The Coastal West Sussex Partnership has launched a three-stage programme of workshops to define an economic narrative for the area, aiming to support the future development of a sustainable economic strategy to benefit all.
Hosted by regenerative place designer Jenny Andersson, founder of The Really Regenerative Centre CIC, the Partnership has held two workshops so far to understand what has shaped the economy in coastal West Sussex over the years and determine what kind of economy it wants to grow in the future.
The desire to create an economic narrative comes after the Partnership meeting that looked at a data report last autumn which explored the critical challenges and opportunities across the coastal West Sussex area. This report highlighted the low skills economy plus some of the infrastructure and intergenerational challenges, but also illustrated signs of relatively strong growth, particularly in Worthing, alongside new growth in some business clusters such as med tech, creative and digital technologies, horticulture and viticulture, while also highlighting greater opportunities associated with land and ocean regeneration and pockets of resilience in our tourism and visitor economy.
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