Extraordinary council meeting to take place in bid to REMOVE borough from Greater Manchester masterplan
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Oldham Liberal Democrats have called for an emergency meeting to withdraw the local authority from a ‘controversial’ Greater Manchester housing scheme.
At an extraordinary meeting due to take place on February 12, councillors will vote on whether to write to the Secretary of State to have Oldham removed from Places for Everyone.
Places for Everyone is a development plan across nine Greater Manchester boroughs, which pledges more than 170,000 new homes across the region - including 11,500 in Oldham.
But opponents have long raised concerns about the use of greenbelt land to fill that quota. The request follows a council spat that has rumbled on since August, after a review commissioned by councillors into the consequences of withdrawing from the scheme was rejected by a majority vote in the chambers.
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