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What do we need to change?<br />

The spatial response<br />

Greater Norwich sub-region<br />

Norwich Research Park<br />

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Greater Norwich sub-region<br />

A science city and regional financial centre<br />

Overview<br />

368,000 people live in Greater Norwich and the Norwich policy area has<br />

a population of 230,000, which is predicted to grow to 280,000 by 2025<br />

comparable to the present size of Nottingham. About 123,000 people<br />

work in the Norwich area, which makes it the largest lab<strong>our</strong> market in the<br />

East of England and it is the fifth most popular retail centre in England.<br />

Greater Norwich has a challenging growth agenda; the regional spatial<br />

strategy proposes growth of 33,000 dwellings and 35,000 additional jobs<br />

by 2021.<br />

Assets and opportunities<br />

• Norwich Research Park (NRP), one of Europe’s largest sites of<br />

biotechnology research, already generates a number of high-value<br />

spin-out companies (eg in drug development, DNA profiling, genomics<br />

and software development). NRP supports 6,500 jobs and 900<br />

postgraduate research sciences students and includes the John Innes<br />

Centre, the Institute of Food Research, the Sainsbury Laboratory and<br />

the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Trust<br />

• the University of East Anglia is an international leader in areas such as<br />

climate change, health and life sciences<br />

• highest graduate retention rates in the East of England<br />

• an advanced automotive engineering cluster and enterprise hub based<br />

at Hethel, with Lotus as an internationally renowned innovative<br />

company as its anchor<br />

• existing and emerging sectoral strengths in finance and business<br />

services, biggest cluster of creative industries in the region, food<br />

processing, environment and bioscience and automotive engineering.<br />

Norwich supports more than 50 regional or national headquarters, with<br />

companies including Norwich Union, Marsh, Virgin, Bayer Crop Science,<br />

Colmans, and Adobe Systems<br />

• Norwich City has the highest job density of any local authority area in<br />

the UK outside London<br />

• a vibrant city centre with extensive cultural, leisure, sports and heritage<br />

offer, with the largest collection of heritage assets in any UK provincial<br />

city and access to the Broads and the Norfolk coast<br />

• a strong quality of life with attractive urban and rural living environments<br />

• one of the UK’s largest open access free wireless broadband networks<br />

• Norwich city centre is by far the highest-ranking retail centre in the<br />

region and fifth in the UK<br />

• Norwich International Airport as a direct economic driver and<br />

connecting the sub-region to international markets and Amsterdam<br />

Schipol as an international hub.

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