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.
COVID-19 is causing widespread disruption to the UK planning system, which is there to ensure that the development and use of land is in the public interest. Recent legislation gave councils new powers to change the way they take planning decisions. This could undermine the public voice in planning and calls into question levels of transparency and democratic oversight of planning decisions.
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.
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.
Manchester City Council is preparing its Local Plan - a plan for how the city will develop over the next 15 to 20 years.
Donald Trump wants a toxic trade deal with the UK. And UK Trade Secretary Liz Truss is keen to start negotiations as soon as she can, despite the pandemic.
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.
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From devastating flooding to toxic air pollution, we need to rapidly restore our degraded environment.
The UK government is pumping millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money into oil and gas projects around the world – fuelling the climate crisis.
We're calling on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to take a simple step: ditch the coal.
The Government is considering creating a new offence that will criminalise trespassing and ‘unauthorised encampments’. This means that Gypsies and Travellers could face imprisonment for their way of life, communities could be banned from returning to a specific area for a year, and could have their homes taken away.
In November 2019, many of you joined us in calling on UK supermarkets to take action on pesticides. Thank you! Now, as spring approaches and gardeners prepare for the year ahead, it’s time to ask UK supermarkets to take pesticide products off their shelves.
Ahead of the Greater Manchester Mayoral election on 7th May 2020, Andy Burnham the current Mayor, is asking people for ideas to be included in his Election Manifesto.
We are coming together from across the whole European Union to call for a bee-friendly agriculture to the benefit of farmers, health and the environment!
The UK government is currently deciding whether to pump millions in taxpayers' money into a vast new gas drilling development in Mozambique.
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.
PFAS - per or poly-fluorinated alkyl substances - are a group of industrial chemicals widely used in everyday products. Found in everything from food packaging to clothing, cookware, cleaning products and makeup, they are almost impossible to escape.
The BBC’s Panorama programme found that there have been twenty times more near-misses on the M25 since the introduction of so-called ‘smart motorways’.
