The city centre is a lot better looking than it used be thanks to property developers like Renaker, Allied London, Bruntwood, Salboy, Capital & Centric, English Cities Fund, Abu Dhabi United Group, Urban Splash, FEC, Ask Real Estate, etc.
There are plenty of areas in the city centre that are looked after and are well maintained by property developers. Spinningfields, Deansgate Square, NOMA, Mayfield(Park), First Street, New Bailey, Middlewood Locks, Circle Square, etc.
The retail core and civic quarter around the town hall is looked after and well maintained as a rule. https://cityco.com/keeping-street-clean/ Businesses pay extra to have the area cleaned on a regular basis.
The problems, which are many, are outside the retail core and the civic quarter, up to the inner ring road. There is graffiti, tagging, litter, rubbish, bins are over flowing, etc, everywhere. The whole area isn’t maintained at all by the city council and Biffa.(who are f*cking useless) The NQ is an absolute shithole. Go around the inner ring road, venturing into Salford, and the issues are the same everywhere.
I’ve walked the city centre for 25 years after the IRA bomb taking pictures and documenting the positive changes that have taken place since then. It’s great to see all the new residential towers, residential apartments, office blocks, new landscaping, squares, planting, parks, and whole new areas of the city centre taking shape and emerging.
But for whatever reason the city council, Pat Karney(in-charge of the city centre), Richard Leese(retired) , and Bev Craig(council leader), etc, all seem to be oblivious to the poor and shoddy appearance of the city centre outside the retail core and civic quarter. Either that or they they can’t be arsed doing anything about it.
Last Sunday I got the 192 bus into town. The whole route from Levenshulme to Ardwick was awash with litter. Especially Longsight. It was disgusting, embarrassing, shameful. People don’t give a f*ck. But it doesn’t help when the city council doesn’t clean the streets, meaning rubbish and litter keeps piling up on the streets.
I went to Naples to see City play Napoli. As you all know Naples has a bad reputation for litter. And there was litter. But nothing on the scale I saw on Sunday in Manchester.
There are plenty of areas in the city centre that are looked after and are well maintained by property developers. Spinningfields, Deansgate Square, NOMA, Mayfield(Park), First Street, New Bailey, Middlewood Locks, Circle Square, etc.
The retail core and civic quarter around the town hall is looked after and well maintained as a rule. https://cityco.com/keeping-street-clean/ Businesses pay extra to have the area cleaned on a regular basis.
The problems, which are many, are outside the retail core and the civic quarter, up to the inner ring road. There is graffiti, tagging, litter, rubbish, bins are over flowing, etc, everywhere. The whole area isn’t maintained at all by the city council and Biffa.(who are f*cking useless) The NQ is an absolute shithole. Go around the inner ring road, venturing into Salford, and the issues are the same everywhere.
I’ve walked the city centre for 25 years after the IRA bomb taking pictures and documenting the positive changes that have taken place since then. It’s great to see all the new residential towers, residential apartments, office blocks, new landscaping, squares, planting, parks, and whole new areas of the city centre taking shape and emerging.
But for whatever reason the city council, Pat Karney(in-charge of the city centre), Richard Leese(retired) , and Bev Craig(council leader), etc, all seem to be oblivious to the poor and shoddy appearance of the city centre outside the retail core and civic quarter. Either that or they they can’t be arsed doing anything about it.
Last Sunday I got the 192 bus into town. The whole route from Levenshulme to Ardwick was awash with litter. Especially Longsight. It was disgusting, embarrassing, shameful. People don’t give a f*ck. But it doesn’t help when the city council doesn’t clean the streets, meaning rubbish and litter keeps piling up on the streets.
I went to Naples to see City play Napoli. As you all know Naples has a bad reputation for litter. And there was litter. But nothing on the scale I saw on Sunday in Manchester.
