Social Value Ideas for Manchester City Council
We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for Manchester City Council in North West across 47 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.
HMO threshold by criteria
The council is not setting a numeric HMO threshold in the draft plan. Instead, officers said decisions will be based on adverse impacts and the balance of housing types, partly because a previous thre…
“The question I have is how will the council determine when an area has reached an acceptable concentration of HMOs? Because there's no numerical thres…”
PBSA affordability policy
The new Local Plan introduces an affordable housing policy for purpose-built student accommodation, which officers described as innovative because few authorities have adopted one. The council wants t…
“In the new local plan, we do have an affordable policy now for purpose-built student accommodation, so we didn't before. The core strategy that was ag…”
DFG means test & cap
Recommendation to reintroduce means testing for Disabled Facilities Grants and to introduce a 30,000 cap, aligning with other authorities. Impacts include 3% of applicants affected by means testing an…
“The recommendations are to reintroduce means testing and to introduce a 30,000 pound cap in line with other national councils | 3% of applicants will …”
Selective Licensing expansion
Policy proposal to expand selective licensing across Manchester with 5–7 new licensing areas. A report will be brought to the December executive, with implementation expected from sometime next year.
“we are planning to bring a report to December executive to recommend five, six, maybe seven new licensing areas, from sometime next year”
Clean and Green investment programme
The council set out a significant phased investment programme over the next three years to improve cleaner neighbourhoods, parks, highways, enforcement and neighbourhood services. This includes additi…
“Thank you, Chair. So I'm pleased to introduce this report on the Clean and Green Investment Program. It sets out how the council is investing in clean…”
Local Plan consultation launch
The council is taking the draft Manchester Local Plan to Regulation 19 consultation later in the summer, after a long preparation process. Members and officers stressed that the consultation is about …
“Thank you, Chair. Yeah, really good to be here this morning to discuss the local plan ahead of the Regulation 19 consultation that will commence later…”
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