Welcome to PACEC
PACEC is a well established, specialist economic consultancy practice, with offices in Cambridge and London.
PACEC carries out economic development and regeneration strategies, appraisal and feasibility studies, implementation and the evaluation of policies and initiatives to identify the benefits and any improvements required.
Our teams offer creative solutions to economic and regeneration challenges to meet client requirements. Key services cover business development, innovation and technology transfer, inward investment, labour markets and training, neighbourhood renewal and social inclusion and property issues.
PACEC's Local Economic Performance System (LEPS) provides economic intelligence, analysis of trends, and forecasts which support policy development, providing a powerful tool to enable clients to analyse the strengths and weakness of their local economies and formulate policy.
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Projects
Prosperous communities II: vive la dévolution!, published in February 2007, sets out the LGA's evidence base for the need for devolution of powers to local councils and some concrete proposals for making it happen. The economic analysis in the document, including detailed maps of economically self-sufficient local areas, was undertaken by PACEC. A summary, the full report, and the research report commissioned by PACEC are available here at the LGA website.
In view of the perceived economic and environmental importance of sporting shooting, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the Countryside Alliance (CA), and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), in consultation with the Game Conservancy Trust, joined together to provide an independent assessment of the economic and environmental contribution of shooting within the UK. A press release, the executive summary of the report and the full report itself can be downloaded from www.shootingfacts.co.uk.
In 2004, The University of Hertfordshire and Welwyn Hatfield District Council commissioned a far-reaching study into the full extent of the University of Hatfield's impact on the district of Welwyn Hatfield. In addition to exploring the amount of income injected into local business, the study also looked at the social and cultural impact.
For the DTI, PACEC is undertaking a study into the sector competitiveness of the design engineering sector. The overall aims are to analyse the key factors underpinning the relative productivity and competitiveness of the UK design engineering industry and to form a clearer view of the sector's future evolution, with comparisons of the sector in Europe and USA. The drivers of productivity performance and the growth prospects for the UK sector will also be explored.
The Welsh Assembly Government has appointed PACEC to carry out an evaluation of the WDA's property activity from 1995 to the present day.
Recruitment
We are currently recruiting. Please send CVs and inquiries to: The Office Manager, PACEC, 49-53 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1AB. Email: admin@pacec.co.uk
