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FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 14 – NOVEMBER 2007

LEVENSHULME INSPIRE COMMUNITY OPEN DAY AND CONSULTATION:

Saturday 24th November, 10:30am-2:00pm, United Reformed Church, Stockport Road. There are plans for a multi-purpose community room in the Levenshulme United Reformed Church as part of a development, also including flats, on the site. This is a consultation event organised by Manchester Methodist Housing Association and South Manchester Regeneration Team. Also, ALL FM are broadcasting and YASP are providing some refreshments. Some of us are going along to see what the score is, and I'm sure any interested people would be welcome.

HOW SHOULD YOUR CITY GROW? CONSULTATION EVENT ORGANISED BY THE COUNCIL:

Tuesday 4th December, 12:00pm-8:30pm, Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street. The City Council is hosting this event, where people can "chat to Planning Officers about the options for the future development of Manchester". Many of us would like to see investment in community facilities as one of those options, and a bit less emphasis on the currently preferred "option" of letting our facilities fall to pieces. We will be attending the meeting on masse with banners, placards and so forth from 6:00pm. Please join us.

FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME PUBLIC MEETING TO PLAN THE NEXT STEPS OF THE CAMPAIGN:

Saturday 8th December, 2:30pm, Levenshulme Library. We've all had chance to chew over that big meeting with Sir Richard Leese and Sir Gerald Kaufmann earlier in the month. This meeting is partly to gather people's opinions on what was said there, but mainly to discuss what our next steps should be in keeping the pressure up and the temperature high. We are a loose, open organisation and we need your input in order to be effective. Please come along and throw in your ideas. ALL ARE WELCOME.

WORK ON LEVENSHULME COMMUNITY PEACE GARDEN IS ONGOING:
Having put together a detailed proposal for a Peace Garden on the Chapel Street site, we were told by the Council's chief executive that we'd have to bid against businesses, to the tune of around £100, 000.00, in order to use the old community centre site. Rather than let our hard work go to waste, and rather than let the land become a dumping ground, we've decided to get started on building the garden anyway. First up will be that patch near the phonebox. We're in touch with a number of charities and city planning groups who are giving their support. If you'd like to be involved in this in any way at all, drop us a line or come and talk to us at meetings.
Leaflets for the library meeting are available on the website, feel free to print some out and leaflet your streets. Finally, as announced at the Leese meeting, these updates are now available on paper too for those without internet access, and can be picked up from South Levenshulme Post Office. Please let neighbours and friends, particularly elderly ones, know about this.



FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 13 28/10/07

1. PUBLIC MEETING WITH SIR RICHARD LEESE, SATURDAY 3RD NOVEMBER Venue - St. Peter's Church, corner of Stockport Road and Barlow Road.
As already publicised, Sir Richard Leese, Leader of the City Council, is due to meet Levenshulme residents at 2pm next Saturday afternoon, when we will expect him to respond to the questions and concerns of local people.
FoL wish to make it plain that the meeting is a FoL initiative, and not a Labour Party one. FoL continue to be an independent group of local residents and traders, campaigning to make Levenshulme a better place in which to live and work. Sir Gerald Kaufman, as our local MP, has helped to organise next Saturday's meeting, but we stress that FoL are not aligned with any political party.
We are hoping to have a better microphone system at next Saturday's meeting, as people at the back of the church hall were unable to hear or be heard at the public meeting on 10th October.
Please come along and show your support, and help to keep up the pressure. Spread the word about the meeting to friends and neighbours.
Everyone is welcome.

2. GREENBANK FIELDS
As you may have seen in the local press, the planning application at Greenbank Fields was recently 'pulled' by the City Council. This is a victory for local campaigners.
The representative of the developers, Dappa Homes, is quoted in the South Manchester Reporter (25th October) as saying, 'We discovered that there was such opposition to the plans that we have decided to withdraw them – we got the message.'

3. TOY SALE – FRIDAY 16TH NOVEMBER
A sale of 'pre-loved' toys, baby and children's clothing, jumble and home-baking will take place between 11am and 1pm on Friday 16th November.
Admission is £1. Cost of hiring a stall is £5. Admission and stall fee proceeds will be donated to Children in Need.
Venue- Function Room, Wheatsheaf Public House, 1065 Stockport Road, at the junction of Broom Lane and Stockport Road.
If you are interested in hiring a stall, please phone Holly on 07719 383188


FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 12 - 26/09/07

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN LEVENSHULME? 'Who's Looking After Levenshulme?' has served really well as a campaigning theme in our publicity this year. For the next stage we want to ask 'What's Happening in Levenshulme?' One answer is - we are. There's a flurry of activity coming up:

FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME SOCIAL Saturday 6th October, at The Sidings pub on Broom Lane (opposite Bristol Avenue), from 8.00pm. Come and celebrate progress made so far. Claire Mooney, sing/songwriter and local resident, will be debuting her new song 'Who's Looking After Levenshulme?'. Entrance is free, but donations to the FoL campaign will be warmly welcome. For more information on Claire Mooney check: www.clairemooney.co.uk

FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE MEETING Wednesday 10th October, at St. Peter's Church (corner of Barlow Rd and Stockport Rd), 6.30pm. This is a public meeting to let the community know what's been happening on all the different campaigning fronts over the summer. There have been a number of developments people should know about. Look at the website to see the poster/leaflet, which shows the major local issues highlighted for the meeting.

SIR RICHARD LEESE VISITS LEVENSHULME Saturday 3rd November, at St. Peter's Church at 2.00pm. Gerald Kaufman MP has agreed a date for a public meeting in Levenshulme with Sir Richard Leese, Leader of the City Council. It's as a direct result of the petition you all signed earlier in the year that he's Levenshulme-bound. This is a rare opportunity for us to voice our concerns directly to the boss of the City Council. Mark this one in your diary; we anticipate it'll be a good one.


LEVENSHULME COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Saturday 10th November, at St. Peter's Church at 1pm. There have been discussions about winding up the Levenshulme Community Association from March 2008. This is a special general meeting of LCA to consider what type of organisation we need to represent the community's views in the future. Come and make your opinions known. More information will follow.

How you can help
Leaflets and posters are being prepared this week, and we'll be on Stockport Road on the next two Saturdays - 29 th September and 6th October - meeting at the Green at the junction of Chapel Street and Stockport Road at 11.00am - to hand out leaflets and get people interested and talking about the meetings. Please join us. The other help you can give is to distribute leaflets in your immediate area - can you do that? Just reply to this email and we'll get leaflets to you.

Finally, it's worth noting that a large amount of new material has been put on the website, especially in relation to Sure Start at Broom Avenue Childrens' Centre,
see: http://levenshulme.wetpaint.com/page/Sure+Start+Levenshulme

FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 11 - 20/8/07
SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY GARDEN: SUNDAY 26TH AUGUST AT 11AM Come and join a clean up of the Community Centre site (Chapel Street/Gordon Avenue) at 11.00am next Sunday – before the Picnic in the Park (see below). Bring gloves and garden tools if you have them.
Many of the plants to the rear of the site have thrived since we established the garden in May, and there are colourful wild flowers and weeds covering much of the remaining ground. At 12.00 there will be photographs. We will use the images to promote the campaign for the Peace Garden. Let's once again show our commitment to the garden.
Let's persuade the City Council to demonstrate an equal commitment to preserve and develop this community asset.

PICNIC IN THE PARK, SUNDAY 26th AUGUST, 1.00-4.00PM, GREENBANK FIELDS You already know about our fun event in Greenbank Fields Park (between Manor Road and Barlow Road) on Sunday. Please come along, with your picnic/refreshments. There will be games and activities for all ages, and lots of information about community activities and the ongoing local campaigns.

CRINGLE FIELDS PARK – BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY, 27th AUGUST As part of the Cringle Fields Park Summer Fair, on Bank Holiday Monday, Levenshulme Community Arts Players present 'Twins from Madagascar'. The show marks the bicentenary of the Bill of March 1807 to abolish the slave trade. Come from 12.00 noon. The performance runs from 1.00pm.




FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 10 – 12/8/07

BANK HOLIDAY EVENT: PICNIC IN THE PARK, SUNDAY 26th AUGUST, 1.00-4.00PM, GREENBANK FIELDS
To mark the re-launch of our campaign for the autumn – and to support the continuing campaign around the future of Greenbank Park – Friends of Levenshulme is organising a fun event for people of all ages on the afternoon of Sunday 26th August. There are now posters in shops publicising this event, and we aim to distribute leaflets to 2-3,000 households soon. Please put the date and time in your diary, and come if you can.
FoL Update 11, next weekend, will give more information.
At 11.00am – before the Picnic in the Park – we plan a clean up and a photo opportunity at the old Community Centre site (Chapel Street/Gordon Avenue). Please do your best to join us there beforehand. More information about this, too, will follow.

FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME PUBLIC MEETING, WEDS. 10TH OCTOBER, ST. PETER'S CHURCH, 6.30PM
The Leader of the Council, Richard Leese, has agreed to come to Levenshulme and meet local people in a public meeting, probably in late October or early November. Before that we plan our own public meeting on Wednesday 10th October. This will give the chance to report back on campaigns and developments in recent months, and to decide what sort of meeting you want with Councillor Leese, and what he needs to be asked. There will be posters and leaflets for the public meeting on 10th October in mid-September.

RE-DEVELOPMENT OF ST. MARY'S SITE
The group looking at shopping, planning & land use issues has met four times. There has been correspondence with the Catholic Diocese of Salford about delay in re-development of the St. Mary's site. The group now understand that a development proposal for the site is imminent, but that the nature of public consultation on the proposal is not clear. Watch this space.

GOOD NEWS FROM THE SOUTH MANCHESTER REPORTER
The South Manchester Reporter has extended its distribution to cover most of Levenshulme from this week – previously the distribution did not extend east of the railway/A6. This is good news because the paper has reported very positively on Friends of Levenshulme activities, but previously half of Levenshulme has not had access to the coverage. The current edition – 9th August – has a story on page eight, 'One road,
22 nations' highlighting Levenshulme's diversity: 'Twenty-two different nationalities are working side-by-side along a small stretch of Stockport Road, which is being hailed as one of the most multi-cultural parts of Manchester'.


FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 9 – 9/7/07

CITY COUNCIL, WEDNESDAY (11TH JULY), 10AM
No response has yet been received from the Council Leader to the petition presented to him on 18th May. We had understood that a reply would be sent to Friends of Levenshulme by the end of June. Councillor Keith Whitmore will ask a question about the response to the petition at the City Council meeting on Wednesday. Please join us in the public gallery for the Council meeting on Wednesday - we want to be there and visible when the question is put. The meeting begins at 10am. The timing of the question is uncertain, but it will be anytime up to mid-morning. COME AND JOIN US IN THE GALLERY BY 10.15AM. Access to the public gallery is via the entrance to the Town Hall extension in Mount Street, near to the passage by the Central Library, and opposite the Friends Meeting House. The gallery is on the fourth floor.

SURE START - MEETING HELD AT THE MADINA MOSQUE ON 4TH JULY
Forty-nine people attended last week's meeting about Sure Start plans for the under-5s in Levenshulme. Sure Start representatives chose not to attend, but in their absence there was an interesting and reflective discussion. The main focus of the meeting was the failure to consult effectively on the local plans. Judith Elderkin - Salford primary school head teacher and past President of the National Union of Teachers - set the local difficulties in the context of her personal experience and of national developments. Local parents at the meeting agreed to take up their concerns about the Levenshulme proposals in coming weeks.

PEACE GARDEN AT CHAPEL STREET/GORDON AVENUE
Work is continuing to develop the case for the Peace Garden, and as one of the next steps you are reminded to submit ideas for your design.

FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 008 – 25/6/07

1. CITY COUNCIL MEETING WEDNESDAY 11TH JULY, 10.00AM
A question will be put to the Council Leader by Councillor Keith Whitmore at the next full Council meeting on 11th July about his response to our petition, and about progress since it was handed in on 18th May. We have the right to attend the Council meeting in the public gallery. This is advance notice of the date and time. It would be good for some of us to be there. More information will follow. But if you could be free during that morning please reserve the time.

2. COMMUNITY GARDEN
All local residents are invited to submit design ideas for a garden on the Community Centre site. Post your ideas to Friends of Levenshulme, c/o 12 Gloucester Avenue, Levenshulme M19 3WT by Thursday 12th July 2007.
An event on site will then be organised where we can all get together and look at the ideas. Full details, including dimensions of the site, are on the website at - http://levenshulme.wetpaint.com/page/Community+Garden
3. CHILDRENS SERVICES IN LEVENSHULME
'Childrens Services in Levenshulme – are the plans for Broom Avenue Chidrens Centre the answer?' is the subject of a meeting on Wednesday
4 July at 7.30pm.
Venue - Madina Mosque, Barlow Road.
Speakers include Judith Elderkin, former President of the National Union of Teachers, representatives of parents groups, and Surestart representatives from Manchester City Council (invited). All welcome.

4. SUPERMARKET SOLD
We are told by the estate agents Mason Owen that a sale has been agreed on the supermarket premises at 990 Stockport Road. There is no further information at this point.

5. TALK ON HISTORICAL LEVENSHULME THIS WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE
The Worsley & Carrill Grove Residents' Association invite all local residents to a talk by local historian Chris Makepeace, who will talk about transport through the 19th and early 20th centuries, with particular reference to Levenshulme.
Venue - Levenshulme Catholic Club, 58 Central Avenue.
Doors open 7.40 pm. All welcome at no charge. There is a bar at the venue.

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THIS SUNDAY, 10TH JUNE 11AM-5PM – SEE YOU AT THE MADINA MOSQUE?
The website homepage includes a poster advertising two events on one day at the mosque in Barlow Road, this Sunday.
• The mosque will be open for visitors from 11am-5pm. Please come along if you can, show your interest, and learn more about the mosque and our Muslim neighbours. Everyone is welcome. Even if you have only a little time, please come along.
• The meeting about plans for a possible 'Peace Garden' - a community garden on the site of the old community centre – will also be held on Sunday at the mosque, at 12 noon. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME. We are particularly keen that people who have already volunteered their interest might be able to come. Jamie Summers will update us on the latest information we have, and you will be able to contribute your own ideas.

SUPERMARKET NEWS
Stuart Calton reports that an offer has been made on the Kwiksave site. The estate agents say that the sale is due to be completed in the next few days, and that the buyer may not have any clear plan for future development or use of the site at this stage - it is also suggested that some time is likely to elapse before any planning application is made. In the meantime we await the result of the Co-operative Group's assessment of Levenshulme as a potential location for a food and grocery store. Tracy Jesty is about to convene the FoL interest group on shopping, land & development issues (around 10 people have volunteered). The group will take the lead on our behalf in monitoring the position as it unfolds and shaping proposals for what is needed.
5/6/07

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1. STOP PRESS - BBC RADIO MANCHESTER IN LEVENSHULME, TOMORROW (MONDAY 4th JUNE), 3.00PM Radio Manchester is reporting live from outside the Palace during the afternoon. It is a chance to promote our concerns and hopes for the future of Levenshulme. If you can, come along at 3.00pm, join in, and get your voice heard.
On a related issue Sarah Deakin, Chair of Carill & Worsley Groves Residents Association, has asked for the following message to be circulated - 'Just a note to thank you all for your support on the issue with the planning application for the former Palace nightclub. It went to committee on 31st May and Councillor John Commons also put in an objection. The committee decided that whilst the application should be given consent, the licensing hours will be restricted to midnight. I call that a result! So thanks to you all, and it just shows that we can make a difference to Levenshulme if we make the effort!'

2. GREEN BANK FIELDS MEETING, WEDNESDAY 6th JUNE There is an energetic residents' campaign about the future of Green Bank Fields in the face of a proposal to enclose most of the space for football pitches. Details of the planning application are on the FoL website. Time to challenge this is very short – a crucial campaign meeting is to be held this Wednesday, at Levenshulme Library at 6.00pm. It's the chance to hear more, and at c.7.00pm to give time to planning the next stage in the campaign.

3. PLANNING A COMMUNITY GARDEN, AND MOSQUE OPEN EVENT Jamie Summers has provisionally arranged a meeting to launch the community garden proposal (for the ex-Community Centre site) at the Barlow Road mosque at 3.00pm on Sunday 10th June. The venue is deliberate. We want to encourage the active involvement of members of the local Muslim community, and to include an Islamic theme in the layout of the garden. But the Imam also wants to encourage non-Muslim local people to see the mosque and learn about our local Muslim community. He is proposing an open event for women, men and children at teatime on Sunday, to follow the community garden meeting.
Jamie will be coordinating publicity, including designing a poster and a leaflet to distribute midweek. The day and time need to be confirmed
- we will email as soon as they are. But please put Sunday teatime, 10th June, in your diary. We really must aim to get a good attendance.
This is a wonderful opportunity to show our commitment to reaching out to new people.

4. SURE START
There is a growing sense of anger about lack of consultation and the serious underlying problems with the proposed Sure Start scheme for young children at Broom Avenue Children's Centre, Levenshulme.
Local parents are lobbying and campaigning, and there is a plan to hold a public meeting in July, details of which will follow. If you want to know more - or if you can help – please email us.

5. MAILING LIST
We are keen to establish a postal mailing list in the coming months.
Currently our updates only go out via email. We know that many people do not have email access. If you know people who would like to join a postal mailing list, please send name and address contact details to us.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT OF THE FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME CAMPAIGN.

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1. COMPLETING THE PETITION, MEETING THE COUNCIL LEADER, AND DEMONSTRATING IN ALBERT SQUARE.
- In late morning on Friday the petition had 2,948 signatures, but by early afternoon it reached 3,141. The Imam at the mosque in Barlow Road, Zafar Akbar, had allowed us to petition in the mosque before and after Friday worship, and mentioned us during prayers. The resulting extra signatures made the difference in meeting our target of 3,000+.
- Nine local people joined Gerald Kaufman MP to meet Council Leader Sir Richard Leese in his office at 5pm the same afternoon. The meeting lasted 40 minutes, and was accompanied by the sound of the demonstration outside the Town Hall. The nine people included two school students (from Cedar Mount School) and two local traders.
During the meeting Richard Leese agreed to give a formal response to the petition by mid to late June - this is the same timetable as the publication of the South Manchester Strategic Regeneration Framework - and he also agreed to a future meeting with local people in Levenshulme. After the meeting, speaking in Albert Square, Councillor Keith Whitmore gave an undertaking that the Liberal Democrats will put a question at the next full City Council meeting (11th July) about follow up action on the petition demands. Both our MP and councillors pledged strong support for our campaigning.
- The demonstration from 4.30-6.00pm attracted up to 150 people, in beautiful sunny weather. Our long banner 'Who's Looking After Levenshulme?' was highly visible in the centre of the Square - our second banner was secured to railings in front of the Town Hall. We were a good mix of Levenshulme people, with a significant number of children. And we were noisy - in fact we could be heard inside the Council Leader's office during the presentation of the petition.
Channel M covered the story, and we hope to see coverage in the local weekly press.

2. MOVING TO THE NEXT STAGE • Interest group on shopping, land use, and planning/development.
Tracy Jesty will convene the first meeting of this interest group in June. One job will be to plan for the Co-operative Group statement about whether or not it plans to develop a store in Levenshulme - if the answer is 'no' we will definitely need to go public with the debate about local food shopping. • Getting organised
David Mottram is bringing together the small group to look at our future organisational structure, including the future relationship of Levenshulme Community Association to Friends of Levenshulme.
Proposals are likely to be put to a meeting of the Levenshulme Community Forum in September. • City Council meeting, Wednesday 11th July 2007 If the Liberal Democrats ask a question about follow-up action after the petition, we need to be there. More details will follow.

3. CARDBOARD COMMUNITY CENTRE DAY. A NEW COMMUNITY GARDEN?
On Bank Holiday Monday 7th May the 'cardboard community centre' - decorated with paintings by local children - was unveiled on the old site of the Community Centre at Chapel Street. It attracted good media coverage, including picture stories in the Manchester Evening News and on the BBC Manchester website, and reports on Channel M. We also started a community garden, with over 120 plants and lots of adults and children taking part in the digging and planting. Andrew and Jake, both school students at Cedar Mount School, were so enthusiastic that they ended up taking the message about local community action to the Council Leader last Friday… Picking up on this enthusiasm, a number of us are going to work to get funding to develop the site further as a community garden. Are you interested? If you want to be involved - or if you think you have relevant skills to help - get in touch because we want to invite you to an initial planning meeting in 2-3 weeks time. In addition, there is one special sort of help we need. Do you know someone who has experience in planning community landscaping and planting schemes, and who might be able to advise us on costing the proposal?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT OF THE FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME CAMPAIGN.

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Our Bank Holiday Party was a great success. Over 100 people attended, bringing with them over 120 plants and flowers, as well as food and drinks. Our homemade community centre was beautifully decorated by the kids, and the site now looks less like a bombsite and more like a mini garden centre. Thanks to everyone for their amazing generosity and inventiveness. Some photos have been posted on our website, please have a look at:
The campaign continues: HELP US HAND IN OUR PETITION.
meet from 4:30pm on Friday May 18th, outside the main entrance of Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square.
More of you have signed our petition than voted in last week's council elections in Levenshulme. This petition is our real voice. Now we all need to turn up in person to deliver it to Richard Leese, the leader of the council. We've booked an appointment with Sir Richard's office, Gorton MP Gerald Kaufman is joining a group of us to formally deliver the petition to the leader of the council.
As our experience with the Community Centre shows, we need to unite and speak up for our facilities, or we could lose them.
A petition handed in behind closed doors is one thing, a petition delivered by a hundred people is another. We understand that the timing may be awkward, but it's really important that as many people as possible come to make themselves heard outside the Town Hall. Bring your kids, bring banners and placards, bring whistles and bells! Lets put the campaign under the council's nose.

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You are invited to the Friends of Levenshulme Bank Holiday Party. Monday the 7th of May, on the site of the demolished community centre on Gordon Avenue / Chapel Street. It was September of last year when the council voted to demolish the community centre. In that same meeting they resolved to "actively explore replacement with a new building". Nearly nine months and one Regeneration Consultation Meeting later and we're still looking at a disused site, and still waiting for news about a replacement building. We obviously need to remind the council that the community is still here, even if our community centre isn't. Please join us on the 7th of May from 12:30 to tidy up the rubbish and plant flowers and seedlings on the site. At about 2pm the party will start. Bring food, plants and flowers. We'll supply the music, painting activities for the kids and unveil our home-made cardboard community centre.
Tell your neighbours, friends and family.
ALL WELCOME

Friends of Levenshulme Update 002

• LATEST MEDIA COVERAGE OF FOL CAMPAIGN – MEN Metro News, 23/3/07 – report on page 9.
South Manchester Reporter, 22/3/07 – report on page 4. • LETTER TO SIR RICHARD LEESE FROM FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME The following letter is printed in the latest edition of The South Manchester Reporter -
Dear Sir Richard Leese
As Levenshulme residents we were heartened to read your letter in the South Manchester Reporter, in which you say that the area is 'very much included' in the Council's regeneration plans.
It is encouraging to read that the City Council recognises that community facilities in the area should be improved, and that you are 'working very hard' towards achieving this aim. We must say that this did not come across at the consultation meeting about South Manchester regeneration on Wednesday (14 March). We were presented with a list of issues relevant to the future of South Manchester as a whole, but leaving Levenshulme interests marginalised. Fundamental local questions were left unanswered.
The threat to a balanced and sustainable retail economy in Levenshulme causes great concern to those of us who live and work here. Asked at the regeneration meeting about the buyer of the former Somerfield supermarket building and land, Andy Wilson of the City Council stated that he was unable to divulge private business information. But Levenshulme is in desperate need of a local supermarket and other shops that meet the day to day needs of local residents. We also need the community facilities crucial to our sense of community. What is the City Council's policy on planning interventions to protect the interests of local people?
We are concerned that commercial interests will take precedence over the expressed needs of local people. There is a lack of accountability
- one that you could address.
We look forward to an open disclosure of the City Council's real vision and positive plans for the regeneration of Levenshulme, one that actively responds to local people's priorities.
Levenshulme has great people, but poor facilities and public spaces.
It's time for action, not words.

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FRIENDS OF LEVENSHULME UPDATE 1 - 18 March 2007
REGENERATION MEETING 14 MARCH
Thanks to everyone for attending the regeneration meeting at St.
Peter's Church last Wednesday. The turnout was magnificent - certainly 350 people in attendance. Photographs of the event are posted on our website - http://levenshulme.wetpaint.com - and it will be covered in the South Manchester Reporter this coming week.
Some of you will have seen the coverage of the Friends of Levenshulme campaign in the last two editions of the paper.
MEETING 17 MARCH AT LEVENSHULME LIBRARY
The meeting on Saturday was attended by 21 people.
The next meeting will be Saturday 14th April - venue to be confirmed/details to follow. That meeting will discuss the future organisation of the campaign, and ways of involving people in working on different issues/acitivities.
PETITION
In 12 days we have gathered 1300 signatures. Many local shops on Stockport Road have the petition for people to sign. Please pass the word around about the petition - we are aiming for 3000+ signatures - to be delivered to the Leader of the Council in early or mid May. Date to be confirmed.
GETTING INVOLVED
Do contact us if you want to get involved in the campaign. We are keen to hear from Residents Associations and individuals. We will be petitioning on Stockport Road from 11.00 'til 1.00 on the next two Saturdays, 24th and 31st March.
Thank you for your support.


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Myself (James Alden, Manchester Green Party) and Lance Crookes (Legendary Green Party campaigner / activist) will be attending a planning workshop run by the Sustainable Neighbourhoods Pool MERCI on the 4th of July, 7pm at the Friends Meeting House Room 3. I have an interest in protecting greenspace and was instumnetal in getting the 6000 signature petition for Mari Louise Gardens in Didsbury. Myself and Lance would like to use Greenbank Park as a live case study for the planning workshop so if anyone would like to join us, or might have some usful info , let us know, sorry for the short notice, James.
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