An active neighbourhood with missing filters won’t get us walking, wheeling and cycling. In an open letter to the Greater Manchester Active Travel Commissioner Dame Sarah Storey, we have warned that a substandard scheme in Levenshulme & Burnage will fail our residents. The Levenshulme & Burnage Active Neighbourhood scheme is still not connecting people with […]
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Green shoots as we start 2024
Firstly – happy new year as we get stuck in to 2024. Work to further improve the active neighbourhood has begun! Firstly congratulations to all of our supporters who have contributed to making this happen. So many people have contributed in one way or another, whether it was sending an email to councillors, filling out […]
On the 5th of September Streets for People held a public meeting at Levenshulme Inspire Centre, for residents to find out about the latest updates to scheme and put their questions to our councillors. It’s always nerve-wracking organising a public meeting. The very nature of the event means it’s always very unpredictable. Will anyone attend? […]
It has been nearly two years since the last consultation on the Levenshulme & Burnage Low-traffic Neighbhourhood and still no final plans have been presented to the public. Only July 12th the Manchester City Council announced a partnership with TfGM to deliver the final scheme and further details would follow. We are holding this meeting to put […]
Funding still not secured for Active Neighbourhood as TfGM contradict MCC’s claims about who watered down the Active Neighbourhood Plans. On the 28th February S4PLB received a reply from Dame Sarah Storey (DSS) in regards to the follow-up letter we sent to her office in January. You can read her reply in full along with […]
In October 2022, Dame Sarah Storey (DSS), Greater Manchester’s Active Transport Commissioner, responded to our open letter (open letter #1 on 23 October 2022) about the disappointing Phase 2 designs for the Levenshulme and Burnage Active Neighbourhood Scheme (LBAN). A bit of context first for those of you who have lost the plot (and we […]
Streets for People are often asked about the history of the Levenshulme and Burnage Active Neighbourhood project. No wonder, given how long the project has now gone on for, and all of the changes – some publicly announced, many made in secret – that have beset it. So we’ve put together this handy timeline, which […]
Streets for People recently learned of a consultation being undertaken by Manchester City Council which closes on Tuesday 6th December 2022. As the below images show, the council have finally come to accept that there should be traffic filters between Greenbank Playing Fields and Greenbank Park, on the East end of Manor Road. The filters […]
Streets for People Levenshulme and Burnage have sent an open letter reply to Dame Sarah Storey’s reply to our original open letter. In our reply, we welcome the Active Travel Commissioner’s intervention in the Levenshulme and Burnage Active Neighbourhood planning fiasco, and trust that the intervention will now lead to positive moves that leads the […]
Manchester City Council’s latest Active Neighbourhood plans do not have approval – Dame Sarah Storey confirms In a reply to our open letter Active Travel Commissioner Dame Sarah Storey has confirmed that the recently announced Phase 2 Designs and for the Levenshulme and Burnage Active Neighbourhood Scheme (LBAN) have not been brought to TfGM’s Design […]
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