MMU Ryebank Fields: CCLT Feedback Report
MMU Ryebank Fields Developer Selection Process: CCLT Feedback Report July 2022 We promised you an update on our involvement in the MMU selection process once a decision had been made on a preferred developer for Ryebank Fields. MMU has recently announced its decision to appoint Step Places and Southway. You can read more about their […]
MMU select preferred developers
MMU have announced today that their preferred developers for Ryebank Fields are Step Places/Southway Housing Trust. Chorlton Community Land Trust’s position on Ryebank Fields is that should development go ahead, we wish to engage proactively with MMU and their selected development partners to ensure an exemplar development which, amongst other features, maximises affordable housing and has high […]
An update on Ryebank Fields
In our last communication on Ryebank Fields we said that we would give members a more detailed update once the current stage of MMU’s developer selection process had been completed. This stage of the process is taking longer than originally expected and is still ongoing. In the meantime, we can report that a group of board members […]
CCLT Engagement With MMU
CCLT’s Recent Engagement With MMU and Our Commitment To Community Involvement in the Ryebank Fields process Chorlton Community Land Trust’s position re Ryebank Field has always been that should development go ahead, the CLT wishes to engage proactively with MMU and their selected development partner to ensure an exemplar development, with the best possible features reflecting the aspirations of local residents. This should […]
Working group reports on Ryebank Fields
As promised in a previous post, we are pleased to share two documents intended largely to influence developers’ plans. They are: an updated Expectations and Aspirations document which replaces the one published last Autumn; and a new Environmental Protection and Enhancement report by a CLT working group which goes in to this area in more […]
Latest on Ryebank Fields
It’s been a few months since we last updated our members on our involvement in Ryebank Fields following Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) putting the land on the market in September last year. We reported then that the CLT was expecting to engage more intensively in early spring 2021, when MMU had shortlisted a final cohort […]
Setting out our expectations and aspirations for Ryebank Fields
The governors of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) have now decided to progress with the sale of the Ryebank Fields site and has begun to market the site to developers through agents Cushman & Wakefield. Should development go ahead, the CLT wishes to engage proactively with MMU and their selected development partner to achieve an exemplar […]
Ryebank Fields Update: Oct 2020
As stated previously the CLT Board decided not to put a paper to the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) governing body who discussed the Fields at their meeting at the end of March, 2020 so as not to stand in the way of those campaigning against any development. Despite groups making submissions asking the governors not […]
Ryebank Fields Update
Chorlton CLT has been invited, along with other community groups, to make written representations about Ryebank Fields to landowner MMU’s Board of Governors which meets in March. We have decided not to write in at this point. We don’t want our position to interpreted as simply being “pro development” and in opposition to groups who […]
Ryebank Fields: To Build or not to Build?
Ryebank Fields are a part of my life. For the last decade, I have run, picked blackberries, played with my son and walked my dog there. I have watched as the oaks have grown and the aspen grove has spread. Arriving today to find brambles cleared, a new steel gate, men in high vis jackets […]