A multi-area agreement (MAA) was an English political framework that aimed to encourage cross boundary partnership working at the regional and sub-regional levels. They were defined by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) as voluntary agreements between two or more top tier (county councils or metropolitan district councils) or unitary local authorities, their partners and the government to work collectively to improve local economic prosperity.
There were 15 signed off multi-area agreements in England: However, these were folded into the new Local Enterprise Partnerships created by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government and were finally repealed under the Deregulation Act 2015.
MAA nameLocal authorities Established Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset: Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset, Weymouth, Portland Greater Manchester Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan Leeds City Region Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield, York, North Yorkshire: Selby, Craven, Harrogate Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH) Portsmouth, Southampton, Hampshire: East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, New Forest, Test Valley, Winchester South Yorkshire Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley Tees Valley Darlington, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees Tyne and Wear Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Durham, Northumberland Leicester and Leicestershire Leicester, Leicestershire: Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby and Wigston Liverpool City Region Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral Pennine Lancashire Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire: Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Rossendale Birmingham, Coventry and Black Country City Region Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton North Kent Medway, Kent: Gravesham, Swale, Dartford West of England Partnership Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire Fylde Coast Blackpool, Lancashire: Fylde, Wyre Olympic Boroughs Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest
Additionally there were five areas who were in negotiations with DCLG regarding the development of an MAA: Gatwick Diamond Hull and Humber Milton Keynes South Midlands Nottingham Regional Cities East
References
External links Map of MMA areas in England