About Us
Blackpool and the Fylde Coast offers ambitious businesses every opportunity to grow and succeed.
Come visit, and you’ll find a skilled workforce, hungry to prove their expertise. You’ll discover an area full of breathtaking development programmes, regeneration plans, Enterprise Zones at Blackpool Airport and Hillhouse, new site solutions and world-class industry clusters. And you’ll find all the support, advice and assistance you need.
13,300
Advanced manufacturing workers
17,700
Science, research, engineering and technology professionals
8%
Labour cost savings vs. UK average
Blackpool provides businesses with fast connectivity to the UK’s major cities, industrial centres and airports from a north-south central location
By Road
Blackpool provides businesses with fast road connectivity to UK markets. Manchester is accessible in less than an hour by car, while all of the UK’s major cities and industrial centres are accessible within four-and-a-half hours’ HGV drive time (London only). This ‘one HGV driver shift’ catchment extends from Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland to Bristol and London in southern England.
By Air
Blackpool is well connected for international air travel and freight. Blackpool Airport has access from Cat 3 up to Cat 6 capabilities. Manchester Airport, the UK’s largest airport outside London, is accessible in less than an hour by car. The airport serves more than 200 passenger and 160 freight destinations. London Heathrow, the UK’s passenger and freight hub airport, is accessible in less than four hours by car, and less than four-and-a-half hours by HGV.
