Tag Archives: DevoManc

Doing Buses Differently. Our response to the consultation.

Posted on 2 January, 2020 by

Here is our response to the Mayor and Transport for Greater Manchester proposals for bus system reform. We strongly support these proposals as the best option available now for securing the urgent and massive shift away from private motorised transport … Continue reading →

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Accountability for the Mayor of Greater Manchester: Participatory Governance?

Posted on 1 August, 2018 by

Accountability for the Mayor of Greater Manchester: Participatory Governance in the 21st Century by James Scott Vandeventer It has been over a year since Greater Manchester elected its first Mayor. Since then, Mayor Andy Burnham has worked to build the … Continue reading →

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Designing a viable Greater Manchester?

Posted on 30 April, 2017 by

Is now the time to grasp opportunities and make the best of them? The highly successful film  Demain  which a packed audience saw in Manchester on  Wednesday night  suggests just that. The showing was organised by the Kindling Trust and … Continue reading →

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Policies for the City Region: our full report, out now.

Posted on 2 March, 2017 by

Today we publish our full report: Policies for the City Region. The timing couldn’t be better as now is the run up to the first election of a Greater Manchester mayor.  In it we explore and promote policies and practices … Continue reading →

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STEADYSTATE Part Two: The Local and Regional Context

Posted on 18 October, 2016 by

This is the second part of our interview piece  in Manchester’s Now Then magazine. Click HERE to read the interview.  Thanks to Ian Pennington at Now Then for inviting us and publishing our thoughts.  The first part, on the wider … Continue reading →

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Steady State Manchester and the People’s Plan for Greater Manchester

Posted on 3 July, 2016 by

A meeting of SSM members was held on June 27th to consider the proposed process of developing the People’s Plan for Greater Manchester. David Fernández Arias gave an introduction to the rationale and purpose of the People’s Plan. In the … Continue reading →

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Open Letter endorsements

The Open Letter to Tony Lloyd has been endorsed by the following people to date (in addition to the many people who have verbally expressed their appreciation for it).  Thank you, everyone.  We will be adding a selection of people’s … Continue reading →

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The Open Veins of Greater Manchester

Posted on 2 June, 2015 by

In Greater Manchester and the North (which we now have to call the Northern Powerhouse) new investment is coming. New transport minister, Patrick McLoughlin, has confirmed that HS2 (the Y shaped high speed railway with its foot in London and … Continue reading →

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