Thursday 30 March 2017

Save Manchester's Greenbelt Rally 1st April 2017

Save Manchester's Greenbelt is holding a rally next Saturday 1st April in Albert Square Manchester to protest at plans by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to build thousands of houses on Greenbelt across Greater Manchester.

Save Manchester's Greenbelt is an umbrella association representing of the "Save the Greenbelt" groups across Greater Manchester.  The organisation supports affordable housing on Brownfield sites and seeks to protect all Greenbelt for future generations.


A highly successful march organised by "Save Stockport's Greenbelt" and comprising of approximately 1000 High Lane, Woodford and Cheadle residents met in front of Stockport Town Hall in December 2016, during the first consultation, showed Stockport council the strength of 
feeling amongst residents. 

The second consultation on a revised plan will begin in August.  Councillors and officers need to know that only very significant changes to the proposal will be acceptable. 

The rally on Saturday will be supported by residents from all ten boroughs comprising the GMCA.  It will be supported by the Council for the Protection of Rural England who will provide a speaker on the day.

The rally will take place at 1-00pm in Albert Square outside the Manchester Town Hall.  If you care about your Greenbelt spare a couple of hours of your time to show how much you care.

N.B. Marple Civic Society made a detailed response to the first consultation - see HERE

Sunday 26 March 2017

AGM and speaker meeting Tuesday 28th March 2017

                     AGM and Speaker Meeting
             Tuesday 28th March at 3.00pm - 5.00pm
                              in Marple Library
                                  Refreshment served from 2.40pm


We hope you will join us for the society's 55th AGM and speaker meeting on Tuesday 28th March 2017 in Marple Library.

Light refreshment will be served from 2.40pm prior to the Business Meeting starting at 3.00pm. 

Ben Murray - Civic Voice
Business will be followed by a talk from Ben Murray, Communications, Events and Marketing Manager at Civic Voice, the national charity for the civic movement in England . In the two years since Ben started with Civic Voice he has made tremendous headway in organising parliamentary events and building solid, positive relationships with Members of Parliament. We'll be finding out more about Ben's role, why he joined Civic Voice and what motivated him to work for the civic movement at the young age of 23. 

We hope to set up a young people's section of the civic society and are looking to Ben for advice and inspiration on how we might do that.

We hope to see you at the meeting - family, friends and neighbours are welcome too (but only members can vote for the election and re election of officers and committee members).

 See HERE for details of further speaker meetings in 2017

Sunday 12 March 2017

Marple Area Committee Meeting 8th March 2017

A report on the Marple Area Committee Meeting that took place on 8th March 2017 can be viewed HERE

The meeting was the first Marple Area Committee meeting to be webcast.  The webcast is indexed in line with the agenda to facilitate viewing.  It is anticipated that future Marple Area Committee meetings will be webcast.  Following transmission webcasts are archived in the council's webcast library for viewing at a later date.
Follow the link below to view live webcasts and click on "library" to viewe archived webcasts.

http://democracy.stockport.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=138&MId=9012&Ver=4 

Future Marple Area Committee Meeting Dates:

12th April 2017
7th June 2017
12th July 2017
9th August 2017
27th September 2017
8th November 2017
13th December 2017
31st January 2018
7th March 2018
18th April 2018

Wednesday 8 March 2017

Notice of AGM and Speaker Meeting 2017

                        AGM and Speaker Meeting
             Tuesday 28th March at 3.00pm - 5.00pm
                              in Marple Library
                                  Refreshment served from 2.40pm

We hope you will join us for the society's 55th AGM and speaker meeting on Tuesday 28th March 2017 in Marple Library.

Members wishing to stand for committee or nominate another member can obtain nomination forms by contacting Gillian Postill: 
phone: 0161 427 1379  
or email: mail@marplecivicsociety.org.uk

Light refreshment will be served from 2.40pm prior to the Business Meeting starting at 3.00pm. 

Ben Murray - Civic Voice
We'll then welcome our Speaker Ben Murray, Communications, Events and Marketing Manager at Civic Voice, the national charity for the civic movement in England. In the two years since Ben started with Civic Voice he has made tremendous headway in organising parliamentary events and building solid, positive relationships with Members of Parliament. We'll be finding out more about Ben's role, why he joined Civic Voice and what motivated him to work for the civic movement at the young age of 23.

We hope to see you at the meeting - family, friends and neighbours are welcome too (but only members can vote for the election and re election of officers and committee members).

 See HERE for details of further speaker meetings in 2017

Thursday 2 March 2017

Committee Meeting Minutes 28th February 2017

Committee meeting minutes for 28th February 2017 can bw viewed HERE