A major masterplan setting out where 165,000 homes will be built across Greater Manchester over the next 15 years is a step closer to completion. The Places for Everyone plan - the city-region's strategy for housing, jobs and the environment until 2037 - will undergo a public examination later this year.
Public hearings, which hundreds of campaigners have been invited to attend, will be held over five months starting from November to scrutinise the plan. The document has been repeatedly revised since its inception as the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) with the latest delay triggered by Stockport's decision to pull out at the eleventh hour in December 2020.
The renamed plan, which was submitted to the government earlier this year, now concerns the remaining nine boroughs – Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. More than 15,000 comments were received in the latest public consultation on the controversial masterplan which features fewer homes than before.
