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Junction 13 of the M1", according to a report in Bedford Today. "The Strategic Economic Plan details how SEMLEP will by 2020 grow the economy by £10.2billion, create an additional 94,700 jobs and build an extra 70,600 homes across its patch in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes, Cherwell District and Aylesbury Vale District," reports MK Web and Bedford Today.
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Petford was reported by the BBC as saying "the development would 'secure the future' of the university". In the BBC report Councillor David Mackintosh, leader of Northampton Borough Council, said the plans were "tremendous news" for the development of Northampton as a university town. He added: "Bringing the university into the Waterside area is a key part of the Northampton Alive regeneration programme and would be a massive boost to the local economy, as well as creating vital links with business in the Waterside Enterprise Zone.
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English regions to help local leaders and businesses, according to a BBC report which added the aim was to "devolve power from Whitehall and re-invigorate the big cities that had fuelled the growth and wealth that the country had enjoyed in past decades". The report led to the coalition government establishing Local Enterprise Partnerships, replacing the Regional Development Agencies.
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Advanced Manufacturing Centre at its Northampton site, according to one report from freshbusinessthinking.com. The facility, the first of its kind in the UK, will manufacture components and assemble some of the world's most advanced engines to global automotive manufacturers, the report said.
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as to how wealth might be more effectively created in the UK. The
Chancellor announced the terms of the review on 21 March 2012. The result was 'No Stone Unturned', which was largely accepted by government, and included 89 recommendations to help industry. One of its key aims was to move £49bn from
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announced it would relocate its campuses to the Zone's eastern section. In a BBC online report it said: "The university is planning to relocate from its current sites in St George's Avenue and
Boughton Green Road, to a 55-acre site at Nunn Mills Road in the town's new Waterside Enterprise Zone."
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