Local Enterprise Partnerships must rise to the challenge and help deliver better transport

Jonathan Spruce - Fore Consulting

20 April 2011

Jonathan Spruce is the founder of Fore Consulting, an independent consultancy offering a range of specialist transport, infrastructure, development, regeneration and project management services.

A recent viewpoint (LTT 567) asked the question as to whether Local Enterprise Partnerships could rise to the challenge and help deliver better transport infrastructure. Surely a more important point is that LEPs must rise to the challenge? The transport select committee report highlighted what was thought to be a lack of clarity around the role of LEPs and transport and a need to address this quickly, but the Government has maintained that LEPs are expected to play a key role in bringing...