2016
Greater Manchester Mayoral Selection
Labour selects Burnham as its candidate for the first Greater Manchester mayoral election.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Greater Manchester in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Labour selects Burnham as its candidate for the first Greater Manchester mayoral election.
Burnham begins regular public question sessions across Greater Manchester's boroughs.
Burnham wins the first directly elected Greater Manchester mayoral contest.
Burnham launches emergency accommodation for people sleeping rough across the city-region.
Burnham reports that more than nine hundred people have received accommodation and support.
Burnham expands winter accommodation, specialist support and provision across the city-region.
Burnham announces that recorded rough sleeping has fallen thirty-seven percent in one year.
Burnham supports hotel accommodation and continuing services for homeless people during the pandemic.
Burnham launches a strategy addressing evictions, housing standards and the causes of homelessness.
Burnham wins a second term as Mayor of Greater Manchester.
Burnham introduces capped adult single fares of two pounds across Greater Manchester.
Burnham secures wider financial and policy powers through a trailblazer devolution agreement.
Burnham launches the first franchised Bee Network bus services in western Greater Manchester.
Burnham pledges ten thousand new council homes by 2028 within a wider housing plan.
Burnham wins election to a third term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
Burnham completes the return of Greater Manchester's bus network to local public control.
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