The latest draft of proposals for a Local Enterprise Partnership to replace business support previously available from the South West Regional Development Agency and Business Link are now available at devon.gov.uk/heartofswlep.htm.

The proposed LEP has been named the Heart of South West Local Enterprise Partnership.

North Devon businesses may be interested to know that the proposals have been drawn up by 15 'business leaders', none of whom specifically represent North Devon.

It is important that North Devon businesses feed back their comments and opinions on this draft by 25 February 2011.