Is it just me or does the confirmation of Manchester as a low carbon area one day, followed by the launch of a £100m North West Urban Investment Fund the next, grate a little? On one hand we’re planning to retrofit the North West’s biggest metropolitan area and on the other we’re investing £££ in new urban development (albeit sustainable). Aren’t many of Manchester’s recent new builds half empty at the moment anyway? Hopefully the retrofitting doesn’t involve those that have sprung up over the last ten years. Both of these initiatives involve the NWDA but have been made, in a week when world leaders are deciding our the fate of our environment, without any communication of a vision for the North West’s long term sustainability.
So what does this mean that Manchester’s cold war-esque ‘nuclear free city’ signs from the 80s featuring a white dove of peace will be changed to…..?
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Vision-free communications for a carbon-free region?
Posted by chameleon-admin December 14 2009 06:46pm