
Manchester reviews progress on climate change
The city council said its quest to halve its direct carbon emissions by 2025 is on track almost a year after it adopted an “ambitious” action plan, but the strategy faced challenges due to Covid-19.
The city council said its quest to halve its direct carbon emissions by 2025 is on track almost a year after it adopted an “ambitious” action plan, but the strategy faced challenges due to Covid-19.
The city council has approved the upgrade of the HSBC UK National Cycling Centre on Stuart Street, prolonging the lifespan of the 25-year-old arena and ensuring that international events continue to be staged in Manchester.
Mike Wilton, the leader of the engineering consultancy's Manchester office, has taken over from Creative Concern's Steve Connor, who has been holding the role on an interim basis.
The oldest building on the University of Manchester’s under construction engineering campus has been renovated and extended, to provide a heritage focus for the £400m scheme.
The city council is planning to scrap almost half of Manchester's 30,000 city centre parking spaces over the next 20 years and could redevelop some off-street car parks, after taking over control of 13 former NCP sites.
The property company has secured the backing of Transport for Greater Manchester in a city-wide initiative aimed at supporting safe returns to the workplace.
Hear from Ellandi, Savills, Kampus, CWAC and others as they debate the future of town centres at this special interactive Place North West event with networking, panels and presentations next week.
Manchester City Council’s planning committee voted unanimously to refuse plans to demolish three grade two-listed buildings that would have unlocked the Northern Quarter site for a residential scheme known as Warp & Weft.
The last sections of the 40m Tower of Light have been installed, as Manchester City Council and its partners close in on completion of the most visual part of its Civic Quarter Heat Network project.
The future of offices and a look at developments in Greater Manchester and Liverpool are among the topics under scrutiny at Place conferences in September.