On Thursday 13th February, a dozen or so of us gathered at the wonderful Sandbar, 120 Grosvenor St, for pizza,…
Climate Emergency Manchester (1) today releases a new report explaining the ins and outs of Manchester City Council, and its…
Confused by the difference between a member and officer? Executive and scrutiny? subgroups and purdah? hustings? GMCA? Where did these…
We knew this was going to be an unusual Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee. The agenda had caused a double…
What follows is a guest post by James Harries, in response to the draft Zero Carbon Framework 2020-2038 published in…
Climate Emergency Manchester, with the help of allies, has produced a briefing paper about the “non-plans” due to be scrutinised…
Council’s response to HDQ#02 and our clarifications On Wednesday 14th January an article appeared on the Manchester Evening News website…
A new report reveals that Manchester City Council has achieved virtually nothing against the 23 elements of its ‘Climate Emergency’…
Last week Manchester City Council released a report on what has done on climate change since declaring a “climate emergency”…
Manchester City Council’s Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee (1) today discussed the city council’s communications strategy (nowt on climate emergency)…