MIL-OSI UK Cities: Council’s 2019-20 budget set
Source: City of Manchester Manchester City Council has today (Friday 8 March) agreed its budget for 2019/20, the final year of a three-year budget plan which was originally set out back in 2017. That long term plan was shaped by a large-scale consultation exercise to understand what mattered most to them. Residents told us that […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: Regent Road resurfacing to begin next week
Source: City of Manchester Resurfacing work is set to begin on Regent Road next week, which will mark the final stage of a major project to ease traffic congestion along one of Manchester and Salford’s busiest key routes. The resurfacing work – being carried out as part of the Manchester and Salford Inner Relief Route […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: Manchester agrees cultural links with Danish cities
Source: City of Manchester A unique and forward-thinking agreement has been signed by Manchester and the Danish cities of Aarhus and Aalborg to pave the way for future cultural collaboration, which will focus on arts and health, young people and urban development and design. The agreement is the result of conversations between the three cities that first […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: Ban for bookie troublemakers under new town centre Betwatch scheme
Source: City of Manchester Troublemakers could soon face bans from city centre bookies as a new prevention scheme, Betwatch, looks to stack the odds against anti-social gamblers. On March 6 the ‘Betwatch’ scheme will be launched in partnership between the trade, Manchester City Council, Greater Manchester Police, the Gambling Commission and Cityco. In response to […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: Next steps for Piccadilly Gardens improvements outlined
Source: City of Manchester Piccadilly Gardens Manchester City Council is now set to commission landscape architects to draw up designs for improvements to the whole Piccadilly Gardens area. A recent survey of city centre residents, workers and visitors gave a largely positive picture but by far the biggest negative public realm issue cited was perceptions […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: Walk for Women to celebrate International Women’s Day
Source: City of Manchester Manchester continues in 2019, as it ended 2018, with plans to celebrate women across the city to mark International Women’s Day 2019 on March 8th . With women’s suffrage high on the city’s agenda following the unveiling of the Emmeline Pankhurst statue in St Peter’s Square, marking one hundred years since […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: Frank Sidebottom exhibition set to launch at Manchester Central Library
Source: City of Manchester A free exhibition of the Chris Sievey and Frank Sidebottom archives will open to the public at Manchester Central Library on Friday 1 March. The exhibition will include key artefacts telling the life story of the cult comic character and his creator, the Greater Manchester-born writer and musician Chris Sievey, who […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: All systems go for The Factory Manchester
Source: City of Manchester It’s all systems go for The Factory – Manchester’s landmark new cultural venue – with funding, lead contractor, and core staff all now in place to see it through from construction to completion. Work has now begun in earnest on the building which will be one of the largest and most flexible cultural spaces in […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: First Council-built homes for more than 7 years completed in north Manchester
Source: City of Manchester 40 new affordable Council homes in north Manchester have now been handed over to tenants, and a further 20 new shared ownership homes bought by the Council to help residents on to the property ladder. [embedded content] The 40, 2-bed homes located across six sites across north Manchester will be managed […]
Read More →MIL-OSI UK Cities: Homelessness centre which helped re-home almost 200 celebrates first anniversary
Source: City of Manchester One year after it opened The Longford Centre in Chorlton has prevented close to 200 people from being forced onto the streets. “Everybody had the same thing in common, we were all in need of somewhere to live.” Widening inequality has resulted in more and more people teetering on the edge […]
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