Samlesbury Enterprise Zone & Innovation Hub

A site of international significance, Samlesbury Enterprise Zone can enable transformational economic growth for the whole of Lancashire.

Designed to support advanced manufacturing and engineering, hi-tech and research-led sectors, including cyber, robotics and future flight, the 120-acre site is primed to become a hub of world-class innovation, Industry 4.0 processes, and disruptive R&D.

The site sits strategically at the heart of Lancashire and will act as an anchor development for several other emerging economic opportunities. These include the Preston Station Quarter, Blackburn’s Cyber Skills and Education Campus and Innovation Quarter, and the wider M65 East Lancashire Corridor. The site is home to BAE Systems and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre North West (AMRC NW).

The location of the National Cyber Force provides opportunity to harness new corporates, SMEs and talent into the region. Funding to build the first phase of an Innovation Hub has been secured through devolution. This Hub will harness this potential by being the home to a series of programmes, funding initiatives and events to draw in new community members and establish Lancashire as the centre of cyber security technologies.