South Yorkshire Investment Zone

Our advanced manufacturing know-how will be deployed to solve society’s biggest challenges – producing clean, green heat, power and flight; tackling ill-health; and harnessing technology. South Yorkshire’s know-how is about engineering practical solutions to big challenges.

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South Yorkshire Investment Zone and Doncaster:

The City of Doncaster and Communities in the region are set to benefit from thousands of new jobs and £1.2 billion of investment as part of the UK’s first Investment Zone.

Building on the heritage and strength of manufacturing in this area, the South Yorkshire Investment Zone will be focused on Advanced Manufacturing and includes the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. It is expected to help leverage more than £1.2bn of private funding, create new skill and investment opportunities and help support more than 8,000 jobs by 2030.

People from Doncaster, Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley will see barriers to growth in their area, including challenges attracting finance and investment, supporting business growth and clear pathways to higher skilled jobs reduced.

This could be through potential support for specialist training programmes tailored to industry and support for local businesses in the sector’s supply chains, helping drive more business activity and productivity.

Doncaster has four opportunity sites including the City Centre with key sites including Waterfront and City Gateway, Unity Yorkshire, GatewayEast and Doncaster North.

Doncaster has strong existing clusters across various sectors such as Rail including companies such as Hitachi Rail, Unipart Rail and Volker Rail, Advanced Materials and engineering, attracting exciting new establishment such as Hybrid Air Vehicles.

Multiple underdeveloped sites across Doncaster provide potential for acceleration of development through the Investment Zone opportunity.