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Category Archives: Manchester City Council
How many homes do we need in Greater Manchester, and where?
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
What kind of a city and region do we want?
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
Greater Manchester Spatial Framework – our response.
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
Manchester’s Housing Crisis
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.
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
Supermarkets, levies and the social franchise
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
Can we end aviation dependency, and meanwhile how to spend the profits?
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
Manchester’s new housing deal: more questions than answers.
Manchester City has signed a new housing deal with Manchester City! Yes, that’s what we said, where “Manchester City” of course means Manchester City Council and strangely enough (in Manc. English) “Manchester City” also means Manchester City Football Club. Even … Continue reading
