GM Mayor sets out bold ambition to prevent homelessness across city-region Date published: 15 May 2021
Andy Burnham
A new drive to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping across Greater Manchester by tackling the root causes has been announced by Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, in an ambitious and wide-ranging acceleration of the city-region’s approach.
The draft Greater Manchester Homelessness Prevention Strategy, published yesterday (Friday) for a period of public consultation, shows how the drive to end rough sleeping and homelessness will broaden in the Mayor’s second term to address the root causes of homelessness, such as poor quality, insecure housing.
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Neil Tague
The energy and regeneration specialist is to retrofit 20 buildings across the borough as part of the Goverment’s drive to cut emissions across public sector estates.
In March, a conditional £78.3m was awarded to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority by Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, to administer the Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme across the ten boroughs.
GMCA and its partners will be expected to undertake retrofit works to improve the carbon efficiency of public assets.
Rochdale Council submitted an application on 23 November 2020 for the decarbonisation of 10 corporate buildings, including leisure centres, and 10 schools, amounting to around £11m.
Plans revealed for mega £8.6million health and science centre at college
The multi-million pound development will include a state-of-the-art laboratory, simulated hospital ward, and domestic home
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An impression of what the new building could look like (Image: Bury College/Mosaic Town Planning)
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What the fate of this Mobike can teach Greater Manchester about bike hire schemes
Stolen, vandalised and even sunk - but what can the fate of Mobike teach leaders about Manchester s next cycle hire scheme?
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The mayor s long-awaited bike hire scheme is finally gaining traction.