Category Archives: Climate Change

Planning Inspectorate can’t say if its inspectors are carbon literate.

Posted on 6 June, 2023 by The Steady State Manchester team

We have had a (late) response from the Planning Inspectorate to our Freedom of Information request. We asked for information on whether planning inspectors have received carbon-literacy training. The response is disappointing: So, effectively, the Planning Inspectorate can’t assure us … Continue reading →

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UK Planning Inspectorate hasn’t responded to FOIA about carbon literacy yet

Posted on 24 May, 2023 by The Steady State Manchester team

By law, the Planning Inspectorate should normally have responded promptly and by 16 May 2023. Of course things can reasonably be delayed but I have not had the courtesy of a communication from them to that effect. MHB Dear Planning … Continue reading →

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Places for Everyone: the carbon impact. Revised figures.

Posted on 3 January, 2023 by The Steady State Manchester team

We have revised our previously published estimates of the carbon emissions that would occur as a consequence of implementing the Greater Manchester Combined Authority‘s (nine district) spatial plan, Places for Everyone. That plan is currently going through an extended series … Continue reading →

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Places for Everyone, week 3 – Carbon emissions

Posted on 2 December, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

pdf version On Tuesday, 29 November, the Planning Inspectorate’s examination of Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Places for Everyone (P4E) plan turned to its policies for sustainability. Our particular interest has been about the plan’s proposals for reducing carbon emissions. There … Continue reading →

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Places for Everyone, week 2 – Green Belt and Airport

Posted on 28 November, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

The Planning Inspectorate continues its Examination in Public of Greater Manchester’s nine district Places for Everyone joint spatial plan (known as P4E). We previously reported on week 1. Last week they discussed matters concerning the brownfields first policy, the justification … Continue reading →

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Trimtab* tactics to move civil society on climate

Posted on 31 October, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

*A ship’s trimtab is a small narrow rudder on the trailing edge of the much large rudder. To start turning a huge ship, the trimtab is deflected, which initiates the process of turning the ship by making the larger rudder … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester’s Places for Everyone Plan: the Carbon Impact

Posted on 16 July, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

Please note – we have now (January, 2023) updated the calculations – the new version and an introductory blog post is at this link. _____________________________________________________________ Download the report, latest version (pdf, 0.6 MB) Download the previous version (pdf, 0.6 MB) … Continue reading →

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Manchester’s Electronic Billboards – Another Sidewalk for Jevons’ Paradox

Posted on 13 May, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

pdf version Manchester’s Electronic Billboards – Another Sidewalk for Jevons’ Paradox By Richard A Shirres & James Scott Vandeventer In perambulating Manchester’s city centre, now the latest chore is in side-stepping yet more clutter within your pedestrian domain: dozens of … Continue reading →

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