
Regional Growth Programme
Regional Growth Programme
IPPR North’s Regional Growth Programme is a multi-year programme of insight, ideas, and advocacy, as part of our work to reduce regional inequality and for people in all regions to live good lives and thrive.
Our mission is to build prosperous, resilient, and sustainable regional economies, offering good lives, high living standards, and access to fulfilling opportunity, all converging over time.
Our programme will shift the UK’s economic narrative to one that emphasises that where growth happens matters, for living standards, growth, and stability. We will produce bold ideas for good regional growth, and build and sustain political support for them.
We plan to develop a new economic narrative, undertake deep public insight to deliver on the public’s priorities for regional growth and living standards, and produce the big-bet ideas across key drivers of growth like transport, innovation, skills, housing, and placemaking. We will use IPPR North’s communication and advocacy expertise to help make the change we seek a reality.
Latest

On track to prosperity: Great Northern Rail
It’s time the North saw real change for better transport, delivering prosperity and better lives: a long-term plan for Great Northern Rail
Britons back local leaders with fiscal firepower
“Death and taxes,” they say, are life’s only certainties. But there’s a third - wherever taxes are controlled, power lies.
Simply about supply? How housing issues vary by region
Why we need a place-informed approach to deliver new homes across the country.
Regional economies: The role of industrial strategy as a pathway to greener growth
Regions like the North should have a key role to play in the development of a green industrial strategy.



