By collaborating with local partners and world-leading businesses, we will create tens of thousands of jobs in the area, boosting skills, increasing opportunities for local people, and investing in the region’s public services and amenities.
As we work together to regenerate the East Midlands, we will actively listen to, engage with, and learn from community members. This approach will ensure that we meet their needs and shape our landscapes together.
It’s the place where Sir Richard Arkwright harnessed the sustainable power of nature to set up the world’s first water-driven cotton mill, in Derbyshire in 1771 – an engine of industrial and economic growth that helped the UK lead the world.
It’s also the place where coal mines powered the nation, Rolls-Royce developed the jet engine, Sir Peter Mansfield invented the MRI scanner, and engineers in Derby built class-leading trains that kept the country on the move.
Surrounded by the natural beauty of the Peak District and Charnwood and Sherwood forests, it’s an inventive region whose tradition of engineering innovation and scientific discovery has led to major concentrations of industry critical to the UK’s economic future.
Those industries lie at the heart of East Midlands Freeport’s ambitions: to unlock opportunity for people and places by enabling a new era of innovative green growth.
