Multi Area Agreement

A multi-area agreement (MAA) is designed to be cross-boundary local area agreement (LAA). They bring together key players in flexible ways to tackle issues that are best addressed in partnership – at a regional and sub-regional level.

The major issues that MAAs can tackle include:

• skills deficits
• housing market imbalances                       
• transport and infrastructure projects
• economic development.

MAAs complement and do not duplicate the work of existing LAAs, the new performance framework or existing regional strategies. The wider spatial level can include partners across towns, cities or sub-regions.

MAAs are similar to LAAs in that strategic partners across boundaries can agree targets and pooling of funding arrangements with their government office (GO). There is a particular attraction to aligning rather than pooling funding at MAA level to ensure control of spending.

Our MAA is one of the first 7 in the country and has an economic, cross boundary focus with the environment at its heart. It is business led and designed to improve the economic performance of the area.

                                                                  Our MAA has 5 themes:

•                        Environment
•                  Transport
•                  Skills
•                  Affordable Housing
•                  Employment Land