Urban regenaration

Regional development agencies say London is an unfair benchmark for success

Sarah Ryle
Sunday July 7, 2002
The Observer

This weekend, the self-styled prime minister of Yorkshire, Graham Hall, returns from a trade mission to China with a coterie of businessmen. Their aim was to build links that will help to boost regional development.

A member of the Bank of England's Court - its advisory council - and spokesman for the nine regional development agencies at Westminster, Hall is Yorkshire Forward's chairman.

Of all the RDAs, Yorkshire Forward seems to attract the most criticism - albeit largely off the record. Some of this attacks the investment-cluster strategy pioneered by Hall's team. The cluster approach focuses on a handful of key sectors but there are fears that every region is chasing the same few lucrative industries...

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