Category Archives: Manchester City Council

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#Manchester City Council scrutiny committee agendas June 2014

Posted on June 5, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has 96 councillors. The Labour Party has – via first past the post elections – 95 of those seats. There’s a 9 member “Executive” that makes the decisions. The other councillors are supposed to keep tabs on … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to the new Councillors of #Manchester City Council

Posted on June 2, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Dear new Councillors, congratulations on becoming the latest councillors to represent and serve the people of Manchester. You become councillors at a moment of great danger for the city. I don’t mean the risk of further austerity after the next … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to Kevin Peel about #Manchester City Council and how to scrutinise it @kevpeel

Posted on May 15, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Dear Kevin, it’s unfortunate that you ignored the content of the 7 proposed ways Manchester City Council could improve its democratic scrutiny, and instead focussed on presentation issues(1). I have no way of knowing if you did this as a … Continue reading →

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7 things #Manchester City Council will not do to improve scrutiny of its Executive and officers

Posted on May 12, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has 96 councillors. At the moment Labour has 86 councillors out of that number. After the May 22nd elections, it will be 95 and a half. One Party State, much? So, the “scrutiny” process – whereby councillors … Continue reading →

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Progress Report: Number of “carbon literate” #Manchester councillors surges from 6 to… 6

Posted on May 7, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Back in January an “Open Letter” was signed and sent to Manchester City Council, calling for 9 specific climate actions to happen. One was to get all 96 Councillors on Manchester City Council to become “Carbon Literate”.  Four years after … Continue reading →

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#Manchester #climate boss Kate Chappell on cycling, the coming Great Car Debate and much else

Posted on April 9, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Councillor Kate Chappell is the Manchester City Council’s Executive Member for the Environment.” Here’s an interview, conducted Tuesday 8th April,  that touches upon “highway bores” (a good thing), potholes (a bad thing), the coming debate on the role of the … Continue reading →

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iGas get permission to #frack in Albert Square, central #Manchester

Posted on April 1, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

UPDATE: This.  And please read all the way to the bottom, including the comments. Controversial fossil fuel company iGas, currently packing up its exploratory well at Barton Moss, has been given the go-ahead to look for shale gas in the … Continue reading →

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For #climate action #Manchester needs more ‘tories

Posted on March 25, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Signatories. On the Climate Change Action Plan. MCFly editor Marc Hudson* recounts a sorry tale of missed targets, responsibility-shifting and “is it worth it”-ness. And asks the non-rhetorical question – is there any point whatsoever to the Stakeholder Steering Group? … Continue reading →

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Reply to Kate Chappell, #Manchester lead councillor on #climate and environment

Posted on March 18, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

The story so far: in late January a bunch of citizens signed an open letter to Manchester City Council calling on it to take 9 specific actions on climate change.  After a slightly disappointing start, the Executive Member for the … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Council Exec Member for the Environment Kate Chappell interviewed on #climate #drains etc

Posted on March 17, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Councillor Kate Chappell interviewed on the subject of drains and much else  (thanks to climate change we can expect episodes of lots-of-rain-in-a-very-short-period).

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