Vision for Chester

What this could mean for Chester

! Chester defines itself with clear purpose and meaning, which aligns with a vision of growth and change within the city, driven by the local community in collaboration with the city borough council supporting the One City Plan. Chester has an active and engaged network for the city with a strong deal flow drawing on the high network of individuals in the city and surrounding areas to create change.

Inward investment is actively promoted for the city centre by leveraging the talent and capability of young people within the relevant sectors of the next ten years. These are digital, creative, net zero and agri-tech of the local area, clearly defining its ambition and vision for the future.

Chester aligns with relevant city partners and estate planning to codify the creative element of the university campus and look to create a shared hub within the city centre.

A pre-accelerator model is created to call for business growth around digital and creative technology. The plan of ambition is widely communicated to activate incubation and accelerator opportunities within sectors. Chester embraces e-commerce, allowing it to meaningfully build on its heritage as a retail jewel, acting as a call to action and activating local entrepreneurs to showcase their businesses physically whilst looking to attract digital native brands to the city centre (DNB) and into real-life, bringing vibrancy to the high street.

Chester formerly launches an intent to create workspace and acceleration space provision for relevant business growth within the city, creating a city of possibility.

A marketing message is created with relevant partners who are fully engaged, allowing it to state support for early-stage businesses within the digital and creative sectors. Defining a strategy to create a high-quality workspace within the city and leveraging its position as a recognised hybrid working city.

! Funding structures are built around start-up and early-stage businesses, with the council enabling to help facilitate shared investment into companies from the area to help create an evergreen fund with critical partners to deliver long-term economic development goals.

City borough council looks to help enable a sustainable accelerator approach with critical local partners in creative/renewable energy/ Food and Agri tech over four years. Delivering a variable sector focus yearly as an accelerator and starting with digital business activation.