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A Liveable and Low-Carbon City A liveable and low-carbon city Chapter 5: A liveable and low-carbon city Strategic overview ambition to become zero-carbon by 2038. Other programmes and continued investment into environmental factors also remain a priority voluntary and community-sector funding. The Our Manchester Strategy set out the for the city. These include developing our green vision for Manchester to ‘be in the top flight infrastructure, repurposing our contaminated Manchester is growing and becoming ever-more of world-class cities by 2025’ and committed land (a by-product of our industrial heritage), diverse. We are a welcoming city, and residents the city to ‘playing its full part in limiting the improving air quality, increasing recycling and have a proud track record of positive integration impacts of climate change’. The future success reducing the amount of waste that goes to and respecting one another’s cultures, of Manchester is inextricably tied to whether landfill, making sure our streets are clean and faiths and ways of life. We want Manchester it is a great place to live. litter-free, and reducing the amount of fly-tipping. people to be proud of their institutions, their neighbourhood, and their city, which will This chapter provides a detailed analysis of This chapter will also focus on some of the reflect and celebrate this diversity. the local housing market and how the city is Community Safety issues that have a direct addressing issues by developing a diverse supply and significant impact on residents, visitors This chapter outlines how progress is being of good-quality housing available to rent and and people working in this city. We’re working made to achieve these aims, the strategies buy that is well-designed, energy-efficient, with partners and communities to reduce the being used to structure the work, the sustainable and affordable to Manchester’s amount of crime and antisocial behaviour in partnership approaches we’re adopting, diverse residents. By meeting this aim we will the city, to provide safer, attractive and and the specific indicators that demonstrate encourage more working people and families cohesive neighbourhoods. where progress is being made. to stay and live in Manchester, contributing to the city’s success. To secure Manchester’s position as an This is detailed in the following six subsections: international city, we review the world-class However, a liveable city is more than this. → A diverse supply of good-quality housing visitor offer provided by a richness of cultural, The Our Manchester Strategy set out a clear affordable to everyone leisure, events and sports facilities. We’re ambition for Manchester to become a low- providing better-quality parks and green spaces, → Encouraging a low-carbon culture carbon city by playing a full part in limiting the and are investing in libraries, culture, sport impacts of climate change and being on a path → Recycling more of our waste, and having and events for residents’ benefit. Residents to being zero-carbon by 2050. In 2018, this clean litter-free neighbourhoods are becoming more actively involved in the target was revised with a more challenging future of our city through various volunteering → Safe and cohesive neighbourhoods Manchester’s State of the City Report 2020 155 A liveable and low-carbon city → Improving the quality of parks, green Analysis of progress spaces, rivers and canals A diverse supply of good-quality → Vibrant neighbourhoods: culture, libraries, housing affordable to everyone leisure, sport and volunteering. Housing development picture The Residential Growth Strategy (2015–2025) The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the sets out the city’s approach to providing the delivery of key services and has posed significant right mix of housing for a growing and increasingly challenges to the city’s cultural and leisure offer. diverse population. The Strategy commits to The closure of sites resulted in the refocusing building 32,000 new homes in Manchester of libraries and leisure programmes so they between 2015 and 2025, including a minimum could be accessed online, and the Digital of 6,400 new affordable homes. Inclusion programme was established to provide residents with devices to access this Manchester’s residential pipeline remains offer. Temporary improvements to the city’s in a period of significant delivery, providing air quality due to fewer vehicles on the road thousands of new homes each year for our during the pandemic will be supported by residents. There are currently over 9,500 new the introduction of the Greater Manchester homes under construction, including some Clean Air Plan and Clean Air Zone to accelerate 7,800 in the city centre, and there was a record emission reductions. The generosity of our number of cranes – more than eighty – on the residents, who stepped up in numerous skyline in summer 2019. volunteering roles to provide food and assistance for residents who were isolated or in need, was truly outstanding. The long-term impacts of COVID-19 and the associated measures implemented by the Government to limit the spread of the virus will not be known for some time, but Manchester is a resilient city and our residents are renowned for getting together in times of hardship. Manchester’s State of the City Report 2020 156 A liveable and low-carbon city Figure 5.1: Figure 5.1 shows that in 2019/20, 4,161 new Housing completions 2007/08–2019/20 homes were built (2,869 in the city centre , and 1,292 in the rest of the city). This is on top City centre Rest of city of the 2,927 built in 2018/19, bringing the total new homes built since 2015/16 to 13,219. This puts Manchester at the forefront of the , response to the national housing shortage, with more new homes built in the city in 2019/20 than any London borough. , , , , Total housing completions Total , / / / / / / / / / / / / / baseline Financial year Source: Manchester City Council tax records (2007/08–2013/14), Manchester City Council Expected Completions List (2014/15–2019/20) Manchester’s State of the City Report 2020 157 A liveable and low-carbon city Notable completed developments this year in line with Government guidelines. As such, over 72,000.1 The latest in-house forecasts include 496 homes at Deansgate Square while it is likely that timescales will be extended, from the Manchester City Council Forecasting (South Tower), which upon completion became there remains strong demand for new housing Model (MCCFM) (calculated prior to COVID-19) the tallest residential building in the UK and a dynamic and expansive development suggest that Manchester’s population will outside London, and 172 new apartments at pipeline to match. increase by around 48,000 new residents over Axis Tower (Deansgate Locks). These schemes the next five years. This is in part attributed are beginning to transform the skyline, with Demand for housing is growing to the fact that while inward migration from signature residential developments reflecting Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, there was within the EU is declining, the number of the increasing maturity and attraction of the evidence some sites appeared to be taking people coming to the city from outside the EU housing market in the city centre alongside longer to complete than planned. This was has been increasing. Manchester’s resident the scale of the city’s regeneration ambition. partly due to increased supply chain costs, population is discussed in more detail in the intense competition, uncertainty relating ‘A thriving and sustainable city’ chapter. Outside the city centre, a similarly positive to the 2019 general election, and the UK’s picture is evident, with a number of prominent subsequent exit from the EU. However, Housing demand is diversifying developments being completed in 2019/20, there is no evidence to support any sense Part of the challenge of meeting housing including family-housing across a number of of a slowdown in demand. demand relates to the large number of homes sites within the Miles Platting PFI (Private taken out of mainstream circulation by the Finance Initiative) (over 100 new homes built Perhaps the most powerful evidence of this is large number of students living in south in 2019/20), and the redevelopment of the the proportion of long-term empty properties Manchester, and increasingly within the city former Manchester Metropolitan University St (over six months) in the city, which remains centre and the Corridor area in particular. James’ Campus in Didsbury (94 new homes). exceptionally low. In March 2020, only 0.56% of There were 8,800 mainstream properties let Work also continues on larger family-housing homes in the city centre and 0.52% of homes to students in Manchester in 2019, representing schemes, such as ‘825 Didsbury’ (85 homes) across the rest of the city were empty, despite £12.4million of exempt council tax revenue and larger-scale mixed-tenure developments, an increase of over 13,000 new homes in the (including all precepts) in the city, and over such as Melland Road in Longsight (131 homes). period from 2015. £5million in the city centre alone, as per the 2020/21 charging regime. The number of While construction slowed following the Housing demand in Manchester is a result of students – particularly foreign students, who introduction of the Government’s lockdown the continued growth in the resident population are most likely to live in the city centre – has measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, of the city, and the city centre in particular. been increasing over recent years. The number activity has started to pick up as contractors Since 2015, the city centre population has have started to adopt safe working practices increased by some 20,000, and now stands at 1 Manchester City Council Forecasting Model (MCCFM) W2020 Manchester’s State of the City Report 2020 158 A liveable and low-carbon city of Chinese students in particular has increased particularly as to whether some properties At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown period by almost a third, from 4,487 in 2015/16 to 5,942 may switch to the mainstream market in in March 2020, construction was paused on in 2018/19.
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