Inward Investment · Impact Report 2025–26
INVEST EAST YORKSHIRE
Inward Investment

Bringing investment & jobs to the East Riding

The Inward Investment Team gives investors a free, confidential package of support — finding sites and premises, unlocking infrastructure, sourcing funding, and connecting them to local skills. This year that work helped move major schemes from plans into the ground, with the potential for thousands of jobs to follow.

Taking care of business and supporting business growth in the East Riding of Yorkshire

In numbers · 2025/26

Inward investment, this year

A snapshot of the year across the inward-investment journey — from first enquiry, through planning, to spades in the ground.

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Investment enquiries
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Planning applications approved
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Works started on site (soil turned)
The bigger picture

A rare combination

The East Riding sits within Hull & East Yorkshire — a region offering investors a rare mix of scale, connectivity and affordability, backed by Freeport status, devolved powers and a delivery-focused Combined Authority.

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GVA a year · £57bn total output
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Inward investment over the decade · 8,800+ jobs
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Of UK trade moves through the Humber
17% of UK trade

Ports & Logistics

The UK's busiest trading gateway — more tonnage than any other UK port complex, with direct shipping to Rotterdam, Zeebrugge and Hamburg, and ABP at the heart of the cluster.

25% of UK energy

Clean Energy

The engine room of the energy transition — a third of UK offshore wind capacity and two-thirds of licensed CO₂ storage, anchored by Siemens Gamesa, Air Products and the Humber industrial cluster.

20%+ of GVA

Advanced Manufacturing

Manufacturing drives more than 20% of regional GVA — twice the UK average — home to Reckitt, Smith+Nephew, BAE Systems, Croda and Siemens Mobility's £200m rail base.

FTSE 250

Agri-food & Agri-tech

The East Riding's productive arable land underpins a cluster spanning primary production, food processing and agri-tech innovation — anchored by FTSE 250 producer Cranswick.

The wins

Major investment landing in the area

Some of the biggest investment now landing across the East Riding and the wider Humber — from major road infrastructure, to freeport development and a £600m clean-fuel facility.

£45mHowden

Howden Relief Road

The contract for the main highway and drainage works has been awarded to Aureos Rail Ltd through the YORcivil Major Works framework.

112-week construction programme
Humber Freeport Goole tax site
5,000 jobsFreeport Goole

Freeport Goole

Planning committee approved applications for Metsä Tissue, alongside outline consent for 500,000 sq ft of new industrial space at Freeport Goole — carrying the potential to create up to 5,000 jobs.

500,000 sq ft of new industrial space
5.5m sq ftHumber Freeport

Freeport 36

HBD secured outline planning for 5.5m sq ft of development on Freeport 36, a tax site within the Humber Freeport. With a judicial review anticipated but the notice period lapsing unchallenged in early January 2026, the scheme can now proceed — paving the way for up to 3,000 jobs as it is built out.

Up to 3,000 jobs
LanzaTech sustainable aviation fuel project, Saltend Chemicals Park
£600mSaltend Chemicals Park

LanzaTech

LanzaTech announced plans to build a £600m sustainable aviation fuel facility at Saltend Chemicals Park — a major clean-energy investment for the area and a significant vote of confidence in the region.

Sustainable aviation fuel
Case study

Elite Office Furniture, Goole

How a long-established Goole manufacturer is investing in long-term growth and skilled local jobs.

Watch

How Humber Freeport is driving growth

A short film on how the Humber Freeport is attracting investment and creating jobs across East Yorkshire.

On the international stage

MIPIM 2026

The Council promoted Hull & East Yorkshire as an investment location at MIPIM in Cannes — the world's largest property and investment market — exhibiting as part of Place North's North of England delegation and putting the region in front of international investors and developers.

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Sessions Cllr Handley spoke at
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Investor meetings at MIPIM
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Follow-up meetings to arrange
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New investor contacts made
On the national stage

UKREiiF

The Council takes the East Riding's investment story to UKREiiF — the UK's Real Estate Investment & Infrastructure Forum — the national event where investors, developers, councils and industry leaders meet to broker partnerships and regeneration deals.

The region exhibits under the joint Invest Hull & East Yorkshire banner, with a dedicated pavilion at the 2026 forum in Leeds (19–21 May). The stand puts the area's live investment sites, infrastructure projects and growth-sector strengths — the Humber Freeport, clean energy, ports and logistics, and advanced manufacturing — in front of a national and international audience.

The 2026 pavilion hosted eight panel sessions — among them the launch of the Hull & East Yorkshire Local Growth Plan at the Mayor's and Leader's Reception — while a targeted Invest East Yorkshire campaign around the event reached an audience of more than 250,000.

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Panel sessions hosted
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Attendees across the sessions
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Unique pavilion visitors
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From non-partner companies
The HEY Invest pavilion at UKREiiF HEY Invest brand wall and live investment map at the pavilion Delegates networking at the HEY Invest pavilion Guests in front of a development visualisation at the HEY Invest stand Networking at the HEY Invest pavilion Conversations at the HEY Invest pavilion, UKREiiF
Invest Hull & East Yorkshire

Explore the full investment proposition

Live sites, sector data and the regional offer across Hull & East Yorkshire — the joint banner the area takes to market.

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