Infrastructure for growth

This project will deliver a new wharf facility at Stourton to enable transportation of freight from the Humber estuary into Leeds.

The LEP’s £1.3 million Growing Places Fund loan to The Witt Group helped the world-renowned industrial fan designer and manufacturer to move into new premises, and launch new product lines. The project will create over 20 new jobs by bringing previously outsourced work back to the City Region and equipping the company to take on larger and more complex contracts.

The LEP’s Growing Places Fund is providing two loans to enable development of the New Bolton Woods urban village, on the Canal Road corridor in Bradford, giving a major boost to plans for a thriving village centre that will include a primary school, nursery and health facilities, improved green spaces and sports pitch facilities.

The LEP’s Growing Places Fund is investing in a major £125 million business and residential development in South Bank Leeds that will see 316 low carbon homes and a footbridge for cyclists and pedestrians.

A £5 million Growing Places Fund loan from the LEP is helping to fund the redevelopment of brownfield land at the former Forge. A new railway station has been opened at the heart of the development and a new road junction created at the site's entrance onto the A65