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Manchester Council

Manchester city council is a metropolitan district council, created in 1974, and is made up of 96 councillors - three for each of Manchester's 32 wards. The council is currently controlled by the Labour party. Its leader is Sir Richard Leese.

Revamp of historic city centre gardens set to go ahead
Manchester
The project led by a local group is estimated to cost around £3m
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The Fallowfield student bar at the centre of a heated row
Fallowfield
Residents said they are fed up with the noise from the bar's beer garden
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Fine for shop owner who sold counterfeit tobacco 'bought from man with van'
Newton Heath
'This case proves that in the end the truth will always come out'
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All the key developments submitted across Greater Manchester this week
Oldham Council
The latest planning applications submitted to Greater Manchester councils last week
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The big planning decisions made in Manchester this week
Manchester
Plans for student accommodation, hundreds of homes and industrial units were all considered by the planning committee
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The 'shocking' failures which left mum and three young kids stuck in 'uninhabitable home' full of damp and rot
Manchester
Manchester council's chief executive was told to apologise in person to the family
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Council forced to install CCTV to protect listed 15th century hall plagued by vandals
Clayton
The Grade II* listed building has been subjected to a string of vandalism
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The huge new apartment block and nine-storey student flats which could soon be built in Manchester
Manchester City Centre
The planning committee will meet at the town hall this week to decide on the planning applications
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Council 'to sell off half' of Central Retail Park as government eyes offices
Manchester City Centre
The 10-and-a-half acre site has been at the centre of many political battles in recent years
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'We've lost everything. We have nothing in this area'
Manchester
The community is fighting back - and not for the first time
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Council plans to generate more than half of Hammerstone Depot's power with massive solar panel drive
Openshaw
The council are aiming to become zero-carbon by 2038
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'I left law to work in security - now I can afford a four-bedroom house'
Real Life
Working as a paralegal paid 'peanuts', Mudasir says. But thanks to his new job, he's now a homeowner
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All the new developments that could be built around Greater Manchester
Manchester Council
A number of different planning applications have been submitted across the region this week
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The 'secret' bar in Manchester hidden behind a launderette where people turn up with dirty washing
Manchester City Centre
Don't expect to get any washing done at this 'laundrette'
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Massive skyscraper set to replace town centre Premier Inn gets final sign off
Manchester City Centre
Huge new student accommodation block will be coming to Manchester
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Bizarre moment pair try to remove wheel clamp from their Audi - before driving off with chains still on
Manchester City Centre
The Audi A4 drove through the city centre with chains still attached
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Manchester will become home to the UK's biggest climbing centre
Wythenshawe
The new climbing centre is expected to be the biggest in the UK
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Manchester Council leader issues last-ditch plea to government
Manchester
Manchester town hall faces a £46m budget gap. Council leader Bev Craig says 'it is becoming increasingly impossible to make ends meet'
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It's the biggest cause of preventable death in Manchester... but leaders are struggling to tackle the problem
Manchester City Centre
Tackling the issue of smoking is a huge issue for local leaders
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The Manchester neighbourhood which could soon be plunged into 'total darkness'
Manchester
'The community spirit had come back to this estate - this could ruin everything'
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Manchester shop caught selling TOXIC jewellery
Cheetham Hill
Earrings seized were found to contain high levels of a potentially dangerous chemical
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The Manchester neighbourhood where affordable homes are going to be built
House Prices
Five sites in north and east Manchester, as well as one near the city centre, are to benefit from millions in new funding
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After years of progress, homelessness is back on the rise in Greater Manchester
Homelessness
Numbers jumped up by 42 percent from 2022 to August 2023, and are expected to worsen at the next count in November - but are still better than the nadir of 2017
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'The Covid Inquiry has revealed the government delayed lockdown by 10 days - my mum might not have been one of the first to die'
Coronavirus
'It was clearly dysfunctional and chaotic, there seems to have been simply no regard for the effect on people – it makes my blood boil'
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