Manchester city centre is growing and more rectangular glass sky scrappers are coming, and that is all good,
but the likes of clayton, Gorton, longsight, blackley, crumpsall etc are still desperate for regeneration, the City may be getting better but the actual places Mancunians are living in are not seeing as much of that.
Also we are Greater Mamchester and bar mini improvements a lot of work needs doing to renew the other towns, and link them to the Citys prosperity.
If we really want to be a powerhouse like London or any major City we need to expand our business investments and share them throughout the boroughs creating a wider and more properous County with a fast, modern transport system conecting Bolton, Stockport, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale Salford run under one banner not franchises, and build an underground where the metrolink cannot reach.
Totally agree. Whilst I'm in awe of the scale of developments taking off in Manchester (the skyscrapers, the new central villages etc etc) there is still a lot of neglect in the 'outer doughnut' (and indeed further out field). New Cross and Ancoats; Angel Meadows; the new St. Johns village on the old Granada site (incredible); the area around Chester Road (indeed linking the City Centre to the Quays) all rapidly expanding the central area and creating new places to live (erm, if you're minted) but other places (like the ones you mention) are not seeing any of that, and in some instances are going backwards. Look at somewhere like Withington at the moment (cheek by jowl with Didsbury)...it looks knackered and unloved (save for a few good businesses) at the moment.
The transport links are also a few miles away from world class. I know Sir Howard Bernstein referenced the need for an underground within 10 years, but I've no idea how and where this will be implemented...but the sheer number of residents moving to the city will only increase the gridlock and set the city back when it should be flying.