To work with partners to facilitate the delivery of an inclusive economy for the Haven Gateway area’s residents, workers and businesses by capitalising on its location as a key international gateway and realising its potential for significant growth through an additional focus on innovative sectors, knowledge-based employment and the provision of appropriate housing and infrastructure and skills.

The key components of this vision include:

• Advocacy on behalf of the economic geography of the Haven Gateway Partnership area and securing appropriate infrastructure to facilitate sustainable growth.
• A focus on the key sectors of the Haven Gateway Partnership area and facilitating business support programmes where appropriate, particularly innovation-based support for those sectors to grow sustainably
• Assisting partners to manage high levels of housing growth in the most sustainable way possible including encouraging infrastructure improvements in their widest sense and job creation
• Encouraging knowledge-based employment linked to Adastral Park, the University of Essex and the University of Suffolk