Policies
TRANSPORT
- Reduce overall need to travel
- 20 mph speed limit in all residential areas
- Better walking and cycling provision
- Buses back under full public control
- Metrolink extension to replace road not rail
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
- Reduce carbon emissions as a top priority
- Major support for solar and other renewables
- Get the 3 'R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) in the right order, improve Manchester's record on all of them
- No expansion of the Airport
PLANNING
- Embargo on the destruction of green spaces
- Greater scrutiny of proposals for large supermarkets and skyscrapers
- Planning process more accessible and free of jargon
- Promote allotments and grow more food in the City
CRIME and ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
- Tackle the causes; help restore communities
- End the misuse and overuse of ASBOs
- More use of positive interventions such as Support Orders
HOUSING
- Free insulation for those who need it
- More accountability on stock transfer
- More housing for the less well off, not ‘buy-to-let'
EDUCATION
- Neighbourhood schools not Academies
- Better out-of-school facilities for children and young people
- Schools to set green example, e.g. in energy and recycling
- Free school meals for every pupil










