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Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership to be wound up

Martin Redfern

Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership area map Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership area map

The government has confirmed that the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership will be wound up in April next year.

Local Enterprise Partnerships were created in 2011 following the abolition of regional development agencies to drive regional economic development via infrastructure development and skills training.

Its assets and functions are to be transferred to Devon County Council, or a new Devon combined authority should current negotiations result in one.

England’s other 35 Local Enterprise Partnerships will also be dissolved.

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