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Adam Towers @AdamMT1996
Joined January 2023
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A transformative scheme to be working on - well worth a look 👀 A new market sq. for Ashton 🍎 Greening & public realm improvements 🌲 Highway improvements for those walking, wheeling & cycling 🚲 Beautifully restored heritage shop fronts 🛍️ participate.wigan.gov.uk/en-…

Folder: #OurFutureAshton | Wigan Council

The Council has secured £6.6 million from the governments Local Regeneration Fund (LRF) to deliver a major programme of investment that will enhance the offer and environment within the town centre,...

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Wigan Council
@WiganCouncil
25 Feb 2025
📰NEWS: Would you like to part of Ashton’s exciting future? Full story 👇 wigan.gov.uk/News/Articles/2…
Aerial photo of Ashton town centre

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Wishing a fond farewell to Telford & the LG Challenge! A lot of fun & lot of learning these past 6 months. Huge thanks to the entire #LGChallenge team & all of our host councils 👏
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Another win for #TeamDynamic in 2024’s #LGChallenge. Valuable opportunity to see how Waltham Forest has been delivering adult social care in tough fiscal conditions, & learn how a London Borough works first hand - youtu.be/zEZggRthnLM?si=jRvG…

LG Challenge: Challenge 4

In April 2024 the LG Challenge 2024 cohort headed to the London to ...

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Busy two days in Wiltshire for the third #LGChallenge 2024! Another win for #TeamDynamic 🏆 teams learned about the household support fund & were tasked w/ mitigating the impacts should it not be extended further. Tough challenge & a strong submission from the team! 🥳 #LocalGov
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Time again for the cycle three sisters 🚲 Not to be missed - a chance to ride the full three sisters race circuit with e-bikes, balance bikes, adapted cycles & more. All FREE & all welcome 🤗 7 May 📆 23 July 📆 #Ashton #Wigan #ActiveTravel #BeeNetwork
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Delighted to be in Halifax - leading #TeamVictorious & learning lots about Calderdale’s vibrant visitor economy & cultural offerings! #Culturedale
Calderdale Council@Calderdale
20 Feb 2024
We're pleased to welcome the latest @LGChallenge contestants to Halifax this morning as we reveal the Challenge 2 topic! Good luck everyone, and enjoy your time in Calderdale 💚
The LGA Challenge cohort at Halifax Town Hall this morning, ahead of the topic being revealed.

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It’s already time for the second LG Challenge, this time heading to Halifax! You can catch up on the first challenge - tackling waste in Newcastle - below: local.gov.uk/our-support/cou…

Challenge 1: Newcastle City Council

It’s January 2024, and the return of the LGA’s officer leadership development programme and annual competition, the Local Government Challenge. For challenge one, our cohort of 10 officers, partici...

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If you’re passionate about #ActiveTravel 🚲 , place making, & want to play a part in building Greater Manchester’s #BeeNetwork - now’s your chance! Application deadline 03/03 📆 greater.jobs/search-and-appl…
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Great policy paper on street scars - & potential legislative / regulatory change to make a change
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4 Feb 2024
Replying to @lb_southwark @HighwaysSurrey @transportgovuk @activetraveleng
.. apologies for a long thread! You can read more on why and how this matters to people and more detail in our new #StreetScar report here: createstreets.com/wp-content…
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Excited to share I’ll be taking part in @LGChallenge 2024! The challenge tasks 10 contestants w/ tackling real-life challenges in councils across the country. Over the course of 6 months, looking forward to visiting new authorities & building new relationships!
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Chorlton LCWIP improvements looking fab - a real facelift for the high street & game changer for those walking, wheeling & cycling! Frustrating to see motorists blocking the cycleway, parking on double yellows & pavement parking. Plans to improve enforcement @mathewhbenham?
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Great afternoon with @ActiveCitiesUoS learning more about social infrastructure & where existing LCWIP fails to best address the needs of the most vulnerable. Research paper to be published soon!
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Strong line up of local gov. leaders at this year’s #SolaceSummit23!
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Within 10mins walk of 242 GM stations, 494,000 homes could be developed - £15bn of potential revenue.. & already possible under existing legislation
Centre for Cities
@CentreforCities
6 Oct 2023
"It is perfectly democratically justifiable for an elected government to impose housing on a local area." At CfC's #CPC23 housing fringe, @ConHome's Henry Hill (@HCH_Hill), asks Housing Minister Rachel Maclean to sign a GPDO allowing development in 1km around train stations 🚉🏘
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Still digesting the avalanche of stats., research, & modelling from @resfoundation’s fantastic work on GM. Squaring the circle of achieving higher prosperity across the region whilst ensuring gains don’t accrue to a select few
Resolution Foundation
@resfoundation
19 Sep 2023
And that's a wrap. You can watch back our event - Making Greater Manchester great again - with @henryoverman @bevcraig @JenWilliams_FT @TorstenBell & Will Garton @luhc here resolutionfoundation.org/eve…
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Given discourse around would-be GM secessionists - worth a look at this great work from @Paul_Swinney. Consistent correlations of high incomes & high commuting to big cities. MCC acting as a parasite on surrounding towns simply not borne out by the data centreforcities.org/blog/why….
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Great deep dive on the prohibitive costs of achieving high urban density in the U.K. Breakdown of tram & underground costs especially interesting in light of GM development
Adam Tooze
@adam_tooze
26 Aug 2023
Building subways in the US and UK is VERY expensive. Are the London ones particularly deep? samdumitriu.com/p/britains-i…
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Chance to learn more & shape proposals for a safer, greener, more active Leigh - and best of all, discounted coffee! ☕️
Wigan Council
@WiganCouncil
17 Jul 2023
Our team are looking at plans to reduce traffic at peak school times in the area west of Leigh town centre. Come along and have a chat with the team: 📆 Thurs 20 July ⏰ 1pm-4pm 📍 Coffee Stop, 23 Railway Road, Leigh Find out more👉 ow.ly/Ba9l50PcGZc @OfficialTfGM
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Two fantastic off-road schemes in Wigan, both out to consultation. Plugging gaps not only in the Bee Network, but NCN55 too!
Wigan Council
@WiganCouncil
10 Jul 2023
📣Two consultations on plans to make walking and cycling even easier in our borough have begun Have your say on proposals for the Whelley Loop Line and Standish walking and cycling network 🚲🚶‍♀️ 👉 Whelley Loop- ow.ly/rVIp50P7nLY 👉 Standish- ow.ly/BL4150P7nLX
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Sober & realistic assessment from @CentreforCities on the recent pledges to streamline grant funding for Local Gov. Consolidating - albeit w/out timeline nor details - a capital grant system which is arguably insufficient to address regional inequalities centreforcities.org/blog/the…

The Government’s funding simplification plan steps in the right direction but doesn’t address key...

While setting worthy ambitions and demonstrating Government has listened to objections to the current grants system, this week’s announcement from DHLUC still leaves us guessing as to how the...

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