Miles Platting Community and Age-friendly Network (MPCAN)

We want to make Miles Platting and the surrounding area an even better place to live, age, and bring up children.

The network formed after residents were experiencing anxiety about a regeneration programme that went wrong following the 2008 financial crash. Miles Platting Savers brought local groups, projects, and residents into dialogue, to talk about working together and address the asset stripping that had torn their community apart…. And MPCAN was born! Since then, we have created a shared vision for our area and successfully advocated for a range of interventions and developments. Most recently, MPCAN has been awarded £40,000 to develop a wildlife corridor through the neighbourhood, where air pollution exceeds the World Health Organisation’s guideline limit. The project will protect and improve green space, increase biodiversity, and intensify carbon capture on the edge of Manchester City Centre.

Our achievements so far include:

• Developed a positive vision for Miles Platting that can make our neighbourhood a great place for people of all ages.
• Created an age-friendly action plan focused on better social and community facilities and activities; better transport connections; age-friendly public spaces; and health and wellbeing.
• Worked with councillors to register Shetland Road Green as an “Asset of Community Value”.
• Identified plots of land which remain in public ownership and are not part of the PFI.
• Established a partnership to take our vision forward which draws together Manchester City Council, Jigsaw Homes and local residents and community groups, old and new.

For more information and news please visit www.mpcan.org.uk.