cc: t.d.davies@uea,t.oriordan@uea,m.hulme@uea
date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:18:17 +0100
from: Vincent Watts <v.watts@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fwd: peterborough environment business cluster
to: s.gerrard@uea,r.hey@uea

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You may be interested in this note from ukceed. It could be relevant to the 
Business Environment Club and /or possible partners for carbon trust/save 
uea from carbon
Its a little old but I am sure still relevant


>From: Jonathan Selwyn <JSelwyn@ukceed.org>
>To: v.watts@uea.ac.uk
>Subject: peterborough environment business cluster
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:33:11 -0000
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>Dear Vince
>I recently had separate meetings with both Peter Lee and Steve Osborne at
>which they both suggested I send you some further information on our
>proposed environment business cluster.  I have therefore attached our draft
>working paper which provides a first attempt at mapping the cluster and
>identifies some potential outcomes.
>The cluster concept came out of a seminar we held last May upon our
>relocation to Peterborough.  We were interested in the significant number of
>environment sector organisations here and whether they carried out any joint
>projects/training etc.  Also, we had been aware that although there had been
>much discussion of cluster development regionally and nationally, noone
>seemed to have identified one of the key sectors for future economic growth.
>The seminar established that there were no formal links between most of the
>organisations but that there was a great deal of interest in the idea of
>establishing some sort of coordinating activity.  Since then we have had a
>couple of meetings of a small adhoc working group and then last month the
>first meeting of an enlarged steering group involving:
>myself, David Arnold-Foster (Chief Exec, English Nature), Ian Ripley
>(Director of Finance, Envrionment Agency Anglian Region) Trevor Gibson (Head
>of Environmental Services, Peterborough City Council), Paul Woodcock (Head
>of Sustainability, Anglian Water), Dick Yates (Head of Environment,
>Perkins), Charles Haynes (Manager, Posford Duvivier), Richard Donoyou (MD of
>Peterborough Environment), Gloria Milne (chief exec, Greater Peterborough
>Investment Agency).
>It was agreed that the success of the cluster should be measured on its
>delivery of substantive achievements in key environment areas such as
>renewable energy and waste, rather than just in terms of its networking
>ability.  The integration of training and educational elements within the
>initiative were also seen as crucial.  We have the commitment of the
>Learning and Skills Council for the former and a link up with appropriate
>higher education establishments was seen as a priority.  Although we have a
>nacent university being developed here through Loughborough, some kind of
>link-up with UEA would be extremely welcome.
>We currently have a bid in to DETR through Go-East which would provide 40%
>of the funding to get the cluster up and running and we are fairly confident
>of success.  We hope it may be possible for EEDA to provide some funding
>through the ICF mechanism and the members of the steering group have also
>suggested their respective organisations could contribute.
>I hope you find the enclosed of interest and if you require any further
>information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
>By the way, you may know that UK CEED has had links with UEA in recent years
>- Tim O'Rierdon was a founder Board member of the Centre back in 1984.
>regards
>Jonathan Selwyn
>Executive Director
>UK CEED
>Priestgate House
>3/7 Priestgate
>Peterborough PE1 1JN
>01733 311644
>www.ukceed.org
>
>  <<clusters paper v2.doc>>

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