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  • Greater Manchester Clean Air Proposal

    Dirty air from road transport can seriously damage our health and plays a part in thousands of deaths every year. Greater Manchester needs to reduce air pollution to legal levels as quickly as possible. The 10 local councils in Greater Manchester are developing a Clean Air Plan to tackle this major risk to our health. The proposals include a Clean Air Zone, alongside major government funding to clean up the region’s most-polluting vehicles. We’d like your views on our proposals... More
    Closed 30 June 2019
  • Our Pass Opportunities

    Our Pass is for 16 to 18 year olds in Greater Manchester. It combines free bus travel with access to exciting sports, culture and leisure opportunities and other offers. Applications for Our Pass will open in July via www.ourpass.co.uk and you will be able to start using it in September. Young people are at the heart of Our Pass – young people chose its name and designed the card. Now we want to find out what you want to do... More
    Closed 23 June 2019
  • Plastic waste and recycling in Greater Manchester

    Recycle for Greater Manchester is the public facing brand of GMCA waste and resources. We work with local councils in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford, to inspire and encourage the residents of Greater Manchester to manage their waste responsibly, helping residents to see the value of waste and the real benefits that can be achieved by wasting less and recycling right. (Wigan is not part of Recycle for Greater Manchester because... More
    Closed 22 April 2019
  • The Greater Manchester Plan for Homes, Jobs and the Environment

    Greater Manchester's Plan for Homes, Jobs and the Environment: The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, is all about making our city region fit for the future and one of the best places in the world to live, work and visit. This is how young people from across Greater Manchester see their city-region in the future ... Plan for Homes, Jobs, and the Environment (FULL DRAFT) Plan for Homes, Jobs and the Environment (OVERVIEW) ... More
    Closed 18 March 2019
  • Mayoral Development Corporation - Regenerating Stockport's Town Centre West

    Stockport’s Town Centre West is set to become Greater Manchester’s newest, greenest, and coolest affordable urban neighbourhood. History and nature set a great context for streets and buildings to quickly establish a distinctive urban environment and a truly sustainable place to live. Town Centre West will be a walkable neighbourhood at the heart of things. It will provide a choice of homes and workspace. Residents and business... More
    Closed 10 March 2019
  • Greater Manchester’s Big Alcohol Conversation

    The Greater Manchester vision is to make our city region one of the best places in the world. A place where everyone can have the best start in life, live well and age well. Protecting people from the harms caused by alcohol is an important part of this. The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority are aiming to reduce the harms associated with alcohol while supporting Greater Manchester’s communities and night... More
    Closed 28 February 2019
  • Commitments to individuals with palliative care needs

    Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Network are currently developing a Palliative and End of Life Care Framework. The Framework will set a number of objectives and outline the outcomes that the people in Greater Manchester can expect to live well during the last year of life with dignity, in the place of their choice, regardless of disease, setting, age and circumstance. The Framework will contain 12 individual focused commitments and 4 system enabling commitments,... More
    Closed 31 January 2019
  • Police funding 2019/20

    Funding for the police comes both directly from central government and also a proportion of your council tax. About 80% of the funding for the police comes in a grant from the government, and the Mayor is responsible for setting the amount of council tax that local households pay for the police. Since 2010 the government has cut the amount of cash they provide to Greater Manchester Police by £215 million. This has resulted in the loss of 2,000 police officers – a 25% reduction... More
    Closed 27 January 2019
  • Developing a Drug and Alcohol Strategy for Greater Manchester

    Drugs and alcohol are everybody’s business. Drugs and alcohol misuse impacts on the health and wellbeing of our residents, the safety of our communities, and the vibrancy and economic future of our town centres and night time economies. As well as causing health problems, such as cancer, liver cirrhosis and heart disease, we know that alcohol affects the well-being of families, and is a major contributor to domestic abuse, violent crime and public disorder. We know that the issues... More
    Closed 13 January 2019
  • Music in Greater Manchester

    Hello and welcome to our second survey about music in Greater Manchester! We've already asked musicians from across Greater Manchester their views on the music scene across the city-region and now we're asking music go-ers to tell us about their experiences of music in Greater Manchester. We want to hear your views on all things music - where do you watch it? What venues do you like? And what how can we improve the music scene in Greater Manchester? All of your... More
    Closed 14 December 2018
  • Developing a Good Employment Charter for Greater Manchester

    Greater Manchester is developing a Good Employment Charter. The aim of the Charter is to help employers reach excellent employment standards and become more successful as a result. Greater Manchester must be a place where people can fulfil their ambitions. That means making it a place where people want to live and work, whether they are setting up their own business or working as an employee. We are therefore setting out a... More
    Closed 26 November 2018
  • Developing Good Jobs and Growth: Greater Manchester’s Local Industrial Strategy

    Greater Manchester is a world-renowned centre of industry, innovation, enterprise and creativity. Developing a local industrial strategy is an exciting opportunity to build on our pioneering history and drive our city-region forward as a global economic powerhouse. As one of just three ‘trailblazer’ areas in the UK, we are working collaboratively with government to develop our local industrial strategy. It will be our joint plan for creating exciting, well-paid jobs in... More
    Closed 25 November 2018
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