Category Archives: Manchester City Council

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#Manchester City Council adds sustainability to Leisure Centre contracts #climate

Posted on March 12, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has included sustainability as a factor in the awarding of contracts to run its leisure centres. As part of the evaluation criteria, sustainability will be given a 10% weighting (with price at 50% and quality at 40%). … Continue reading →

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#Manchester #climate “Steering” “Group” “networking” “event” – video, inc Kate Chappell

Posted on March 11, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Last Wednesday the (please insert your own quote marks around all of the following capitalised words) Steering Group for the Climate Action Plan held a Networking Event called Work in Progress.  MCFly was there (having not, this time, been disinvited) … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Central Library lights on in middle of day. #Climate ? #Energy Bills??

Posted on March 10, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

I am writing to my councillors (you can find out who yours are here) and to Councillor Rosa Battle (Exec Member for Culture and Leisure – cllr.r.battle@manchester.gov.uk) and Councillor Kate Chappell (Exec member for Environment – cllr.k.chappell@manchester.gov.uk ). I hope … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Council #climate boss replies to Open Letter from citizens

Posted on March 5, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Councillor Kate Chappell, the Executive Member for the Environment of Manchester City Council, has written a detailed and encouraging reply to citizens who want to see more climate action in Manchester.  In the letter (printed in full below) she commits … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Council Environment Executive Kate Chappell on #shale gas and #fracking -interviewed

Posted on March 4, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

But not by MCFly*. The folks at “Shale World” seem a little confused about two things. Firstly, the Councillor’s gender and secondly, the fact that the May conference of the shale gas industry has been shifted to Birmingham, (for reasons … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Green Infrastructure Plan (progress report) to be scrutinised, Tues 4th March

Posted on March 3, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

On Tuesday 4th March Manchester City Council’s bureaucracy will do something that is both note-worthy and praise-worthy. It will … present a “work in progress” document for inspection by elected members of the Council. The Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy … Continue reading →

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All over #Manchester the lights are going out. Sort of.

Posted on March 1, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Here’s the latest film. (There have been several others on this theme, and doubtless will be several more…)

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#Manchester City Council Scrutiny Week March 2014

Posted on February 28, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Because they are unable/unwilling to do this themselves, here are the agendas (and links to reports) for the existing 6 scrutiny committees, scraped from the award-winning website.  The scrutiny commitees all meet in the so-called “Scrutiny Room” on the second … Continue reading →

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#Climate story in #Manchester Evening News, and meeting tonight, Tues 25th Feb

Posted on February 25, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester Evening News reporter Jennifer Williams has written an interesting account of the Executive meeting last week at which the latest “Climate Plan” of the City Council was discussed. [See MCFly’s account here.] The crucial thing is this – do … Continue reading →

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#Manchester has 32 wards. All should have ward plans. Only 9 do. People gonna have to do it for themselves…

Posted on February 24, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

The story so far: Manchester citizens recently offered to help their (cough cough) Council achieve nine specific actions on climate change. One of those was; 7) Ensure that the ward plans of all 32 wards (and Strategic Regeneration Frameworks) include … Continue reading →

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