CP1178-15 Business Support Framework

Local authorities across the Heart of the South West LEP area are committed to supporting businessesto prosper and grow. We recognise that good quality advice and support is one of the key ways to do this,encouraging people to start up, grow and be innovative in their business thinking. There are a wide variety of economic strategy documents relating to the geographies that make up the HOTSWarea, at district, county and unitary authority level. The LEP itself has distilled much of this information, toinform the development of its Strategic Economic Plan (SEP), which analyses the strengths, weaknesses andopportunities in the local economy and where further support may be required. All local…