Comments on: MMU’s rise in Green Table proves controversial in Hulme http://manchestermule.com/article/mmus-rise-in-green-table-proves-controversial-in-hulme News with a Kick Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Insider http://manchestermule.com/article/mmus-rise-in-green-table-proves-controversial-in-hulme/comment-page-1#comment-2662 Insider Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:19:52 +0000 http://manchestermule.com/?p=3902#comment-2662 The reality here is that MMU are seeking to build five blocks of student flats and a multi-store car park (funded by private investors). There will be no benefits for local residents. Plans for the campus are ever shrinking. Also, there is no sports hall; it was this feature which gained the highest approval? The reality here is that MMU are seeking to build five blocks of student flats and a multi-store car park (funded by private investors). There will be no benefits for local residents.

Plans for the campus are ever shrinking. Also, there is no sports hall; it was this feature which gained the highest approval?

]]> By: a.p freer http://manchestermule.com/article/mmus-rise-in-green-table-proves-controversial-in-hulme/comment-page-1#comment-2589 a.p freer Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:59:53 +0000 http://manchestermule.com/?p=3902#comment-2589 Colleagues may have read the recent announcement about withdrawal of NWDA funding from a number of projects including Birley Fields. It is the case that 8.5M GBP of funding has been ...withdrawn, but this does not de-rail the project or undermine the long-term benefits that a consolidation onto Birley Fields will achieve. The University is committed to the Birley Fields development and is in discussion with HEFCE and Manchester City Council to proceed with the project. I am convinced that the longer term academic, community and environmental benefits are so great that a way will be found to deliver the ambitious vision for the campus. The need for an integrated campus is even greater within a resource constrained future. Colleagues may have read the recent announcement about
withdrawal of NWDA funding from a number of projects including
Birley Fields. It is the case that 8.5M GBP of funding has been
…withdrawn, but this does not de-rail the project or undermine
the long-term benefits that a consolidation onto Birley Fields
will achieve. The University is committed to the Birley Fields
development and is in discussion with HEFCE and Manchester City
Council to proceed with the project. I am convinced that
the longer term academic, community and environmental benefits
are so great that a way will be found to deliver the ambitious
vision for the campus. The need for an integrated campus is
even greater within a resource constrained future.

]]> By: Patrick Sudlow http://manchestermule.com/article/mmus-rise-in-green-table-proves-controversial-in-hulme/comment-page-1#comment-2097 Patrick Sudlow Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:03:26 +0000 http://manchestermule.com/?p=3902#comment-2097 If our Institutions were to be compared to Western European institutions they would rank near the bottom. The MMU has made improvements but these are really nothing more than tokenism. As for their plans for Birley Fields at the so-called consultations they admitted their plans for a greener campus depended on funding. This was before they started making staff redundant and the emergency budget. We in Hulme have been promised all sorts to only get nothing. There are plenty of brownfield sites to build the campus as well as all the empty office blocks which could be utilised. If our Institutions were to be compared to Western European institutions they would rank near the bottom. The MMU has made improvements but these are really nothing more than tokenism. As for their plans for Birley Fields at the so-called consultations they admitted their plans for a greener campus depended on funding. This was before they started making staff redundant and the emergency budget. We in Hulme have been promised all sorts to only get nothing. There are plenty of brownfield sites to build the campus as well as all the empty office blocks which could be utilised.

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