Investment
From 1 April 2024, the responsibility for LEP functions across the Enterprise M3 LEP region has transferred to Hampshire County Council and Surrey County Council.
The Enterprise M3 Board met for the last time in March 2024 and Enterprise M3 LEP is no longer operating as an organisation.
For any enquiries relating to economic development across the counties of Hampshire and Surrey, please visit the Hampshire County Council website and Business Surrey respectively.
Please note that Enterprise M3 LEP staff have transferred to Hampshire County Council to continue to deliver services and activities in Hampshire, including the Growth Hub, the Careers Hub, work on key business sectors, and trade and investment.
They can be contacted by emailing growth.hub@hants.gov.uk and careers.hub@hants.gov.uk respectively. Alternatively, please contact the economic.development@hants.gov.uk.
Investment
The aims of this project are to:
These aims will be achieved through the creation and provision of a physical base for a supportive and collaborative, shared working environment, offering a combination of “state of the art” facilities (including Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) services developed in partnership with the 5G Innovation Centre in Guildford that game developers can use for future marketing and sales activity), and flexible working arrangements together with essential support services for new and fledgling businesses, in order to support an increase in the number of business start-ups in this key sector and help existing businesses ‘scale-up’, and so build upon the strength of the sector along the Guildford-Aldershot axis whilst contributing to the growth of the digital sector within the EM3 sub-region
The scheme will deliver:
This initiative will act as both a catalyst to the wider economic and physical regeneration of Aldershot – an EM3 LEP “Step Up” town – through encouraging increased investment in the town, whilst also benefiting from the impact of this regeneration – in terms of new residential development and resultant population growth as well as increased commercial, retail and ‘night-time’ economy development - in the longer term.
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End date:
Amount financed: £0.87mil
Total cost: £2.14mil
Status: Completed
Project Lead: Chris Quintana
Themes: AI & Digital
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