Manchester to review 10-year city vision

The Build Back Better campaign presents an opportunity to challenge the status quo, writes Tom Jonson of LUC.

Manchester City Council, with the University of Manchester and affordable housing provider the Guinness Partnership, have created a community park aimed at helping to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Join Planit and Civic Engineers to debate the opportunity the pandemic presents for changing the way our neighbourhoods, towns and cities are configured and our streets and public realm designed.

Manchester City Council has lodged an application to knock down the freestanding part of Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s much-maligned concrete wall, after ringfencing £1.8m for the wider gardens revamp in March. 

The square at the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter is to be designated as a temporary pedestrian and cycle-only zone from Friday 3 July.

Manchester City Council has concluded a consultation to update plans for its Medieval Quarter, introducing a “Glade of Light” sculpture to serve as a permanent memorial to the 22 victims of the May 2017 terrorist attack.

The transport planning, placemaking and engineering consultancy has opened an office at 3 Piccadilly Place and appointed Chris Sibthorpe as its director. 

Friday will see the deadline for cities across the UK to submit their bids to the £250m Emergency Active Travel Fund, supporting ‘bold’ and ‘speedy’ action to create pop-up infrastructure for cycling and walking, writes Steve Connor, chief executive of Creative Concern. 

The Science & Industry Museum in Manchester has been granted permission to start repair work on the grade one-listed 1830 warehouse, the world's oldest surviving railway goods building.