Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and urban region in North West England. It was created in 1974 from the city and associated towns that had formerly been in Lancashire, plus a few lying south of the River Mersey that had been in Cheshire....
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Manchester (Mamucium) was a focal point in the Roman road network. From the mid-17th century, whencottonbegan to be used in fabric manufacture, Manchester became important in thefustiantrade. By the late 18th century, following mechanization and the development of thefactory system, theregionwas...
Innovation Greater Manchester is the city-region’s offer to work with Government to boost research and development (R&D) investment across the whole of the city-region and level up the North. It calls for local-national partnerships, led by industry, to ensure investment lands in the ...
Pre-pandemic, Greater Manchester set an ambitious target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2038 – 12 years ahead of UK national targets. As we take fundamental steps towards our city region’s own target, green innovation is playing a significant role within the UK’s business community ...
Greater Manchester's mayor wants the region to be on of the greenest on the planet. Andy Burnham will launch has new plan later in front of hundreds of young people, business, residents and community groups. He wants the city region to be carbon-neutral by 2038, 12 years’ ahead of ...
Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone statement January 6th, 2022 In a statement issued today Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Councillor Andrew Western, the city-region’s Clean Air lead said: “In March 2020, the Government instructed all ten Greater Manchester councils to introduce a chargi...
Arup and Sustrans have begun work with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and the local councils to design ten active neighbourhood schemes across the Greater Manchester city region. Arup is delivering this project in partnership with Sustrans and 10GM. The Active Neighbourhoods project aims ...
Greater Manchester has a unique opportunity – to lead the way towards a sustainable zero-carbon future, in its buildings and built environment. The city-region is already on track for its 2020 target, but the harder steps are still to come. This calls for new models for design and construc...
The ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester – Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan – represent the largest city region economy outside London, with a gross value added (GVA) of £78.7 billion. In the decade to 2020, the eco...