Manchester Blog

Heaton Park is hosting a real 80’s music celebration tomorrow (14th August 2010). Rick Astley will be performing in a concert with other stars from the 80’s including: – ABC – Belinda Carlisle – Go West – Mica Paris – Tony Hadley Currently the weather here at Heaton Park is looking particularly unpromising. Still we’ve [...]

Well, it’s a done deal. Heaton Park will have a new sports development. Of the 3 councillors I contacted 1 replied immediately and one after they’d attended the planning meeting. As to what they said… Both councillors made the point that the development was part of the Restoration Masterplan for Heaton Park agreed by English [...]

Heaton park is still under threat as the Manchester Town Hall planning committee meet to rubber stamp the recommendation by the town planners to allow the go ahead of a sports complex at Heaton Park. This is the continuing struggle of the council in what seems to be a concerted effort to use the green [...]

Speed cameras for a road that sees very little traffic seems very strange. For some months we’ve been driving up Victoria avenue, from the Heaton Park end, and seen the huge poles that look like fat lamp posts. Then overnight they were transformed into camera gantries with an arm extended over the road way with [...]

Find out how to object to further Heaton Park development of sports facilities

Well we had a beautiful day on Thursday, 4th June. Friday was great until about 4pm and then the heavens opened.   Today? Well Saturday is looking gloomier.   Basically, today’s weather has been a lot more of the same. It’s chucking it down. I can see a couple of very bedraggled marshals standing at [...]

I live right outside Heaton Park where the Oasis concerts are being held. Looking around the area my advice would be to use the park and ride facilities at Prestwich and elsewhere or to come by tram, arriving either at Heaton Park or Bowker Vale tram stations. Otherwise it will be a complete nighmare for [...]

Heaton Park is still (probably) Europe’s biggest municipal park. I live near the main gates and obviously enjoy walks in the park with my children. Over the last few years there has been a lot of improvements carried out in the park. However, there also seems to be an attempt by the council to eat [...]

Sunday was a beautiful day for the historic re-opening of the horse drawn tram service in Heaton Park. There were large gatherings of tram fans and us, the general public, come to watch and take part in its first services. I talked to Bob Hill (one of the restorers at the Tram Museum, his picture [...]