driving London’s SME community are supportive of a voluntary workspace accreditation scheme which will recognise and reward community impact. It would be useful for policy makers, practitioners and grant givers contributing to keeping London’s workspace open and affordable for all Londoners.

This document sets out a framework for the accreditation, selection criteria and a scoring system.

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Capital Enterprise, WorkWILD, Nordicity and Original Futures, for LEAP

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This document summarises extensive research into the impacts of the 2016 Business Rates Revaluation on London’s open workspaces. It draws upon a linked examination of the potential to introduce a voluntary accreditation system for workspaces with community and social impact which would raise standards and allow local authorities and micro businesses and local communities to understand better the value of open workspaces and how to support them.

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Capital Enterprise, WorkWILD, Nordicity and Original Futures, for LEAP

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The report, part 1 of 2, researches the future of London’s Central Activities Zone (CAZ), to assess the impact of both the COVID-19 global pandemic and Brexit on the area in the medium and long
term. This report, Phase 1, includes office use trends in the CAZ, the CAZ ecosystem and the interaction of the CAZ with the rest of London and the UK.

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Arup, Gerald Eve and LSE (for GLA)