LOBBYING
The Chamber lobbies on behalf of its members in a number of forums including the WAVENEY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP. The Chamber has contributed significantly to the 2020 Vision for Waveney
The Chairman of the partnership has a seat on the board of the Local Strategic Partnership covering the area of Economic development and Enterprise for Waveney.
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Dear Transport group and colleagues, trust you are well?
You will no doubt have heard that Nottingham has been given approval to start charging for workplace parking.
You will also be aware we did a piece of work, as a committee, that unequivocally opposed the 'initiative'
In light of the Nottingham approval, we have re-worked our Suffolk Chamber Work Place Parking Levy position paper. This is attached.Workplace_Parking_Levy_7_August_09_(2).doc
We will once again be reminding those decision makers in Suffolk LA's, who no doubt will be on a watching brief re Nottingham, that the Suffolk business community is opposed to such an initiative. We will ensure that as a transport committee this is one of the 'thematic' issues we champion.
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PROPOSED CHANGES TO LOWESTOFT TO LONDON RAIL LINKS your views are sought please?
Please see attached from National Express re proposed changes to services to London.
To cut to the chase, the proposal most affecting this sub region is to remove the through services to London (you will need to change at Ipswich). This will be compensated for by an improved hourly service to Ipswich BUT ONLY IF THE BECCLES LOOP GOES AHEAD. If that doesn't happen we are worse off.
This Chamber needs to make representations here and Paul Moss at WDC has agreed to collate responses if we could get something to him by the end of August 2009. Please email me and I will then send a complete chamber response to WDC on behalf of businesses
The attachements below reflects the issues in full
NXEA_HLOS_TT_Consultation_Mainline_Metro_&_Rural.doc
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Tue 11/08/2009 16:01 SUFFOLK CHAMBER LOBBYING to date:
Dear Transport committee members and colleagues,
As you know we will be responding National Expresses consultation on service improvements that they are planning as a result of the extra trains they will be providing over the next 2-3 years.
We have spent a little time this afternoon looking through the specific consultation papers regarding the improved services to be introduced.
In short, when you read it, the response is ‘what’s not to like?’. Overall there will be more trains and more carriages on some routes all the time, and some routes at peak times.
The essence is to inject new trains onto London to Stansted and London to Cambridge services and then to re-allocate displaced rolling stock elsewhere.
For Suffolk's community this will mean there will be more trains, more carriages but not new rolling stock.
They are also outlining new timetabling issues.
It is for this reason in particular we draw your attention to, and a summary is attached of the propsed changes.
What we are trying to gauge is, ‘’does anyone have any specific comment to make about particular routes / timetables from individual stations.’’
Turn around is tight I am afraid, I’d need thoughts by Tuesday 18th, so we can pull our response together and send by the end of that week.
See attachements below
National_Express_summary_of_improved_services.doc
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WAVENEY SUSTAINABALE COMMUNITIES STRATEGY
Please download the article below that reflects the business views for changing the Waveney Sustainable Communities Strategy http://www.waveney.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C4518302-B935-4907-9987-C37A1BC80F3C/0/waveney_sustainable_communities_strategy.pdf
I trust that you find this of interest but as always welcome any further comments from our businesses in the area. Linda see below for the download Chamber_Visioning_report_2031_(2).doc
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FIRST REVIEW OF SHORELINE MANAGEMENT PLAN – LOWESTOFT NESS TO FELIXSTOWE LANDGUARD POINT PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Dear Stakeholder
The beginning of the public consultation period, 1st July to 30th September 2009. The full Draft Shoreline Management Plan will be presented for public comment at six exhibitions to present the full Draft SMP for the Suffolk coastline.
Each exhibition will be attended by Members and officers of the Partner organisations, along with representatives from Terry Oakes Associates Ltd, who are project managing the review, and Haskoning UK.
The review website (www.suffolksmp2.org.uk) contains further details of the public consultation, including the exhibition schedule and maps of the venues (at www.suffolksmp2.org.uk/exhibition) and the final Draft SMP. If you are unable to view or download any of these, please contact me and I will arrange for the materials to be sent on a CD for you. - Terry Oakes Project Manager for SCDC
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LOBBYING GOVERNMENT on 3rd RIVER CROSSING
From: "10 Downing Street" <>
To: "e-petition signatories" <>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:19:56 +0000
Subject: Government response to petition 'thirdcrossing'
You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "Support a third river crossing in Lowestoft."
The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can Read the Government's response: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14933.asp
Prime Minister's Office
Petition information - http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/thirdcrossing/
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SUB-REGIONAL MEETINGS WITH GREAT YARMOUTH CHAMBER
Your Executive committee has been in regular consultations with the Chamber of Commerce for the sub-region of Great Yarmouth to ensure that we are all working to gain the maximum benefit for our members.
Additionally we have regular Business Interest group Meetings to explore issues with our urban regeneration Company 1st East. Minutes of meetings can be downloaded at the foot of the page
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TRANSPORT & INFRASTRUCTURE REPRESENTATION & LOBBYING
Lowestoft & Waveney Chamber of Commerce ensures the views of members are heard and acted upon. We represent a strong single voice on local, national and international issues.
The Transport Group lobbies on a number of areas and below you will find minutes of meetings in chronological order with various attachments, letters and replies in areas where we have been working hard on your behalf.
Paul Briddon the Chamber's Vice President is chair of the transport group and a member of the Suffolk Trasnport group. Paul is happy to hear from any member who has concerns that may be affecting their business in this area.
Paul is a corporate services Partner in the Lowestoft office of Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants Tel: 01502 563921 Fax: 01502 584630 Email:
He has a particular interest in the energy sector, which is a major contributor to the region's economy.
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TRANSPORT & INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING The minutes of all of the latest meetings CAN NOW BEEN DOWNLOADED at the foot of this page.
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Updated 16.03.08
Draft REGIONAL ECONOMIC STRTAEGY for the East of England - consultation report published
As you are aware, at the end of last year we went out to consultation on the draft regional economic strategy for the East of England 2008-31. Over the 12-week consultation we received 231 formal responses to the consultation, some 36 per cent more than for the consultation on the existing RES in 2004. This represents a real commitment from partners to the future prosperity of the region, for which we are very grateful.
Over the last three months we have been carefully processing all of the responses and undertaking further analysis where required, and I am writing to inform you that the report on the consultation has now been published on the EEDA website at http://www.eeda.org.uk/resreview/.
