Manchester City Council is delivering just 13 per cent of affordable housing required in the area, according to homeless charity Shelter’s new ‘Housing League Table’ website.
Moves to create an authority to oversee all of Greater Manchester have been criticised as undemocratic. The Manchester City Region Combined Authority will take powers away from elected local councils and put them in the hands of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities Executive Board.
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is planning a new development on green space in Hulme. They label the construction the “greenest campus in the UK” and say plans will balance the needs of the local community, but Hulme residents have their doubts.
Parliament has been under attack lately (not literally, unfortunately) for its lack of ‘transparency’. It took a plucky mole to steal the documents, and public spiritedly flog them for £300,000 to the Telegraph to find out how much of our money was being spent on crystal grapefruit bowls and £200 pens (stand up Gorton MP [...]
The building site that is Manchester City’s former stadium is silent and inactive. Five years after the demolition of the Maine Road stadium in Moss Side, the hoardings are still up. The Council awarded a contract in 2004 to Lowry Homes to build 477 new homes in Moss Side and Rusholme as part of a [...]
A walk through East Manchester is never dull. At each turn, layers of history mingle: huge mills and canals from the industrial revolution, 1930s red-brick terraces, tower blocks from the great post-war social housing projects. The area entered a lengthy economic decline in the 1980s as Britain de-industrialised. During the past decade, a huge regeneration [...]
