Ellesmere Port Industrial Area
Ellesmere Port
Our Story
The Ellesmere Port Industrial Area is one of the largest industrial employment clusters in the North West region, and one of the most significant clusters users in the country. The area is characterised by international and nationally significant industrial facilities and users, currently contributing to around 5% of the UK’s CO2 emissions.
Cheshire West and Chester Council announced a Climate Emergency declaration on 21st May 2019 with a target of 2045, ahead of the UK’s overall commitment to be Net Zero by 2050. Since this declaration the council has engaged with a range of partners to develop its plans and response to the emergency.
The project presents a development and infrastructure framework containing a vision, themes and strategic objectives for the Ellesmere Port Area. The shared vision is to form one of the first Net Zero carbon technologies. The project could bring in more than £1.8 billion worth of investment for jobs and the borough’s green economy.
Our Solution
We are striving to become one of the UK’s first ‘SuperPlaces’, supporting the UK Government’s ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ that will deliver a network of world leading clean industry, power, and transport companies innovating new solutions to tackle the Climate Emergency. To do this we will look to connect local people to job, skills, and training opportunities in high value, innovative and growing employment sectors. Improving the connections between local people and opportunities through awareness raising was well as sustainable travel connections to the area.
We aim to be at the forefront of research, development and implementation of a new generation of industrial processes that helps us respond to the climate emergency, and ultimately become the world’s first Net Zero cluster. This will act as a global example for how a range of low carbon and sustainable technologies can be delivered at an industrial scale.
By placing Ellesmere Port on the world stage, the wider region of Cheshire will benefit from a major profile boost whilst safeguarding existing employers, allowing expansion and indigenous growth, and helping to foster a diverse range of job opportunities which will create a sustainable economy and support the Government’s Levelling Up agenda.