Lancashire LEP launches Transport Strategy to put the county at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse

The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has published its latest Strategic Transport Prospectus which sets out the opportunities for Lancashire with regards to unlocking substantial economic potential via better transport connectivity.

The 48-page report, entitled Lancashire – as part of interconnected and productive northern powerhouse, outlines the LEP’s national, regional and local transport priorities in the short, medium and long term and conveys the LEP’s vision of a physically connected and economically integrated Lancashire.

Jennifer Mein, leader of Lancashire County Council and chair of Transport for Lancashire, the LEP’s strategic body for the delivery of transport policy, said: “This is the most extensive and ambitious transport plan Lancashire has ever put forward.

"This document is also fundamentally about Lancashire’s evidenced case-making to support more and better connectivity as a means to improve our access and economic influence over the Northern Powerhouse as a whole.

"Such interlinked factors are at the heart of the government’s vision for a more connected and more productive North, and it is one which Lancashire wholeheartedly embraces.”