Manchester City Council

Miles Platting and Newton Heath

  1. Ward-specific objectives

    Nature and biodiversity:

    • Identify two biodiversity enhancement projects to be delivered in Miles Platting and Newton Heath  locations by the end of Autumn 2024
    • Organise two community planting days in Newton Heath Peace Garden by engaging local community groups by October 2024

    Young people:

    • Hold a minimum of two environmental themed assemblies for local primary schools by the end of December 2024
    • Deliver a minimum of one litter pick with a local school or youth community group during the Great British Spring Clean 2024
    • Promotion of the Green Schools Network with Mies Platting and Newton Heath schools that are not already engaged and active. The Network aims to support and accelerate climate action in education settings across North Manchester (ongoing)

    Transport, active travel, air quality:

    • Deliver a minimum of two road closures events with inclusion of air quality monitoring (University of Manchester) during national campaigns Clean Air Day and Road Safety Week by the end of 2024 
    • Organise and deliver a minimum of two bike safety workshops for community/school groups by end of September 2024.

    Things we buy, use and bin:

    • Organise a minimum of one community upcycling workshop in line with National Recycling Week 2024
    • Arrange a community LED lightbulb swap event before end of January 2024
    • Pilot Refill (reducing single-use plastics use) campaign in Miles Platting and Newton Heath, and sign up a minimum of 10 new businesses by end of April 2024

    Food:

    • Hold one community cooking class which promotes low cost, low carbon health meals by the end of 2024
    • To work with Manchester City Council to improve and bring the existing raised planting beds in Brookdale Park back into use by the end of 2024
    • Distribute 100 vegetarian home making pizza packs across Miles Platting and Newton Heath by January 2024

    Homes and energy efficiency:

    • Energy advice services and advice to be included at all Neighbourhoods-led community events in the ward on an ongoing basis
    • Provide local community hubs including social supermarkets with free LED bubs to replace existing halogen bulbs, to reduce energy use and running costs by end of March 2024

    Engagement, raising awareness, influencing change:

    • Fund a minimum of one community lead Climate Change Neighbourhood Investment Project each financial year.
    • Facilitate the Creative Climate Resilience (UoM) Project to deliver another showing of their pageant by end of December 2024 – using arts to support inclusive, connected, and participatory neighbourhoods. 

  2. Who else is involved, and what they're doing

    In Our Nature:

    Lead partner: Manchester Climate Change Agency. 
    In Our Nature is a programme in partnership between Manchester Climate Change Agency, Hubbub, Groundwork Greater Manchester, Amity, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research and Manchester City Council. Between now and 2025 we’ll be working with communities across the city to connect the climate crisis to practical actions we can all take to make a difference, reduce our carbon emissions, save money, and learn something new.

     

    Creative Climate Resilience:

    Led by University of Manchester. Identifying barriers and solutions to climate mitigation and adaptation through socially engaged arts and community-based performances, with a view to create resources and inform future policy planning. 
    Pageantry performances and installations, creation of social media platforms for long-term engagement, development of school's resource package, academic research, publishing of "Report of Transferability" from project learning.

     

    Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Project (SHDF):

    Led by MCC Zero Housing Carbon Team - Strategic Housing, with Forever Consulting, GMCA, DESNZ
    SHDF is a Government funded programme for improving the energy efficiency of fuel poor, poorly insulated social housing. MCC has been successful in securing funding to deliver retrofit works across 1600+ Council properties across the city, improving them up to an EPC rating of C over the next 2 years.

  3. Contact

    Contact the Miles Platting and Newton Heath team by email: northneighbourhoodteam@manchester.gov.uk

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