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Category: Scrutiny Committee Meetings

Scrutiny Week January 2021 – nowt on #climate – buildings, parks and “green infrastructure”

7 January, 2021 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

The tl:dr The council is getting away with not even looking at its climate policy failures. Climate Emergency Manchester is…

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Posted in: Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

November Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee – No bandwidth for the climate emergency

5 November, 2020 Chloe Jeffries 1 Comment

Simon Jermy reports for CEM on November NESC and how it further demonstrated the urgent need for a seventh scrutiny…

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Posted in: Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee, Petition for cash and democracy, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

Scrutiny Handbook launched – how to keep tabs on #Manchester City Council’s broken #climate promises

5 October, 2020 Marc Hudson 1 Comment

Manchester City Council is caught in an endless cycle of promises followed by lack of delivery.   There is a…

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Posted in: Active Citizenship Toolkit, Petition for cash and democracy, Scrutiny Committee Meetings, Student Climate Handbook

Scrutiny Week – barely a word on #climate – #Manchester #FireSafety #EconomicRecoveryNarrative

28 August, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

The first thing to say is that Climate Emergency Manchester’s next online meeting is from 8pm to 8.45pm-ish on Tuesday…

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Posted in: Economy Scrutiny Committee, Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee, Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

#Manchester City Council ignoring #climate risks. Will Audit Committee bother to ask?

27 July, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

Manchester City Council’s Audit Committee next meets on Tuesday 28th July at 10am. Its members have the power to ask…

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Posted in: Manchester City Council, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

What do we learn this week? Parallel universes and getting involved…

24 July, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

If Manchester City Council used up a quarter of its entire budget for a year in a week, you’d hear…

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Posted in: Manchester City Council, Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

Write to councillors, and make scrutiny work for pop-up cycle lanes in #Manchester

18 June, 2020 Marc Hudson 2 Comments

Manchester City Council is not being clear about what it is planning to do about pop-up cycle lanes. The other…

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Posted in: Cycle lanes, Manchester City Council, Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

Online @ClimateEmergMcr meeting abt scrutinising Council + movement-building- Monday 22nd June

7 June, 2020 Marc Hudson 1 Comment

From 7pm on Monday 22nd June, Climate Emergency Manchester will be holding an online meeting for people who a) want…

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Posted in: Manchester City Council, Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

Second report for discussion on Weds 27th May, 7pm – Petition for a 7th scrutiny committee: “help!”

25 May, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

Climate Emergency Manchester(CEM) is inviting members of the public to join us, online, on Wednesday 27th May at 7pm (the…

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Posted in: Petition for cash and democracy, Scrutiny Committee Meetings

Online meeting to scrutinise Council, talk about “what next and how?” – Weds 27th May, 7pm #Manchester #climate

22 May, 2020 Marc Hudson 3 Comments

CEMNESC overview report 2020 05 27On Wednesday 27th May citizens in Manchester will gather online to do three crucial things…

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Posted in: Scrutiny Committee Meetings, Upcoming events

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This is going to be a cycle/walking disaster for Ancoats

A cycle route along a canal towpath that is used by parents/children for school/nursery everyday...it's difficult enough already.

Just another case study in terrible planning in the area from Angeliki https://twitter.com/AngelikiStg/status/1364985110697754629

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Northern and Eastern Gateway cycling and walking project: you said
✔️routes away from busy roads
🚸improvements to key junctions
🌿more environmental improvements
🚲minimise on-street parking
We've taken on board and we want to hear more before we finalise the project 👇🚶‍♀️🚴‍♀️ https://twitter.com/ManCityCouncil/status/1364979334646272002

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Especially excited about this .. https://twitter.com/mcrmuseum/status/1364949267559948300

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