About Us: Introduction 

The Leeds City Region is the real economy for 11 local authorities across North, South and West Yorkshire. It is the area across which people travel to work, spend their leisure time, go to school, and live

The Leeds City Region Partnership brings together the eleven local authorities of Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Harrogate, Kirklees, Leeds, Selby, Wakefield and York, along with North Yorkshire County Council to work toward the common aim of a prosperous and sustainable city region by working together in areas such as transport, skills, housing, spatial planning and innovation.

We work as a city region because the day-to-day lives of people do not start and stop at local authority boundaries. The LCR Partnership is about working with the public and private sectors across the boundaries in which people choose to live, work and spend their leisure time.

We aim:

• To develop an internationally recognised city region;
• To raise our economic performance;
• To spread prosperity across the whole of our city region; and
• To promote a better quality of life for all of those who live and work here.

With close to 3m people, a resident workforce of 1.5m, 106,000 businesses and an economy worth £53bn per year, the Leeds City Region has a large and growing economy. By working together, the partner authorities of the LCR aim to achieve a “sum greater than the individual parts”— an extra £7bn boost in Gross Value Added to the city region economy over the ten years from 2006 to 2016.

The LCR Partnership has been working togethr for seven years and has an accountable decision making structure in operation through the Leeds City Region Leaders Board.

Recently, the Leeds City Region established its business-led board (LEP Board), to work alongside the Leaders Board in order to effectively address the city region's economic challenges. More information on the LEP Board