Stuart Klosinski, Principal Consultant, your lead contact is a vastly experienced chartered town planner and economic development specialist 

Klosinski Economic Development Ltd delivers bespoke business support to a diverse client base using probably unrivalled expertise facilitating growth of firms in the business and industrial base of south west Cumbria, it connects businesses with a wide ranging network of contacts within companies, developers, landowners, public sector bodies, trade unions, community and political leaders. It also provides a Secretariat to a national Keep Our Future Afloat organization which champions the UK naval shipbuilding industry’s contribution to national defence and prosperity

It specializes in facilitating services for companies to strengthen their involvement in:

– SUPPLY CHAINS

– MAJOR PROJECTS EMERGING IN SW CUMBRIA, UK

– DEFENCE AND NAVAL SHIPBUILDING

– MANUFACTURING AND ENERGY BUSINESS TOURISM

it also helps companies to identify or deliver:

– SITES AND PREMISES OPTIONS FOR GROWTH INVESTMENTS

– MASTERPLANNING FOR SITE REPURPOSING

– SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFIT PROGRAMMES

– Reseach, Analysis, Strategic studies

– Project Evaluations

and

– Planning consultancy

Our Secretariat service enables us to engage with ministers, MPs, Lords, civil servants, local and regional politicians and industry leaders with the aim of raising awareness of the strategic defence, security, skills and prosperity benefits of investing in naval shipbuilding and the submarine industrial base.

A presence on the board of Furness Education and Skills Partnership and Global Underwater Hub’s Northern Advisory Board also adds value enabling firms to connect with schools and underwater technology organizations. The business also works with Unite the union local branches to help further local workforce, skills and regeneration objectives.

Clients include multi-national, manufacturing, small and medium sized businesses, developers, national, regional and local, public and private sector organizations as well as Dalton Community Action Group.

The business is one of the leading economic development specialists operating within the Furness Peninsula and Cumbri with a 40+ year track record of delivering professional planning services and assisting business growth in manufacturing, energy, defence and other sectors.

We find that what businesses value most is

• access to locally based on the ground market intelligence about major and local projects,
• when they are likely to occur,
• who is involved, the companies and key contacts within them
• how to position to bid for work emerging in contract packages and
• how to pre-qualify early enough so as to be involved in the supply arrangements whether during a projects construction or when it is operational.
• bespoke events that bring together suppliers

Our approach to this involves

• developing bespoke overviews of upcoming and current investment projects that firms can build into their business planning
• quantifying availability of labour pool skills, accommodation, available business sites and premises
• innovation support
• sector briefings
• and much more

Some of our recent commissions have involved delivery of

• a multi-faceted housing and business sites supply, demand  strategy package for a defence manufacturer
• develop masterplans for repurposing land
• helping manufacturers to secure planning approval for major expansions
• developing options for socio-economic benefits plans
• master-planning, advising developers on realizing potential of their land,
• facilitating appraisals of candidate sites for inclusion in a forthcoming local plan for a client
• supporting several manufacturers seeking to grow their production capacity.
• developing a 5-year marketing plan to raise awareness of the submarine industrial base and naval shipbuilding.
• town parking survey, conservation area and street works appraisals

The business aims to be your first choice when you need help to expand your business . Its strengths are;

• its local base, its extensive networks, of business, supply chain, industrial community, public sector, trade union and political contacts;
• deep knowledge of businesses operating in the Westmorland and Furness, the North and Northwest of England areas and
• key sectors of the economy especially manufacturing, defence, life sciences, energy;
• identification of where opportunities may emerge, what is happening, when, who to get in touch with, which suppliers are potentially available.
• project evaluation and strategy expertise.

We make it our business to enable your business to understand more about companies, sectors, sites and business growth potential. 

For organisations involved in developing international collaboration we have extensive experience of supporting strategic ventures, briefings in support of the emerging Anglo Australian and American AUKUS defence initiative and are keen to assist companies optimise their involvement in its pillar one submarine delivery programme.

We also help devise regional and national campaigns supplemented by robust research to enable policy to be influenced or national awareness raising campaigns to be managed.

We have designed bids and managed delivery of programme involving multi-year business support and marketing programme sourcing resources through ERDF, Levelling – Up, Coastal Communities, Growth Deal, Working Neighbourhoods, Single Regeneration Budget and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Socio-Economic Funds as well as securing resources from regional and local trade unions to achieve required outcomes and outputs. These have focused on:

• attracting new companies into an area,
• support new business formation,
• help existing firms to identify and access new markets and supplier contracts;
• facilitating new product and process development by small and medium sized companies;
• delivery of apprenticeship subsidies, skills bursaries, development of digital skills and demonstrating wider socio-economic impact
• new business park developments and housing land assembly.

Waterfront Business Park and the port: We enabled Barrow Council to bid for,get an ERDF 60% grant towards a £3.5m managed business centre deliver the scheme and a post construction evaluation of its impact to satisfy ERDF requirements.

Robust research to deliver detailed data analysis and findings can help underpin your targeted engagement with businesses, local authorities, local enterprise companies’ ‘work-forces and other stakeholders.

We have also been involved in shaping and delivery of new opportunities. Through coordinated multi-agency responses to economic shocks, These have included:

• an extensive overview of current and prospective housing and accommodation availability and potential of business sites to accommodate a substantial expansion of workforce for an industrial client;
• East Ulverston, coordinating technical development for a local authority client involved in preparing a Masterplan and delivery route-map for a 42-hectare strategic site
• Dalton facilitating a business case for expansion of a growing manufacturing company seeking to acquire land from a local authority
• Development and implementation of a GSK Enterprise Fund, Regeneration Green Paper framework for site investment re-use and skills actions;
• Barrow Waterfront Business Park – new strategic site and core buildings after ERDF aided transformation of derelict port landholdings;
• ABP Port of Barrow attraction of offshore wind-farm operations and maintenance hubs;
• responding to shipyard redundancies in the 1990s and 2000s’ –  leading a development agency response;
• redevelopments of a former steelworks to create the Furness Business Park and a cellophane site into Sandscale Business Park;
• the Ulverston, Low Mill Business Park realizing its potential as a subsea centre of excellence and redevelopment of nearby land as MARL Business Park
• engagement with Homes England on new housing proposals for Salthouse Sands and Marina Village, Barrow.

INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT: STUART KLOSINSKI

Stuart Klosinski the company’s principal consultant is chartered town planner (M.R.T.P.I.) achieving one of the fastest ever completions of the Institute’s professional examinations in 1979 leading to chartered status.

 

the business has since  2015  lead consultant managing Furness Economic Development Forum’s delivery of its ‘Supply Chain and Transforming Skills Programme 2015-2019′  and design and implementation of FEDF Delivery Plans for 2014 to 2017 and 2018- to 2022 within a multi-organisational team drawn from BAESYSTEMS, Furness College, Barrow Borough and South Lakeland District Councils. This involved coordinated delivery of skills, infrastructure, business support supply chain, quality of life improvement priorities across Furness and external engagement with Government departments, industry, local authority, LEP and social enterprise stakeholders.

Between 1991 and 2015 he was Industrial Development Manager in Furness Enterprise Development Agency  leading delivery of direct support to companies of all sizes, managing successful bids for UK government and ERDF funded programmes, coordinating attraction of inward investment, responses to economic shocks and delivery of novel forms of innovation support. He also led promotion of the area’s marketing activities.

Four years managing Barrow Council’s industrial development and estates activity preceded that role. Earlier roles in Lancashire County Council, Barrow Borough Council and Fife Region Council provided a foundation in development management,  economic development including attraction of the onshore gas processing facilities to Rampside near Barrow and environmental impact assessment of large scale industrial projects including the original Devonshire Dock Hall shipyard modernisation investment.

GET IN TOUCH, CALL: 07836254721 or email stuart@klosinski.co.uk to discuss how we can help your business or organization. Our fees are cost effective. They can be negotiated on a per day, individual project, or a retained fee basis over an agreed period.