Support for the Hulme's Birley Fields campaign

Manchester Metropolitan University’s (MMU) proposal to build a £120 million campus development on Hulme’s Birley Fields is likely to go before Manchester City Council’s planning committee for consideration in late June or July 2011 regardless of some reports jumping the gun.Local resident’s concerns about the development, some of which include thesize of buildingseffects on the communityloss of open spacetraffic, congestion and pollutionremain despite MMU’s attempt to address some of these worries.In response, local residents haveset up a websiteheld workshops on how to write ‘letters of objection’taken their concerns to the press with stories...

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Hulme Local Elections 2011 Results and Response

First of all the Hulme Green Team would like to thank everyone voted for us, we greatly appreciate your support.We also would like to thank everyone who put in time, were on the streets, commented, advised, talked to us from your windows and rang us up, it all helped make our campaign.The issues raised during our campaign, we will continue to pursue, we will make ourselves as accessible as we can to our community.Finally, we congratulate Labour on their victory in Hulme and particularly Manchester. We hope that they take on board the comments on representing all the community and in Hulme, take on board community concerns on the big changes...

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Hulme May 2011: VOTE GREEN, VOTE BERGAN

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