{"id":2491,"date":"2018-10-05T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2018\/10\/05\/northern-quarter-residents-call-better-protection-historical-buildings-wake-collapses\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:22:28","slug":"northern-quarter-residents-call-better-protection-historical-buildings-wake-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/northern-quarter-residents-call-better-protection-historical-buildings-wake-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Quarter residents call for better protection of historical buildings in wake of collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in the Northern Quarter have taken to Twitter to say they feel \u201cabandoned\u201d and \u201cignored\u201d by the council as historic buildings in the area continue to crumble.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as an increasing&nbsp;number of historic buildings face demolition instead of restoration and plans for expensive high-rise apartment blocks are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Quota sat down with Joanne Cross who runs the residents\u2019 group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NQForum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Quarter Forum<\/a>&nbsp;to talk about the situation. She believes rents have become too high in the area forcing people to move out, leaving buildings empty and able to fall into disrepair.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image media-wysiwyg-align-center file-default media-element\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"northern quarter, historic building, manchester, heritage\" data-delta=\"1\" data-fid=\"2914\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/04a15de0-3785-4c6a-80ce-0cd06cdb6621.jpg\" title=\"19th century Thomas St block in threat of collapse\" width=\"500\"><figcaption>Image by Sian McGuinness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:48px;\"><span style=\"color:#008080;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:26px;\">It&#8217;s truly shocking, what&#8217;s happened <\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:26px;\">here in the last few weeks<\/span><span style=\"font-size:48px;\"><span style=\"color:#008080;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>David Redford-Crowe is a member of the forum and has lived in the quarter for over 20 years. He said:&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s truly shocking, what\u2019s happened here in the last few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says&nbsp;he is&nbsp;tired of hearing&nbsp;\u201cManchester is not a heritage city\u201d and believes that the city\u2019s strengths lie in its ability to preserve what it has, but that \u201cpolitical will\u201d is the main problem facing it today.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Redford-Crowe believes that \u201cby coming under this big umbrella of [Northern Quarter Forum] we have much more of a voice, and a much louder voice, and people are starting to listen to us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Quarter Forum have supported a motion by Piccadilly Labour ward councillor Adele Douglas which aims to protect the area\u2019s heritage by looking after buildings that are important to the city&#8217;s history but aren&#8217;t necessarily listed. But the forum ultimately feel that the ward councillors are not the main decision makers and they still place the blame for the issues squarely on the city council&#8217;s shoulders for not using the powers available to them.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor&nbsp;Douglas said:&nbsp;\u201cManchester has some of the richest cultural heritage of any city in the UK and I am pleased to be able to use my role as a councillor&nbsp;to protect this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She&nbsp;said that she feels \u201cincredibly privileged to have been able to speak in council on a topic so important\u201d.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image media-wysiwyg-align-center file-default media-element\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"northern quarter, historic building, manchester, heritage\" data-delta=\"2\" data-fid=\"2915\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/5097469d-291c-4a12-8ba3-b72d4ab16e0d.jpg\" title=\"Salboy begins to demolish Back Turner St warehouse\" width=\"500\"><figcaption>Image by Sian McGuinness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Lib Dem opposition is backing the motion which they originally proposed but say it comes too late for many of the Northern Quarter\u2019s iconic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Lynch from the Piccadilly Lib Dem campaign group said:&nbsp;\u201cThe council hasn\u2019t used the powers available to it to preserve any historic building in the Northern Quarter.\u201d He claimed new high-rise flats make locals \u201cfeel excluded\u201d and do not provide affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Lib Dems would impose a minimum of 20% affordable housing in all new developments and would use the powers available to them to preserve historic buildings as well as applying for \u201cListed Status\u201d for buildings such as Affleck\u2019s Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The Council have declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in the Northern Quarter have taken to Twitter to say they feel \u201cabandoned\u201d and \u201cignored\u201d by the council as historic buildings in the area&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1260,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,1],"tags":[1951,1950,7,389,1952],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-architecture","tag-heritage","tag-manchester","tag-northern-quarter","tag-piccadilly-ward"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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