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Central to the CyanLines community engagement programme is speaking to voices that are often under-represented in the design and planning of our places and spaces. Earlier in February, we ran our second consultation event  in partnership with GM Moving and new partners, PLACED Academy (a free-to-access built environment educational programme for young people aged 14 –…

Today CyanLines – the 100 mile plus network connecting and improving Greater Manchester’s parks, squares, rivers, canals and viaducts – announced property developer the Wain Group, Civic the team of system thinkers in the built environment and law firm Clarke Willmott have joined as partners and revealed new projects are underway with Greater Manchester Moving.…

On Saturday 22 November, we held our first joint canal towpath clean with the wonderful people at the Canal & River Trust. While the cold and damp managed to keep a few volunteers away, a small yet dedicated crew made their way from Piccadilly Basin through to Castlefield along the Rochdale Canal. Volunteer leader Mark…

Interim CyanLines project director Steve Connor, shares what happened yesterday on our first CyanLines Sunday walk “What to say? On Sunday we went for a walk. It was led jointly by Tom Bloxham and Jonathan Schofield who were both brilliant and spurred on by CyanLines co-founder Pete Swift and my CyanLines colleagues Lisa Ashurst and…

A major new green infrastructure project aiming to reshape Manchester over the next decade has been unveiled. CyanLines — a proposed network of over 100 miles linking parks, waterways, viaducts and public squares — was launched at Aviva Studios before an audience of more than 600 people. The initiative promises to connect the city’s best-known…