Enterprise Zones

Question 1

Details and named example

Answer 1

Small areas of land which offered special incentives to try and attract new businesses, particularly high tech ones
Firms were offered reduced prices

Wirral Waters

Question 2

Reason

Answer 2

Created in areas which suffered de-industrialisation or collapse of main industries

Question 3

Successes

Answer 3

Urban areas benefitted from new and diversified jobs
Lower business rates for first few years
Reduced planning ‘red tape’
Infrastructure incentives

Question 4

Limitations

Answer 4

Few succeeded in creating jobs and those created tended to be old or existing
Businesses simply relocated elsewhere causing decline in that area