Abstract
The challenges and opportunities of local and regional development center around the
desires of individual areas to enhance prosperity, improve well-being, and increase living standards
through a locality. Regions around the world where growth is taking place, can become prejudiced
by individual stakeholder influence misalignment as businesses, local authorities, public bodies, and
central government sometimes unintentionally, negatively impact the ‘common-good’. The Humber
estuaries burgeoning renewables sector is presented here as a case study example; specifically, the
on-going non-fulfilment of the objective to bring inward investment of 1st and 2nd tier offshore wind
supply chain businesses, including Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and Original Equipment
Manufacturers (OEM) to the area.