Councillor Evans OBE (Leader) highlighted the following in his announcements:

The objective remains incredibly simple: to protect existing jobs and create as many new opportunities for our residents as we can during these difficult times.

Would do this by supporting our key sectors, helping our young people and using the spending power of the Council to kick-start the local economy

Whilst there was a lot to be optimistic about, with our local economy showing some resilience to Covid19 - it was important to understand that as a City we still have nearly 30% of our workforce on furlough and the government’s cliff edge of October will present a major social and economic challenge for this City.

We must continue to lobby government for the investment Plymouth deserves and needs - the best way I believe Plymouth City Council can support peoples livelihoods right now is by directly investing in the city -

1)         Create immediate job opportunities

2)         Give our business community to confidence they need to retain their staff and invest in the future.

launched Skills Launchpad supporting adults and young people with careers and skills advice. Our priorities are supporting young people with their future choices and helping adults facing redundancies. Feedback had been great and since we launched last week we have already supported nearly 900 people.

had secured £10m from the LEP this month to drive forward a series of oven ready capital projects in Plymouth including: Brunel Plaza, development of new business parks, Plymouth Science Park, City College and zero carbon homes.

Smart Sound – had also secured £1.8m to create 200 new jobs in the marine technology sector with a particular focus on autonomous vehicles. This will entail a new 5G network being instaled in Plymouth Sound making us a leading player in marine autonomy globally.

Building for Plymouth – A central pillar of Resurgam was a programme of building and regeneration projects that would create over 2500 construction jobs over the next 2 years.

Piermasters House – a Restored pier and new barbican restaurant and bar. This project was enabled, funded and driven by our brilliant Head of Land and Property James Watt.

Broadley Park – We topped out our latest direct development of industrial units 2 weeks ago which would create 25000ft2 of start-up units and 65 jobs.

We are undertaking feasibility on our fourth and final stage at Langage

Plymouth International and City Business Park – we are working up 2 further schemes working with the LEP.

Oceansgate Phase 2 – We secured our first tenant for phase 2 which would be completed in December – ESL Space and Defence Solutions who are a specialist Marine defence contractor.

We also have a further £50m of development projects in the pipeline that we hope to be able to announce over the next 2 months.

have confirmed the opening date for the Box as Tuesday 29th September. I am delighted to confirm that we will be holding an extended 3 day residents preview on September 25th, 26th & 27th. Tickets will be available to book from September 10th with an early bird offer for Box members.

announced that earlier this month we exchanged contracts on Brunel Plaza securing an £80m regeneration scheme for Plymouth and a new £40m health campus for Plymouth University. This scheme is so incredibly important to the future of our city both as a gateway to Plymouth and as a driver of economic growth and jobs.