Category Archives: Manchester City Council

Does housing financialisation deliver a Viable Economy for Greater Manchester?

Posted on 8 May, 2018 by

Does housing financialisation deliver a Viable Economy for Greater Manchester? By James Scott Vandeventer, Steady State Manchester originally published by Greater Manchester Housing Action, 6 May, 2018. Manchester’s skyline is changing. Fast. While the dominant narrative is that dozens of … Continue reading →

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How many homes do we need in Greater Manchester, and where?

Posted on 28 March, 2017 by

It has been argued that Greater Manchester has a choice. Either build on the green belt and have more high-rise in the city centre, or have insufficient new homes for an expanding population. Let’s examine this claim. View this as … Continue reading →

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What kind of a city and region do we want?

Posted on 23 February, 2017 by

Success as building frenzy: the Manchester model Someone once told me that for Sir Howard Bernstein, the retiring Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, his measure of success was the number of cranes visible on the city’s skyline. True or … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester Spatial Framework – our response.

Posted on 23 December, 2016 by

Click for the pdf version of our response The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework is a “master plan” for the use of land across Greater Manchester for the next 20 years.  Steady State Manchester responds to it here.  While there are … Continue reading →

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Manchester’s Housing Crisis

Posted on 23 November, 2015 by

      Most people know that the UK is in the midst of what has been dubbed the ‘housing crisis’. Indeed it is now part of mainstream political thinking that more house building is urgently required. Greater Manchester is … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester Pension Fund: some positive moves but more ambition needed.

Posted on 13 March, 2015 by

What kind of a job are the city region’s investments doing in securing a viable future for the region – economically, socially, and for our living planet? Back in September, 2013, we wrote to the then chair of Manchester City … Continue reading →

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Supermarkets, levies and the social franchise

Posted on 29 July, 2014 by

We have referred in recent posts to the idea of the social franchise.  This framework for local policy has been advocated and developed by colleagues at the CRESC research unit (Manchester and Open Universities).  The idea is simple: by operating … Continue reading →

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Can we end aviation dependency, and meanwhile how to spend the profits?

Posted on 16 July, 2014 by

  Last year Manchester City Council received what was described as a windfall of some £14m from its share of Manchester Airport Group. The other Greater Manchester councils have received a smaller, proportionate share. This year the figure is £16.23m … Continue reading →

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