Crisis talks over region’s ‘spatial framework’ masterplan continue

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direct to your inboxTalks over the uncertain future of the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) will continue, despite Stockport councillors voting against the proposals.Opposition groups argued that the long-delayed masterplan for jobs and housing favoured the needs of developers over residents, and would lead to unnecessary green belt development.Labour had hoped that by removing or scaling down schemes planned up to 2037, that it could appease Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, and the

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Claims by Salford Tories that they were instrumental in the council deferring approval of the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework have been branded ‘bizarre’ by the city’s mayor.Opposition councillors had asked for the controversial housing and jobs masterplan to be called in for further scrutiny at a meeting today, only for it to be cancelled.Thousands of homes are earmarked across the borough including within the borough's green belt, though the majority of new development would fall within

Manchester council has thrown its weight behind the beleaguered regional masterplan for jobs and housing - despite uncertainty over its future.With no end in sight to the political standoff in Stockport, plans to approve the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) have been postponed in Salford, Trafford, Oldham, Rochdale and Bury.Councillors in Manchester were told this week that there was a ‘very high risk’ that the GMSF would not get the support it needed.Under the proposals the city

Oldham council has agreed to postpone its vote on the region’s controversial development masterplan to ‘review the options’ for the borough.The decision comes after it emerged the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) is likely to be rejected in Stockport after crunch talks with the opposition parties failed to reach agreement.Yesterday the combined authority issued a statement conceding that negotiations in the borough appeared to have come to the end of the road.The proposals for Oldham,

Rochdale council has postponed tonight’s crunch vote on the controversial Greater Manchester Spatial Framework.It comes after it emerged the long-term development masterplan is unlikely to be approved in Stockport after crisis talks failed.Local leaders yesterday issued a statement conceding that negotiations in the borough appeared to have come to the end of the road.Rochdale council’s cabinet approved the blueprint last week and it was expected to pass at tonight’s (November 25) full council

What do you think should happen to the GMSF? Leave your thoughts in our comments below Tory group leader Mike Hurlestone said while he was ‘delighted’ that High Lane had been removed from the proposals, it was ‘too little, too late’.He said: “We are sorely disappointed for the residents of Woodford, Heald Green, Woodley, Bredbury and Romiley that Labour have let them down and also not understood that small communities will have to take the brunt of mass development both in our borough and at

Trafford’s vote on Greater Manchester’s masterplan for development, jobs and the environment over the next 17 years has been postponed.The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) is the city-region’s plan until 2037 and 6,000 new homes are pencilled in for development in Trafford.The borough council’s executive was due to vote on the plans on November 30, but this has now been pushed back to December 8.For Trafford, the new GMSF shows over three quarters of all new homes are set to be built

Andy Burnham has written an open letter to people in Stockport making the case for the region’s controversial long-term development plan.The joint letter with Stockport council leader Elise Wilson says that more of the borough’s green belt will be put at risk outside the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF), than within it.However opponents of the scheme - including many of the ‘Save the Greenbelt’ groups - remain unconvinced.It comes after Stockport councillors last week voted to

Rochdale council leaders have recommended the latest version of the region’s long-term development masterplan for approval.The unanimous decision was made by cabinet members last night (Thursday).An extraordinary meeting of the full council is now due to vote on the controversial Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) next week.The much-delayed blueprint sets out where homes and businesses can be built over the coming 17 years, including a number of highly contentious green belt sites.Among

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more than double the national rate, the infection rate fell by 12%. But at 540.9 the town still has the second highest rate in Greater Manchester.