A Investment Zones – interested areas A.1 Investment Zones will only be chosen following a rapid expression of interest process open to everyone and after local consent is confirmed. Examples of illustrative sites that may have the potential to accelerate growth and deliver housing in the way the Investment Zone programme envisages include: 1. Blackpool Airport 2. Blackpool Town Centre 3. Langarth Garden Village, Cornwall 4. Newquay Airport, Cornwall 5. Falmouth Docks, Cornwall 6. Ellesmere Port Industrial Area, Cheshire West & Chester 7. HS2 Interchange, Solihull 8. the site of a proposed battery Gigafactory at Coventry Airport 9. sites in the Black Country 10. sites in Barrow-in-Furness 11. Workington and the Energy Coast, Cumbria 12. sites near Weymouth, Dorset 13. the proposed Mayoral Development Corporation site in Hartlepool 14. the proposed Mayoral Development Corporation site in Middlesbrough 15. Teesside International Airport 16. Ebbsfleet Central 17. the River Hull corridor 18. Charnwood Campus in Leicestershire 19. Plymouth City Centre and Waterfront 20. Ceramic Valley in Stoke-on-Trent 21. Gravity, Somerset 22. Riverside, Sunderland 23. the Northern Spire, Sunderland 24. the International Advanced Manufacturing Park, Sunderland A.2 The government is in early discussions with the following 38 Authorities on establishing an Investment Zone in their area: 1. Blackpool Council 2. Bedford Borough Council The Growth Plan 2022 33