The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has decided it will be dropping “Environment and Resource Efficiency” from its ESIF ERDF plans. Considering the authority will soon be taking over Greater Manchester planning and house building control after devolution it is clear they do not wish to be burdened with environmental guidelines. Greater Manchester has a rapidly expanding population driven by unsustainable foreign migration and high fertility rates, it will need to industrialise, suburbanise, redesignate and monetise vast areas of undeveloped land as Oldham Council are doing building industrial units and houses on green land at Foxdenton.
Below are GM interim Mayor Tony Lloyds expenses for part of 2015 note the hipocritic irony of flying to the Vatican and back using public finances to sign a climate change statement.