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Levy School Streets: The report Manchester Council don’t want you to see

Schoolchildren denied their own school safety measures. It’s the report Manchester City Council didn’t want you to see, which has been sat on by Manchester City Council since 4 June 2020. The leaked report contains details of extensive consultation done at both primary and secondary schools in Levenshulme and Burnage. The local community, parents and […]

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Sunday’s Public Meeting: A Written Account

Last Sunday, Streets for People Levenshulme and Burnage was proud to hold its first public meeting. It is now over two months since plans to trial a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) were paused and there has been no formal public engagement from the council in that time, leaving parents in the dark about urgently needed […]

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Public meeting: Safe roads for kids – What’s happened to the Low Traffic Neighbourhood plans?

The Levenshulme Low Traffic Neighbourhood trials were paused in early July, to allow for more community engagement. Since then, Manchester City Council have conducted no engagement at all, and the vast majority of residents are in the dark as to what’s happening. What’s more, the chaos outside our schools that we have spent the summer […]

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Don’t Pollute the School Route: The case for “School Streets”

There is a catastrophe on the horizon as schools look set to go back next week. Not just because of covid, masks, and social distancing, but the return of the school run, a currently car-heavy routine that will see clouds of pollution descend back in front of our school gates. School Streets were due to […]