Place North West | THING OF THE WEEK
7 May 2021, 12:43 PROTEST…Extinction Rebellion, along with local residents, has set up camp on Manchester’s Ryebank Fields in an attempt to prevent the land being redeveloped into housing. The site is owned by Manchester Metropolitan University, which plans to sell it to a developer to build 70 homes. It would be something of an understatement to say that the plans have been controversial – residents use the land for recreational purposes and don’t want to part with it. Indeed, a whopping 44% of responses to the most recent consultation on Manchester’s local plan were voicing object...
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