Love them or hate them – and many in the sector are not in the fan club – local enterprise partnerships (LEP) have made a difference.
The idea behind them was to shake up the delivery of economic growth by taking centre stage and councils could have been forgiven for feeling these new organisations were muscling in on their domain.
There has been a lot of criticism – often valid – thrown at the new kids on the block in the last four years, with some in local government hoping they would be a political fad that would last as long as the current government.
