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Find out how we can help you move to Hertsmere

  • Email economic.development@hertsmere.gov.uk

 

Why should you consider bringing your business to Hertsmere or develop your ideas here?

Because the borough...

  • has significant assets
  • is determined to overcome challenges
  • is presented with a number of opportunities

 

 Hertsmere Strategic Context Map

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Significant assets

  • Excellent strategic location abutting London
  • Direct access to motorway (M25, M1 and A1 (M)) and rail networks including an 18-minute rail journey to London St Pancras (and onward international and southern rail services)
  • Excellent connections to Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted Airports.
  • High quality homes and countryside, a private airfield and places of interest, making the area and attractive location to invest, live, work and learn in and to visit.
  • Existing employment sites at Elstree Way, Centennial Business Park and Cranborne Road Industrial Area.
  • Home to Elstree Studios, BBC Elstree and arsenal Football Club's training ground.
  • Proactive council which saved Elstree Studios by acquiring and investing in the site.
  • Strong socio-economic profile of the borough.
  • Schools, both public and private, are some of the best in the country.
 

Determined to overcome challenges: 

  • To encourage growth which reinforces the principles of London's Green Belt whilst promoting the borough as a place to invest and do business.
  • To work with the rail companies to deal with issues of overcrowded and congested trains.
  • To promote infrastructure programs to deal with high levels of congestion on main transport routes.
  • To find ways of opening up key employment sites in order to tackle poor access.
  • To revitalise town centres in Borehamwood, Potters Bar and Bushey with a concerted and cohesive approach.
  • To address poor gateways and entrances to generate a sense of place and arrival.
  • To enhance those areas suffering from poor quality built environment and public realm.
  • To ensure that there is access to a variety of further education provision to upskill local people whilst meeting the current and future needs of businesses.
  • To tackle the pockets of deprivation characterised by low skills, high unemployment, low incomes and poorer living conditions.
 

Presented with a number of opportunities: 

  • Several development sites strategically positioned along the A1 and M25 corridors that will help achieve the economic growth ambitions of the borough and the Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership. 
  • In particular, the borough has sites that are suited for locating niche pharmaceutical industries and major sports developments.
  • A New University Technical College to help promote the creative sector and provide young people with the skills to keep Hertsmere at the cutting edge of film, television and creative media.
  • The chance to capture the untapped footfall associated wit transport connectivity and the film and television industry.
  • To build on the emerging evening economy.
  • An enterprising dynamic local authority wiling to work in new ways and provide strong strategic and community leadership.

 

 Hertsmere South East Context

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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