Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Friends of the Earth welcomes breakthrough in deadlock over controversial Sefton road building plans

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news release

Friends of the Earth has welcomed a report from Sefton Council (released 1 Dec) looking at alternatives to Highways England’s controversial A5036 Port of Liverpool Access Scheme.

Clean Air Zone Consultation (Greater Manchester)

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Manchester Friends of the Earth responded on 3rd December to the Clean Air GM consultation on a proposed Clean Air Zone. Read our response here (pdf).

Manchester Friends of the Earth response to Manchester City Centre Transport Strategy

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Manchester Friends of the Earth responded to the Manchester City Centre Transport Strategy on 3rd November 2020. Read our response (pdf).

Please support a GM Clean Air Zone - respond to the Clean Air Plan consultation

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Air pollution is a public health emergency and action is urgently required. Greater Manchester is currently consulting on plans to introduce a charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ), and we need your support to make this happen.

Urgent Action needed to Clean Up Greater Manchester's illegal air pollution

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news release

Environmental campaigners and local parents are calling for more urgent and ambitious action to clean up air in Greater Manchester, as a consultation on a future Clean Air Zone is launched today (8 October).

Cut road spending and build back better (Transport Action Network)

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take action

We’re encouraging people to tell them not to waste £27 billion and more on new roads. We want the Government to #buildbackbetter after the Covid pandemic, and to help transport decarbonise. So if you can, please tell the Government what you think before the 24 September.

Call on Greater Manchester councils to respect the Stansted decision

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take action

In January, Uttlesford District Council (UDC) decided to reject plans to expand Stansted Airport because of the adverse impacts on climate change, air pollution and noise.

Mapped: more than one thousand locations in England still breaching air pollution limits

transport

news release

A data audit* by Friends of the Earth has revealed the 1,360 sites across England that have breached the annual Air Quality Objective for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) levels, which are set to protect health.

Ask your Councillors for on-street cycle storage!

transport

Read on to find out how to get secure cycle storage on your street.

Urgent: get your council to do more on Active Travel

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take action

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down, wreaking havoc on health and jobs. As a result, many of us are spending far more time at home – prompting traffic levels to drop, along with air pollution and carbon emissions. Restrictions on travel and movement mean roads are now being used more by walkers and cyclists.

Petition: Make streets safe for social distancing & save lives (Playing Out)

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take action

All of us – including children and vulnerable people – are having to frequently step into the road to follow the 2m rule, as most pavements are too narrow to pass safely. We’re also being encouraged to walk and cycle more as lockdown eases.

Campaigners welcome plans to pedestrianise Deansgate and call on Government to relax side-road zebra crossing rules

transport

news release

Manchester Friends of the Earth welcomes the plans announced by Manchester City Council to pedestrianise part of Deansgate and to create extended footways in other busy areas of Manchester, and calls on the Government to allow councils to install side-road zebra crossings without expensive Belisha beacons. [1]

Ask the Government to give the green light to “implied zebras”

transport

Crossing roads can be a lottery at the best of times, never mind if you have limited vision or mobility. But there’s a simple way to make our neighbourhoods safer for everyone - implied zebra crossings.

Ask your council for cycle space during lockdown (Cycling UK)

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Temporary cycling and walking space won't only help people get their daily exercise safely, but will allow key workers to cycle to work, whether they are hospital staff, care workers, or others providing vital services. Please let your council know how much this is needed, why it's important in your area, and how easy it is to do.

Ask your council to reallocate road space for walking (Living Streets)

transport

Under the current Covid-19 guidance, it is vital that, when we take our permitted daily exercise outside, we are able to do it safely. It is also important that keyworkers are able to travel safely.

Car-free in the twenty minute city

transport

event report

Imagine a city centre where you can get anywhere easily and safely. Where you can hear birdsong and breathe clean air. Where green spaces nestle amongst beautiful heritage and architecture. Where business, education and people flourish.

A303 Stonehenge Tunnel Petition hand-in to 10 Downing Street

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news release

Around 50,000 signatures to the Alliance’s petition [2] will be handed into 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. The petition is addressed to the Secretaries of State for Transport, and Culture, Media and Sport, asking for no further damage to be done to the archaeological landscape of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.

Piccadilly Station to Victoria station walking and cycling proposal - Love Your Bike response

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Our response to the consultation on the proposed walking and cycling route from Manchester Piccadilly Station to Victoria Station.

Show support for the Transport Select Committee's report asking for the Government to change the law on pavement parking (Guide Dogs)

transport

When cars are parked on pavements, people with a vision impairment may have to risk their lives by walking into the road just to get by them.

HS2 gets green light – Friends of the Earth reaction

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news release

Reacting to the government’s decision to give the go-ahead to HS2, Friends of the Earth’s campaigns director, Jamie Peters, said:

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